Damilola Bamidele
Mobile Engineer with three years building and shipping production React Native applications
About
Mobile engineer with three years building and shipping production React Native applications for iOS and Android, from early-stage POC to live on the App Store and Play Store, used by thousands of people. Strong on secure mobile practices (biometric auth, encrypted storage, financial-grade payment flows), performance and battery optimization, offline-first data, and native Kotlin and Swift modules bridged into React Native. Comfortable owning the full release lifecycle, from store submission through compliance migrations and ongoing updates.
Experience
Software Engineer, Digitalization - Tolaram - Lagos, Nigeria
(2025-08)
- Own internal products end to end in React and Next.js, from stakeholder requirements through delivery, digitalizing manual business processes and reducing turnaround time and operational cost.
- Ship interfaces over live ERP and operational data, including Power BI dashboards and an AI-powered assistant (LangChain, Azure OpenAI) that cut information lookup from hours to seconds.
- Partner directly with business stakeholders to scope and deliver solutions, measured by adoption and the savings they produce.
Mobile Engineer (React Native) - Lights On Heights
(2024-02 - 2025-08)
- Reduced React Native app load time by 25% across Android and iOS, and built multi-language (i18n) support into the UI.
- Built real-time chat with end-to-end encryption and push notifications (APNs, FCM), plus camera capture and image upload flows.
- Authored native Kotlin and Swift modules for background location and bridged them into the React Native client; explored Kotlin Multiplatform for shared logic.
Software Engineer - Chevron
(2023-08 - 2024-02)
- Built responsive, reusable UI components against design specs, and supported component testing and documentation within an Agile team.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science - Ekiti State University Ado Ekiti, Nigeria

