6+ years
Senior software engineering experience across product teams, client work, operational platforms, and personal products.
Shuaib Abdulgafar
Software engineer building full-stack web and mobile products.
I am frontend-leaning, but comfortable owning backend APIs, data modelling, testing, deployment, app-store release, and AI-enabled product workflows.
Web and mobile
Full-stack web delivery with React, Next.js, Remix, Node.js, PostgreSQL, plus React Native and Expo mobile releases.
AI-assisted delivery
I use Claude, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI APIs for exploration, implementation, refactoring, testing, and product iteration.
Technical profile
The stack I use to ship across product surfaces.
Frontend
ReactNext.jsRemixReact RouterTailwind CSSRedux Toolkit
Backend and data
Node.jsREST APIsGraphQLWebSocketsPrismaPostgreSQLCloudflare Workers
Mobile
React NativeExpoApp Store releaseGoogle Play release
AI and tooling
OpenAI APIsClaudeCodexGitHub Copilot
Testing
PlaywrightVitestJestReact Testing Library
Content and commerce
ContentfulStrapiShopify Hydrogen
Experience
Production experience across web, mobile, data-heavy systems, and AI-enabled software.
Volomn
2022 - Present
Senior Frontend Engineer
Build full-stack web and mobile products with Next.js, Node.js, React Native, Expo, CMS/commerce integrations, app-store release, and operational platforms including data-heavy streetlight management workflows.
ReactSquad
2024 - 2025
Senior Software Engineer
Owned client features end-to-end across Remix and Next.js applications, covering frontend architecture, Node.js services, Prisma/PostgreSQL workflows, tests, releases, Cloudflare Workers, and OpenAI-enabled client software.
AFEX
2021 - 2022
Frontend Engineer
Led frontend engineering for Nigeria's pioneer online commodity trading platform, including real-time trading dashboards, WebSockets, GraphQL, Redux, code review, mentoring, and production stability work.
HealthStation
2020 - 2021
Frontend Engineer
Built responsive React healthcare workflows integrated with backend services for platforms supporting more than 200,000 patients monthly, with accessible interfaces and Jest coverage.
Case studies
Personal products and product case studies.
Current products that show how I think about product direction, frontend quality, fullstack delivery, and AI-assisted execution.
01
A WhatsApp-first prayer reminder companion for Muslims, with location-aware reminders, natural pause/resume flows, and optional Sunnah fasting and Jumu'ah preparation reminders.
- Role
- Founder and fullstack builder
- Stage
- Live product
- Product focus
- Messaging, reminders, onboarding, retention
- Problem
- Make prayer reminders useful inside a channel people already use instead of asking them to adopt another app.
- Ownership
- Own product direction, onboarding, scheduling logic, reminder flows, and full-stack implementation.
- Technical scope
- Next.js, Supabase, location-aware scheduling, Meta WhatsApp API, backend integrations, and product copy.
AI workflow
Used AI-assisted workflows to shape flows, reason through WhatsApp integration edge cases, scaffold implementation paths, and tighten product copy.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSSupabaseOpenAI APIMeta WhatsApp API
02
A tournament management product for table tennis teams, covering players, competitions, event categories, audience-facing draws, and results.
- Role
- Solo product builder
- Stage
- Active build
- Product focus
- Tournament operations and live clarity
- Problem
- Give table-tennis organizers a clearer way to run draws, schedules, event categories, and results.
- Ownership
- Own product design, frontend implementation, backend workflows, player flows, and audience-facing clarity.
- Technical scope
- Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase, tournament data modelling, draws, and live result workflows.
AI workflow
Use Codex heavily for implementation loops, component refactors, state modeling, and turning rough tournament workflows into shippable UI.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSSupabase
03
A blood donation platform designed to make donation needs easier to discover, coordinate, and act on for donors, hospitals, and donation centres.
- Role
- Product engineer
- Stage
- In development
- Product focus
- Healthcare coordination and donor engagement
- Problem
- Reduce the friction around discovering, coordinating, and acting on blood donation needs.
- Ownership
- Shape the product model, donor and hospital workflows, web interface, mobile surfaces, and backend data flows.
- Technical scope
- Next.js, Node.js, Supabase, Postgres, React Router, TypeScript
AI workflow
Use Claude and Codex to break down ambiguous product requirements, explore data flows, and iterate quickly.
Next.jsReact RouterTypeScriptTailwind CSSReact NativeSupabasePostgres
Writings
Essays, notes, and personal reflections.
I keep the human bits visible too: life reviews, random thoughts, travel notes, and the occasional lesson from Sapa.
20267 min read
2025: Minutes of my meeting with SAPA
Severe Absence of Purchasing Ability, or simply put — Sapa is a great financial tutor, as I've come to learn over the past few weeks.
20247 min read
2024
I went into 2024 without having huge expectations, I hoped to get my finances up, get married, and hopefully stay alive till the year ends. A little bit macabre, yes I know, I just try to remain conscious about my mortality as much as I can.
September 19, 20237 min read
My first travel by air
Early this year was the first time I would travel by air, the tech team of AFEX were going on a retreat to Akwa Ibom State, sweet. The flight was slated for 12 o' clock and we must have checked-in one hour before
September 18, 20234 min read
Human beans.
I'll start with an "interesting" story told to me a former co-worker. The event happened in Jos, Nigeria, while the region was rife with religious and ethnic clashes.