About Me

Frontend engineer focused on owning and evolving complex product surfaces, building thoughtful, well-crafted interfaces in close collaboration with design and product.

Experience

Software Engineer

Cinder

05/2023 - Present

New York, NY

Cinder is a unified trust & safety operations platform that helps companies manage review workflows, investigations, and policy enforcement at scale.

  • Owned and led long-term frontend development across Cinder's most critical reviewer-facing surfaces, shaping product discovery and implementation through close collaboration with customers across core review, QA, and the Bolt design system.
  • Led an in-place visual refresh of the entire Cinder frontend in close partnership with design, rolling out changes safely behind feature flags and enabling the platform to support the company's transition from five-figure to multi-million-dollar enterprise deals.
  • Defined and delivered One Review, a unified experience that brings decision, review, and investigation workflows into a single cohesive surface shared across moderation flows.
  • Created and evolved Bolt, Cinder's component library and design system, establishing shared UI patterns and foundations that scaled frontend development across the application.

Software Engineer

DoorDash

06/2021 - 09/2022

San Francisco Bay Area

DoorDash is a global online food ordering and food delivery platform.

  • Took ownership of the login and signup web application, which was previously under-maintained and difficult to extend.
  • Redesigned core frontend architecture to increase developer velocity by ~60% and improve site performance by ~5% using React and TypeScript.
  • Shipped product experiments and user flow improvements that generated over $1M in annual revenue, including a Bypass Login feature resulting in a $700k lift.
  • Designed guided authentication flows that improved successful logins and signups by 2.7%.

Software Engineer II

Shape Security

02/2018 - 05/2021

San Francisco Bay Area

Shape Security provides best-in-class cybersecurity to protect your enterprise from automated attacks on web and mobile apps

  • Designed and developed features for Shape's web protection dashboard, enabling customers to configure security solutions and analyze real-time traffic and attack patterns.
  • Built supporting tooling and security-sensitive features, including automated reporting pipelines and protections such as domain whitelisting and session timeouts.

Technologies

ReactJS

TypeScript

Javascript

GraphQL

HTML / CSS

Python

Node.js

GCP

Java

Achievements

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (International Computer Science Honors Society)

Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America

Projects

Personal Website

https://www.obatola.com/

Designed personal website in Sketch and implemented using NextJS. Used as a location showcase my work and a quick place to spin up small test projects.

Website created to allow people roll sets of die.

  • Allows users to pick from a range of dice, customize color and save sets for use later
  • Created using React and hosted on github using gh-pages

Data Collection Website

tiny.cc/ve-collect

  • Website created to help users collect information about over 180 Venetian Bell Towers in Venice, Italy
  • Created using AngularJS interfacing with Firebase

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

08/2014 - 05/2018

GPA: 3.66 / 4

Courses

Software Engineering, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Design Concepts, Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Systems Programming, Privacy Protection Technology