Maya Okafor

Senior Frontend Engineer

I build fast, accessible interfaces and the design systems that keep them consistent. 8 years across startups and product teams.

maya@okafor.devokafor.devgithub.com/mayaoin/mayaoLisbon, Portugal

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer · Northwind
2022 – Present

Remote

Lead for the web platform and design system used across 6 product teams.

  • Shipped a token-driven design system adopted by every team, cutting UI bugs ~40%.
  • Drove Core Web Vitals work: LCP 3.1s → 1.4s on the marketing site.
  • Mentored 4 engineers; ran the accessibility guild (WCAG 2.2 AA).
Frontend Engineer · Belltower
2019 – 2022

Lisbon

  • Built the customer dashboard (React, TypeScript) from zero to 50k MAU.
  • Introduced visual regression + component testing, dropping regressions in prod.

Skills

Languages

TypeScript5 out of 5JavaScript5 out of 5HTML5 out of 5CSS5 out of 5

Frameworks

React5 out of 5Next.js4 out of 5Svelte3 out of 5

Craft

Design systems5 out of 5Accessibility5 out of 5Web performance4 out of 5

Milestones

  1. 2024

    Conf talk: “Tokens all the way down”

    Spoke at a 400-seat frontend conference.

  2. 2021

    Launched a11y-charts

    Open-sourced an accessible charting library (3.2k ★).

  3. 2017

    B.Sc. Computer Science

    University of Porto — focus on HCI.

References

“Maya raised the bar for the whole frontend org — and lifted everyone around her.”
D. Almeida · Eng Director, Northwind
“The most reliable engineer I’ve worked with. Ships, documents, mentors.”
R. Costa · Staff Engineer, Belltower

Get in touch

Address
Lisbon, Portugal
Email
maya@okafor.dev