OMONIWA®
— selected works
Things I’ve
Things I’ve
built lately.
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- Developed a cross-platform mobile app using React Native (Expo) + TypeScript, integrating Firebase Auth & Firestore with RevenueCat subscriptions for secure user management and premium feature gating.
- Engineered AI-driven features with Google Gemini API, including context-aware financial coaching, personalized smart swap suggestions, and AI-powered meal planning.
- Built a scalable architecture with server-side validation, clean API contracts, secure caching, and real-time subscription state synchronization.
Skills React Native · TypeScript · Expo · Firebase · Firestore · RevenueCat · Google Gemini API -
- Built an end-to-end ML pipeline processing 20GB+ of Toyota GR Cup telemetry data and engineering 31 domain-specific features from raw sensor streams.
- Trained and optimized an XGBoost regression model on 2,000+ racing laps, reaching 2.24s MAE (~1.8% error) in lap-time prediction.
- Architected modular preprocessing, chunked memory management, and API-ready outputs for React dashboards, reducing model training errors from 40s+ to under 3s.
Skills TypeScript · XGBoost · Python · ML Pipelines · Data Engineering · React · Telemetry Analytics -
- Engineered an AI-driven property analysis engine with Cloudflare Workers AI (Llama-3) for predictive maintenance insights and real-time health scoring.
- Developed a proprietary Health Scoring Algorithm using React useMemo and custom hooks for deterministic, high-performance data visualization.
- Built real-time synchronization with Firebase Firestore and Authentication, batch writes, optimistic UI updates, and a context-aware AI chatbot for service recommendations.
Skills Expo · React Native · TypeScript · Firebase · Cloudflare Workers AI · Llama-3 · Firestore -
- Designed a course management platform for an associate professor in the University of Alberta Department of Pharmacology using Django, Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Collaborated in a team of 6 using GitHub, Docker, and Selenium to support version control, deployment, and automated testing.
- Integrated filtering and tagging by course, semester, and exam type; adopted Cybera hosting and prototyped a cross-platform Electron desktop app.
Skills Django · Python · HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Docker · Selenium · Electron · Figma · UML -
- Developed a gesture recognition system using Google MediaPipe, achieving 96% accuracy across still images and live video feeds.
- Reached an average inference time of 167ms per frame for real-time gesture recognition.
- Implemented face landmark detection with facial mesh and blendshape scores, plus image rotation, resizing, normalization, color conversion, score thresholds, and label allowlist / denylist filtering.
Skills Python · MediaPipe · OpenCV · Computer Vision · Real-Time Inference -
- Worked with a team of 6 to develop an Android application for managing household inventory for insurance purposes.
- Used Java, Figma, and UML diagrams to design and implement reliable inventory workflows.
- Implemented unit and integration tests with JUnit, and used Firebase and GitHub for backend management and version control.
Skills Java · Firebase · JUnit · Figma · UML · GitHub · Android Development -
- Developed a full-stack web application using React, Redux, CSS, Node.js, MongoDB, and Firebase for movie discovery and search.
- Implemented robust search functionality using Fuse.js and integrated TMDB API to deliver accurate, up-to-date movie metadata.
- Built a scalable backend infrastructure with Node.js and MongoDB to store and manage user data and movie metadata efficiently.
Skills React · Redux · CSS · Node.js · MongoDB · Firebase · Fuse.js · TMDB API
— experience
Where I’ve
Where I’ve
shipped code.
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Feb 2026 — PresentSoftware Engineer — now
Microsoft · MAI Copilot Search- Working on the forefront of how millions of people interact with modern AI in their daily lives, shipping features inside Microsoft Copilot Search.
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May 2025 — Aug 2025
Software Engineer Intern
Microsoft- Built a custom date range picker with React, TypeScript, and Fluent UI, enabling flexible results filtering in MS Copilot AI Search.
- Replaced manual pagination with infinite scroll, improving usability and performance for 80M+ global users.
- Collaborated with PMs and senior engineers to refine product requirements and accelerated feature delivery by 20%.
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Feb 2025 — Apr 2025Research Assistant
University of Alberta- Automated job-data collection with a Python script integrating the Vicinity Jobs API.
- Optimized data processing with Pandas and NumPy, enabling structured CSV / Stata storage.
- Hardened logging and error handling for robust extraction with minimal downtime.
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May 2024 — Aug 2024Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon- Developed and deployed a deletion API (Java, Kotlin, AWS S3 / DynamoDB / SNS / SQS) for GDPR-compliant user-data removal.
- Automated manual ticket resolution, cutting Sev-2 incidents by 85%.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to design a compliance-driven data deletion pipeline.
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May 2023 — Aug 2023Software / Hydraulic Engineer Intern
Enbridge- Used Power BI & SQL to surface pipeline performance bottlenecks.
- Modeled hydraulic system automation in UML (MS Visio) for clearer workflows.
- Streamlined project tracking with Visual Basic in Excel + SharePoint.
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May 2022 — Aug 2022
Knowledge Management Analyst Intern
Enbridge- Built the HR Know repository on MS SharePoint, cutting search time by 40%.
- Improved internal web portals serving 10,000+ employees, boosting productivity ~30%.
- Modernized content organization across multiple HR departments.
JO ’26
— about
I design and build at the intersection of craft, code & people.
I’m Jesugbenga — most people just call me Gbenga. I’m a full-stack developer who cares as much about the pixels as the plumbing. I’ve shipped features used by tens of millions, built side projects from scratch, and love turning fuzzy ideas into things you can actually click, tap and use.
Python · Java · Kotlin · JavaScript · TypeScript · C · C# · C++ · SQL · NoSQL · R · HTML · CSS · Dart · Go · Visual Basic
React.js · Next.js · AngularJS · Redux · Node.js · JUnit · .NET · Django · PyTorch · NumPy · Flutter · Docker
AWS · MS Azure · Firebase · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · Selenium · Spring Boot · Power BI · Figma · MediaPipe · VS Code · IntelliJ
OOP · Agile · UML · REST APIs · Electron · Data Analysis · DSA · CI/CD · Git / GitHub · MS Office · SharePoint
Software Engineer @ Microsoft on the MAI Copilot Search team. Recently graduated CS @ University of Alberta — always open to interesting collaborations.
Got an idea?
I’m listening.
jesugbengao@gmail.com
Vancouver, British Columbia — Canada