Kenneth Ikechukwu

Software engineer · Bowie, Maryland

I build apps people pay for, and run them in production.

I'm Kenneth. I designed, built and run Wondara on my own: iOS and Android apps, a website, the API, payments, payouts and real-time calling. I work in TypeScript and React Native, and I build every day with Claude.

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982sign-ups in the first 12 weeks
845tickets issued
$5,800+sold at a single Dallas event
828pull requests merged

Wondara numbers from the live database, November 12, 2026.

Work

What I built, the problem it solved, and what happened.

Wondara

A social app for finding things to do and buying tickets, where fans can crowdfund an event before it happens. Live on iOS, Android and the web.

wondara.app App Store Google Play
Wondara home feed showing events near you Buying tickets in two taps Crowdfunding an event before it happens QR ticket scanned at the door
  • 982 sign-ups and 845 tickets in the 12 weeks after the August 2026 launch, with 21 organizers listing 29 events.
  • $5,800+ USD and CA$2,150+ in paid ticket sales through Stripe and Paystack, in 5 currencies, with payouts to hosts.
  • 160 paid tickets for one event in Dallas and 86 for one in Saskatoon, on checkout and payout flows I built end to end.
  • 0 of 11 Instagram buyers could pay. I traced it to the card form failing inside Instagram's in-app browser and shipped a hosted checkout path for in-app browsers.
  • 119 attendees checked in with the organizer scanner: QR tickets, Apple Wallet passes and a door-scanning app.
  • A checkout outage became a guardrail. After a schema change silently broke card checkout for 3 days, I added a startup check that fails the deploy when the payments schema drifts, plus scheduled live checkout tests.
React NativeExpoNext.jsNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLSupabaseStripePaystackCloudflareClaude API

Wondara Calls

Voice and video calling inside the app, built to work on weak mobile data.

  • $0 infrastructure cost: 1:1 and group calls on Cloudflare Realtime (SFU and TURN) within the free tier.
  • Rings like a phone call on iPhone through a native Swift module using CallKit and PushKit.
  • Group calls in event channels, with a join bar and notifications to members.
WebRTCSwiftCallKitCloudflare Realtime

Trust, safety and the founder dashboard

The tools that keep the platform honest and show me what is happening right now.

  • 3 false positives to 0 across all 1,068 accounts: impersonation protection that limits cold messages from accounts posing as celebrities and alerts me instantly.
  • 30-second live dashboard for sales, sign-ups, where new users came from, and errors.
  • 2,400+ automated tests in the API, and every app update reaches users within about 10 minutes of a merge.
VitestSentryPostgresCI/CD

Booking website for a mobile braider in Dubai

A client site where customers pick a style, book a slot, pay a deposit and upload proof of payment.

themobilebraiderdubai.pages.dev
The Mobile Braider Dubai booking website
  • Booking calendar with daily limits and closed days, deposits per style, and bank-transfer proof upload.
  • Admin panel where she edits styles, prices and photos, and switches between 8 seasonal themes.
Cloudflare PagesFunctionsD1JavaScript

Skills

What I use day to day.

Mobile and web

React Native, Expo, React, Next.js, Flutter, iOS and Android release, over-the-air updates

Backend and data

Node.js, Express, NestJS, REST APIs, webhooks, PostgreSQL, Supabase, row-level security, AWS, Cloudflare

Payments

Stripe Connect, Checkout and payouts, Paystack, multi-currency (USD, CAD, GBP, EUR, NGN)

AI

Claude API with tool calling, AI agents for support and operations, Claude Code with custom agents, skills and hooks

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Swift for native modules, Dart

Quality

Vitest, Sentry, CI/CD, Git, production monitoring, incident response

Experience

Jan 2026 – Present

Founder and Software Engineer, Wondara

Built and run the whole product alone: apps, website, API, database, payments, payouts and support.

Aug 2024 – Feb 2025

Mobile Developer Intern, Soft Code Innovations

Built iOS and Android features in Flutter, integrated REST APIs and took part in code reviews. Remote, Lagos.

Sep 2022 – Jul 2026

B.Sc. Software Engineering, Babcock University

Ogun, Nigeria.

Let's talk

Open to software engineering roles in mobile, full-stack and applied AI.

ike.kenneth77@gmail.com Download resume