Full stack developer / Nigeria / Available for projects

There is always a way.

Chukwuma Ukaha, in a black turtleneck with his arms folded, against a dark studio backdrop.

I build fast, search ready websites for service businesses. Two went live this year, in industries as far apart as oil and gas fabrication and French language teaching. One of them brought visitors from five countries on its first day.

Selected work

Four projects, four different problems.

Each one is written up properly, with the decisions, the alternatives I rejected, and the things that did not work. Not a screenshot and a list of technologies.


  1. 01 / Education

    Français Lingua Voyage

    An online French school taking enrolments through WhatsApp, with no way for a stranger to find it or trust it. Now a site that drew visitors from five countries on day one.

    Read the case study


  2. 02 / Oil and gas services

    GEE Expert Limited

    A welding and fabrication company with more than a hundred delivered projects and nothing online to show for any of them.

    Read the case study


  3. 03 / Backend engineering

    Embeddable Widget Platform

    Multi tenant lead capture that drops into any customer's website with one script tag, and cannot leak one tenant's data into another.

    Read the case study


  4. 04 / Applied AI

    Offline Cassava Advisor

    A farming advisor that runs with no internet at all, on an eight gigabyte laptop from 2015. Four language models tested, three rejected.

    Read the case study


What I do

The whole thing, not just the code.

Most developers hand you a build and leave the hard parts with you: what the site should say, who it is for, why anyone should trust it, and whether Google can find it. I do those parts too. A fast website that says the wrong thing to the wrong person is just a fast website.


Brand and positioning

Who the site is for, what it claims, and the logo, colour and type system that carries it. On both client sites this year I built the brand direction before writing a line of code.


Build

Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind. Static wherever the content allows it, which is why the sites load in well under a second on a Nigerian mobile connection and cost nothing to run.


Launch and handover

Domain, DNS, deployment, email routing, analytics, and a written handover document. You own the domain, the code and the hosting account when it is finished. That is not the norm in this industry and it should be.


“He does not simply do what he is told; he asks the right questions, points out what will not work, and proposes something better.”

Otta Enya Ifeanyichukwu

Managing Partner, Otta Enya & Co (Chartered Accountants)

Referred the GEE Expert Limited project

How I work


We agree what the site is for before anything gets designed.

Positioning, audience, and the one action you want a visitor to take. Written down and signed off before a pixel exists.


You see it section by section.

Nothing is a surprise at the end. You review each part as it is built and say what is wrong while it is still cheap to change.


You own what you paid for.

Most builds run two to four weeks depending on scope. At the end you get the domain, the repository, the hosting account and a handover document written for a non technical reader.


Contact

Tell me what you are trying to build.

I read every message myself. If it is a fit I will tell you, and if it is not I will tell you that too and point you somewhere better. Either way you will hear back within a working day.

hello@chukwumaukaha.com