About

I build the whole visible thing.

Elasoru Solomon Ayodeji, a developer and creative technologist working from Nigeria. What I do sits between design and engineering: layout, type, components, state, and the small decisions that decide whether an interface feels considered or assembled.

Based: Nigeria
Working: Remotely, worldwide
Focus: Web products

The short version

Technical, not agency-trained. Self-directed, not self-declared.

I learned to build by shipping things that had real constraints rather than tutorials that had none. A storefront that needed product video to sell clothes. A research platform that had to show its own uncertainty. A feedback system for a school with no server budget and staff who needed a spreadsheet they already understood.

Each of those forced a decision I would not have made from a course: cut a feature, choose a smaller tool, admit a limitation in the interface. That is the part of development I find interesting: not the library choice, but the trade.

I work alone, which means I do the design, the front end, the data plumbing and the copy. It also means I only take on what I can finish. When something is unfinished, the work says so plainly. There is a project on this site labelled Paused, and it is labelled that for a reason.

Approach

Four things I try to hold to.

01
Start with what it has to do
The brief is a job, not a mood board. Once the job is clear, the layout usually argues for itself.
02
Design in the browser
Type sizes, spacing and breakpoints are decided against real content, not in a static mock that a phone will contradict.
03
Prefer the smaller solution
A static page beats a serverless function that exists for decoration. Fewer dependencies, fewer ways to break.
04
Write it down honestly
Status notes, limitations and unfinished features belong on the site, not hidden in a README nobody reads.

Capabilities

What I actually use, verified by the projects on this site.

Front end

React & Next.js
TypeScript
Semantic HTML & modern CSS
Tailwind CSS
Responsive layout
Accessibility fundamentals

Interfaces & motion

Design systems
Typography & hierarchy
Component architecture
Motion & micro-interaction
Form design & validation
Reduced-motion support

Data & integration

REST APIs
Express proxies
Supabase auth
Google Apps Script
localStorage state
CSV & JSON data

Tools & delivery

Git & GitHub
Vite
Vercel deployment
Performance budgeting
SEO metadata
Technical writing

Python appears here because of DEX and the PREDICTA engine. I do not claim backend or infrastructure depth beyond what those projects demonstrate.

So far

2025
First real builds
The FTC feedback system, a school project rebuilt as an actual web application with its own submission pipeline. Then DEX, a desktop voice assistant experiment.
2025–2026
Storefronts and clients' problems
ICEEIT: cart, wishlist, product video, nine routes, and a checkout honest about its limits. Promotional work for a gadget business in Computer Village.
2026
Research tools and concept work
PREDICTA, a forecasting workspace that treats prediction error as part of the design. VANTAGE, a nine-page corporate concept. Tolu's Space, a hospitality site built around photography.
Now
AYODEX Labs, version two
This site, a rebuild from scratch around a clearer, more editorial identity, with every project described at the stage it is actually in.