Raphael Lomotey Sr. Software Engineer

Current

I work as a Sr. Software Engineer at Shopify on the financial services team helping make commerce better for everyone.

Previous Projects

Meridian Port Services MPS operates Terminal 3 at Tema Port, Ghana’s main seaport. I designed and built a React Native app so freight forwarders could book container and truck visits instead of doing it on paper. It is used by more than 800 companies.
Stanbic Bank Stanbic is one of Ghana’s major commercial banks. I led design and front-end for a paperless JAMstack service used by about 300,000 customers — onboarding and account updates without a teller queue. Teller visits dropped by about 5%.
Ashesi University Ashesi is a private university in Ghana, known for a liberal-arts model that is unusual in the region. I designed the UX and built the front-end for a redesign of the university website.
Fidelity Bank Fidelity is a Ghanaian commercial bank. I redesigned their public website — UX and visual design for how the bank shows up online.
Central Securities Depository CSD runs post-trade services for Ghana’s financial market — the infrastructure that settles securities after they are bought and sold. I designed a portal for brokers, issuers, and investors.
ThumbsApp Built for Ghana’s Electoral Commission for the 2016 general election. I led design and front-end on a real-time results site covering 275 constituencies, using Vue.js, D3, and Sketch.
Slydepay Slydepay is a Ghanaian mobile payments company. I designed the merchant app so businesses that were not already on Slydepay could still accept Slydepay payments.
syp.nyc A New York congregation of about 10,000 members. I built and maintained their site in WordPress — custom theme, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript — from project-manager wireframes.

Volunteer

iTeach Taught 86 rural school teachers in Ghana how to use the internet, then trained them to teach others.
Junior Academy An 8-week HTML and CSS course for 16 students, ages 7 to 16.

More

You can email me, find me on LinkedIn, or see more of my code on GitHub.