DavidOkwaisie

About

A little bit about
my story.

David Okwaisie

I studied Finance and Business Information Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating summa cum laude. Although I enjoyed finance, what truly invigorated me was watching ideas take shape, infrastructure come together, and systems align into solutions with real world impact that empowered people.

I taught myself to code. To me, design engineering is a seamless confluence of artistry, user-centric functionality, and technical precision. What started as curiosity grew into a career building production systems across web, mobile, and cloud infrastructure. Customer-facing applications, design systems, booking platforms, internal tooling, and everything in between. I love solving problems that matter to real people and seeing the full picture of how everything connects, from the architecture underneath to the experience on the surface. My curiosity about how things work, combined with a genuine care for why they are being built, is what drives me.

Outside of work, I'm usually on a soccer pitch, hiking a trail, hunting for great cinema or music, traveling or learning something esoteric.

Based
Austin, Texas
Focus
Web · Mobile · Systems
Since
2018

Tools & stack

Languages

What I reach for first

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Dart
  • Rust
  • MQL
  • SQL
Frontend

Building delightful and extensible interfaces

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue.js
  • Vite
  • Redux
  • Nuxt.js
  • Gatsby
  • Remix
  • Storyblok
  • UI libraries
Mobile

Shipped to App Store & Google Play Store

  • React Native
  • Flutter
  • Expo
  • Fastlane
  • Iterable
  • Stream
Backend & Data

API design, data modeling, and service integration

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Firebase
  • Supabase
  • Flask
  • TanStack
  • Federated GraphQL
  • Websockets
  • gRPC
Infrastructure & Testing

Deployment, pipelines, and full test coverage

  • Vercel
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Netlify
  • CI/CD
  • Jest
  • Playwright
  • MSW
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
Tooling & AI

Agentic workflows and design-to-code tooling

  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • Claude Design
  • Codex
  • Figma
  • MCP
  • Turborepo