Front-End Developer

Dennis
Nleya

Years shipping production web apps end to end. Based in the Greater Toronto Area — open to roles in Canada and remote in the US.

01 — Experience

8+ years
shipping code.

Work history, most recent first. Row height reflects duration in role across 8+ years of production experience.
Year Company / Place Role
2025 www.dennisnleya.ca Canada Independent – Front-End Developer
2024 www.Lovejoy.Health United States Frontend Developer (remote)
2022 deeplearning-cafe.com South Africa Frontend Developer
2018 Horlobyte Systems Zimbabwe · @horlobyte Junior Web Developer

// row height = time in role · four countries, no gaps

02 — Selected work

Built and shipped,
all live.

  1. Zanith CHC

    NHS Continuing Healthcare advisory platform, UK.

    Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase · Tailwind

    • Multi-step enquiry intake with magic-link save-and-resume, routed to a staff dashboard with postcode-based service areas.
    • Built for UK health-data compliance: Supabase Postgres (London region), signed-URL storage, Supabase Auth with 2FA, to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  2. CareBreak

    Respite-care booking platform, UK care sector.

    Next.js 15 · TypeScript · Supabase · Tailwind

    • Nine-phase booking platform connecting unpaid carers with DBS-verified care workers, built to WCAG 2.2 AA and GDPR self-serve standards.
    • Compliance layer covering DBS verification tracking and Care Act safeguarding taxonomy, plus PWA support, dark mode and i18n scaffolding.
  3. AEN

    Agricultural marketplace PWA, Zimbabwe.

    React · Firebase / Firestore · Recharts · PWA

    • Offline-capable PWA connecting smallholder farmers to markets, pricing data and joint-venture opportunities, with an onboarding flow modelled on the organisation's official farmer questionnaire.
    • Marketplace of farmer listings, admin dashboard, Recharts-based price index and live conditions via the Open-Meteo API.
  4. Sango

    Hospitality operator platform, Zimbabwe.

    Next.js · TypeScript · Firebase · Tailwind · Claude API

    • Platform for lodges, hotels, restaurants and safari operators, combining social media management, review monitoring and content scheduling.
    • Built as a two-app monorepo — a public client site and a separate operator dashboard — over a shared Firebase backend and typed data layer.
    • AI operator tooling via the Anthropic Claude API — drafted replies across a unified social inbox (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) and one-click caption generation.

03 — AI

Built with AI.
Ships AI.

AI runs through both how I build and what I ship. Day to day I develop with AI coding agents — driven from written specs and standing briefs, run in parallel across isolated git worktrees, and reviewed before anything lands. I also build AI into the products themselves: Sango's operator app uses the Anthropic Claude API to draft replies across a unified social inbox and generate post captions. On the side, I trained an English Premier League match predictor — a Random Forest over 25 seasons of data — served through a live Streamlit dashboard.

04 — About

How I work.

I build and ship complete web products — from an ambiguous brief through design, frontend, backend, auth and deployment. I'm self-taught, and I've worked across three countries: agency client work in Zimbabwe, front-end product work in South Africa, and fifteen months remote with a US health company. Most recently I've been building independently — care-sector, agriculture and hospitality platforms, all live. I come from a design background too — comfortable in Figma and the Adobe suite — and I take designs to pixel-accurate React myself, so what ships matches what was drawn.

What I care about: accessibility that's built in rather than retrofitted, interfaces that stay fast on bad connections, and shipping things people actually use — increasingly with AI coding agents doing the heavy lifting under a tight review bar.

05 — Contact

Open to front-end and full-stack roles — Canada and US-remote.