Newton Ayomipo Emmanuel

Lagos, Nigeria

• 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.
• Implemented Incremental Static Regeneration in SvelteKit to balance static speed with minute-by-minute news updates.
• Built and maintain the automated pipeline that delivers paid daily e-newspaper editions to subscribers.
• Run the full stack — PHP, Redis, Meilisearch and Garage (self-hosted S3) — on a single 6 GB VPS.

Remote · Contract

• Architected and built TagRabbit, a Google Tag Manager configuration SaaS, from Figma designs to production.
• Built a responsive drag-and-drop interface in SvelteKit that simplifies complex GTM workflows.
• Wrote the engine that turns visual drag-and-drop elements into valid GTM variables, tags and triggers deployed via API.
• Integrated Stape.io for server-side tracking, improving data accuracy and privacy compliance.
• Led a product pivot adding natural-language GTM configuration via LLMs (Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter).
• Designed the backend on Django, DRF, Redis and RabbitMQ, orchestrating LLM calls with Mastra and FastMCP.

Remote · Contract

• Built cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS and Fly.io that absorbed spikes of tens of thousands of requests per second during merch drops.
• Eliminated overselling race conditions in limited-stock drops using transactional strategies with PostgreSQL, PgBouncer and Redis.
• Integrated REST and SOAP APIs for checkout and worldwide delivery logistics.
• Chose frameworks per campaign across a Python and JavaScript stack.