Lagos · WAT (UTC+1)

Newton Ayomipo Emmanuel

Full-Stack Software Engineer Portfolio & Record Vol. IX

The engineer

I build fast, resilient web products — from the SvelteKit front end down to the server it runs on.

I'm a full-stack engineer and independent contractor. I've spent the last few years making heavy websites light: moving a high-traffic newsroom to a headless SvelteKit stack, shipping an AI-assisted Google Tag Manager product from Figma to production, and keeping e-commerce drops standing through sudden traffic surges. I'm most at home in Svelte and Python, and I care about what happens after deploy — caching, databases, and the box it all runs on.

Selected work

3 stories

Nigerian NewsDirect · Apr 2025 – Present

Making a newsroom fast without making it expensive

Led the technical rebuild of a high-traffic news site onto headless SvelteKit.

  • Migrated a high-traffic newspaper site from monolithic WordPress to a decoupled, headless SvelteKit front end.
  • Repurposed legacy WordPress as a dedicated backend CMS, serving content over GraphQL with The SEO Framework.
  • Cut Time to First Byte with aggressive edge-caching strategies.
  • SvelteKit
  • WordPress
  • GraphQL
  • PHP
  • Redis
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Leeos · Dec 2022

Surviving the drop

Kept influencer merch drops standing through sudden, massive traffic spikes.

  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Fly.io
  • PostgreSQL
  • PgBouncer
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The toolkit

Core in bold

Front end

  • Svelte / SvelteKit
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue
  • SolidJS
  • Qwik
  • Astro
  • GSAP
  • Figma to code

Back end

  • Python
  • Django / DRF
  • Node.js
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Starlette
  • NestJS
  • Express
  • PHP
  • GraphQL
  • REST / SOAP
  • RabbitMQ

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • DynamoDB
  • Meilisearch
  • PgBouncer

Infrastructure

  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Fly.io
  • Linux / VPS
  • Edge caching
  • Garage (S3)

AI

  • LLM APIs
  • Mastra
  • FastMCP
  • Pydantic AI
  • Scrapy / Selenium

Earlier

Since 2017
  1. Sep 2022

    InsureCert — Full-Stack Developer

    Features and maintenance across Web Components, Svelte, React and Angular front ends on a Django backend.

  2. Sep 2021 – Aug 2022

    IncMix — Front-End Developer

    Built ~70% of the component library powering a drag-and-drop website builder, then ported it from Svelte to SolidJS.

  3. Feb 2022 – Jul 2022

    Inspiration People — Front-End Developer

    A multi-tenant SvelteKit PWA with notifications, served across subdomains.

  4. Jul 2017 – Mar 2021

    Connection Computer College — Full-Stack Developer

    Built the exam-question intranet in Django and a fingerprint attendance system; taught HTML and CSS.

  5. 2010 – 2017

    University of Lagos — B.Sc. Actuarial Science

Correspondence

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