Olamilekan Abiola

Lagos, NG

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Hi I'm Ola, a full stack engineer focused on shipping products end-to-end with extra attention to detail | building Batiwi & SwiftDrop

• Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Founding Associate (Technical) @Batiwi — building prediction markets for Nigerian users.

• Building SwiftDrop — a last-mile delivery platform covering a 1,791 km² region in Nigeria.

• Ship full-stack: Next.js + TypeScript on the frontend, Node.js + tRPC + PostgreSQL on the backend.

• Experienced leading teams and shipping products from ideation to deployment.

• Avid reader, writer, and learner.

Work Experience

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Batiwi

04/2026 - Present

Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Founding Associate (Technical)

Batiwi Nig Ltd (RC 9390070) is a Nigerian peer-to-peer prediction market platform. I lead full-stack architecture for the consumer web product and set up the engineering workflows the team ships against. Tech: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, React Query, Node.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL.
Full-time
Remote
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Auditbar

11/2023 - 03/2026

Senior frontend engineer

Built customer-facing features for an e-commerce platform end-to-end. Designed and shipped the inventory and discount systems from scratch. Implemented the entire storefront frontend, turning design specs into a faster, more user-friendly buying experience.
Remote
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GoCharge

10/2022 - 12/2023

Frontend engineer

Built responsive web applications in React, Next.js, and TypeScript using Material UI. Partnered closely with backend teams to define API contracts and ship features end-to-end across the stack.
Contract
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GymFit

02/2021 - 11/2022

Software engineer

Designed and implemented features from scratch in React. Set up the engineering foundations — linting, pre-commit and pre-push hooks — and introduced advanced React patterns and best practices to the team's workflow.
Remote

Herlabytes

09/2019 - 03/2021

Frontend engineer

Built responsive web applications with React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Worked closely with backend teams to define API contracts and ship clean, well-integrated frontend features.
Internship
Hybrid

Projects

SwiftDrop

2025 - Present

Last-mile delivery, built for Nigerian regions

Building a last-mile delivery platform covering a 1,791 km² region in Nigeria. Architected as a single Next.js application with role-based access control (RBAC) for three user types: customers, riders, and admins — from order placement through dispatch to delivery tracking. End-to-end on the stack: Node.js + tRPC API, Supabase Postgres, typed all the way to the UI.

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Startup
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
tRPC
Tailwind CSS
RBAC
Supabase

ShareYourTrueStory

2025

Share your real stories, earn from your words

A storytelling platform where users share real-life experiences and earn from their content. Built both the web platform and the admin dashboard end-to-end — chaptered story viewing, in-browser audio recording, document preview — on a Node.js + tRPC backend with Supabase storage and Postgres.

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Freelance
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
tRPC
Tailwind CSS
Supabase

NFON – New Face of Nollywood

2025

Celebrating the next generation of Nollywood talent

A platform for discovering and promoting emerging Nigerian film talent. Built both the public-facing web app and the admin dashboard for managing talent profiles, submissions, and content — Node.js + tRPC backend powering both surfaces from a single typed API.

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Freelance
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
tRPC
Tailwind CSS

Skills

TypeScript
JavaScript
React
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
ShadcnUI
React Query
Node.js
tRPC
PostgreSQL
Drizzle ORM
Supabase
Cloudflare
CI/CD
Figma

Education

Obafemi Awolowo University logo

Obafemi Awolowo University

2015 - 2022

BSc. Computer Science

Data Structures, Algorithms, Software Engineering, System analysis and design, Operating systems