About Me

Hi, I am Ekene. I work as a Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. With the rest of the my team, we build processes and create content to ensure that our product, messaging, open-source repos, and integrations are world-class. All our efforts are geared towards ensuring that developers have a great experience while working with Netlify.

  • Talks
    • I love to speak at events and conferences to share and interact with wider community of developers all over the world. Here are slides to some of my past conference talks.
  • Articles

    • In my attempt to continue to support the next generation of software engineers. I write technical articles to teach web development concepts and best practices. Here are some of my popular articles

    GraphQL - The Good and the Bad

    GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API as well as gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more

    5 Ways to Convert React Class Components to Functional Components w/ React Hooks

    In the latest alpha release of React, a new concept was introduced, it is called Hooks. Hooks were introduced to React to solve many problems as explained in the introduction to Hooks session however, it primarily serves as an alternative for classes. With Hooks, we can create functional components that uses state and lifecycle methods

    How to build an ecommerce site with Strapi, Vue.js, and Flutterwave

    As a frontend developer, I was excited by how fast I could build backend services that communicate effortlessly with my frontend application using Strapi. So I used it to build an ecommerce site with Vue.js and Flutterwave. Read all about it

    Building a Jamstack Food Ordering App with Strapi, Gridsome & Snipcart

    This series will walk you through the processes of setting up your own Jamstack food ordering application and by extension any e-commerce app using modern development tools like Strapi, Gridsome and Snipcart

    The State of Payments In Africa - (Nairobi, Kenya)

    The payments ecosystem in Africa has evolved over time. We've gone from a cash-only society to an instant global payment system. In this talk, I discussed the transitional process that brought us here and how the current state of making/receiving payments in Africa has given us a share of the global economy.

    Accessibility first approach for product development - (Kampala, Uganda)

    In this presentation, I talked about the need for building products with accessibility in mind. You will also learn the business values accrued to building for all user groups and how to go about it.

    Building Customizable Checkout Experiences - (Lagos, Nigeria)

    At the Google Developer Group summit in Lagos, I presented on this topic to help attendees better understand how to build diverse checkout experiences and customize them to suit their different user needs using Flutterwave

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