Maya Okafor
Senior product engineer · Lisbon
Summary
Product engineer with eight years on checkout, booking and payments: pricing, latency, and the edge cases that lose orders.
Experience
Halden Pay · Senior product engineer
- Responsible for checkout performance and pricing. Cut checkout latency from 480 ms to 90 ms by moving pricing to the edge.
- Led four engineers through the move from server-rendered checkout to a typed React app.
- Shipped saved payment methods, so repeat orders skip two steps.
Brightline Studio · Product engineer
- Built the booking flow used by 40 clinics and cut no-shows with SMS reminders.
- Wrote the design-token pipeline the studio still ships with.
Skills
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, edge functions, Stripe, accessibility, design systems