Saviour Ise Okhuoya

I am Saviour Ise Okhuoya, a frontend engineer working remotely out of Nigeria. I use code to solve problems and build business solutions, which in practice has meant eight products across fintech, energy, education, food delivery and sales, and being handed the technical direction on four of them.

The pattern in my history is that I get in the door and then outgrow the role. I joined TYNCAD as an intern in July 2022, was full-time by October and CTO by January, six months in, where I set the architecture and led the team. The same thing happened at Encentrals, intern to full-time in seven months, and at HNG, intern to apprentice in two, out of a programme designed to lose most of the people who enter it.

The work I care most about is the work nobody asked for. Autopilot pays your bills in priority order so the important ones clear when money is tight. Tally tracks what I have earned and invoices for it. FlavorFinder answers what to eat. use-timed-flow is on npm because I needed a hook that did not exist. Each one started as something I wanted, which is the only reason any of them got finished.

Alongside that: a First Class degree in Science and Laboratory Technology from the University of Benin, and best graduating student in Physics and Electronics Techniques. I came to software from electronics, which is probably why I would rather understand the whole system than only my layer of it.