Femi Oye
@femioye
Senior design engineer bridging UI/UX and frontend code to deliver fast, pixel-perfect digital products.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Design Engineer with nearly a decade of experience building and shipping digital products across fintech, HR tech, and social impact tech. I own features end-to-end—from first sketch to production—so what ships is faster, looks exactly as intended, and doesn’t get stuck in design-engineering back-and-forth.
At VC4A, I’ve shipped an AI-powered mentor matching feature, rebuilt messaging end-to-end to eliminate longstanding UX bugs, and led the design and frontend work for a venture reporting tool that helps investors and founders track progress with structured, data-backed clarity. I also built and owned the design system across Figma and Storybook, creating a single source of truth for components and interaction patterns that accelerated team delivery.
Earlier, at REACH, I reduced sign-up time by 25% and cut new-user support issues by 50% by overhauling onboarding and making top features more discoverable. I also redesigned the app for 75,000+ users, helped power spending insights across major African markets, and designed a loan feature used by about 50% of monthly active users—backed by an engineering background that strengthens my systems thinking.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Design Engineer
VC4A
May 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)
Shipped an AI-powered mentor matching feature that curates mentor shortlists based on founder-provided problem context. Rebuilt the messaging experience end-to-end to resolve long-standing UX bugs and designed a venture reporting tool to help investors and founders track progress with structured data.
Mentor
Ladder Tech Platform
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)
Mentored a small cohort of early-career designers through personalised 1-on-1 calls, covering product (UI/UX) design fundamentals and career development.
Product Designer & Design System Lead
VC4A
Aug 2021 - Apr 2025 (3 years 8 months)
Built and owned a design system in Figma and Storybook, creating a single source of truth for components and interaction patterns to accelerate team delivery. Led end-to-end mentorship marketplace design and delivered a venture dashboard and valuation tool; also ran a platform-wide UX audit to reduce friction and user confusion.
Frontend Developer & Designer
VC4A
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 4 months)
Championed Figma adoption across the team to establish a collaborative, scalable design workflow. Designed and built role-specific dashboards and owned a redesign of the onboarding flow to improve user profiling and tailor offerings for different user segments.
Product Designer (Frontend)
REACH
Feb 2018 - Feb 2020 (2 years)
Reduced sign-up time by 25% and cut new-user support issues by over 50% by overhauling onboarding and making top features more discoverable. Designed and redesigned the REACH app (75,000+ users; 10M+ transactions) including spending insights, and shipped a loan feature used by roughly 50% of monthly active users.
Mentor & Instructor
Dufuna
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)
Taught a class to ~30 recent university graduates covering UX design and CSS as part of a structured software development bootcamp.
Junior UI Developer
SeamlessHR
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 5 months)
Contributed to the design and development of an enterprise HR management and payroll system used by leading banks, FMCGs, and multinationals across Africa. Helped create the first version of the company’s learning management system.
Graphics Designer
TEDxIfe
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year)
Created promotional designs for TEDxIfe across print, social media, and web.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Obafemi Awolowo University
Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering
2010 - 2016
Completed a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, strengthening systems thinking and analytical skills applied to product design and building.
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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