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Hi, I’m Melissa Adu-Poku. I’m a frontend software engineer focused on building fast, accessible web and mobile apps with React and TypeScript. I enjoy turning complex requirements into delightful user interfaces and I’m energized by AI-driven workflows that boost engineering efficiency. Over the past 7+ years, I’ve built reusable design systems, integrated with REST and GraphQL APIs, and driven performance improvements while maintaining high test coverage. I collaborate across teams to deliver production-grade features and scalable architectures, and I mentor peers to raise code quality and engineering output.…Hi, I’m Melissa Adu-Poku. I’m a frontend software engineer focused on building fast, accessible web and mobile apps with React and TypeScript. I enjoy turning complex requirements into delightful user interfaces and I’m energized by AI-driven workflows that boost engineering efficiency. Over the past 7+ years, I’ve built reusable design systems, integrated with REST and GraphQL APIs, and driven performance improvements while maintaining high test coverage. I collaborate across teams to deliver production-grade features and scalable architectures, and I mentor peers to raise code quality and engineering output.

Melissa Adu-Poku

Front-End Developer, Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Melissa Adu-Poku. I’m a frontend software engineer focused on building fast, accessible web and mobile apps with React and TypeScript. I enjoy turning complex requirements into delightful user interfaces and I’m energized by AI-driven workflows that boost engineering efficiency. Over the past 7+ years, I’ve built reusable design systems, integrated with REST and GraphQL APIs, and driven performance improvements while maintaining high test coverage. I collaborate across teams to deliver production-grade features and scalable architectures, and I mentor peers to raise code quality and engineering output.…Hi, I’m Melissa Adu-Poku. I’m a frontend software engineer focused on building fast, accessible web and mobile apps with React and TypeScript. I enjoy turning complex requirements into delightful user interfaces and I’m energized by AI-driven workflows that boost engineering efficiency. Over the past 7+ years, I’ve built reusable design systems, integrated with REST and GraphQL APIs, and driven performance improvements while maintaining high test coverage. I collaborate across teams to deliver production-grade features and scalable architectures, and I mentor peers to raise code quality and engineering output.

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Hi, I’m Melissa Adu-Poku. I’m a frontend software engineer focused on building fast, accessible web and mobile apps with React and TypeScript. I enjoy turning complex requirements into delightful user interfaces and I’m energized by AI-driven workflows that boost engineering efficiency.

Over the past 7+ years, I’ve built reusable design systems, integrated with REST and GraphQL APIs, and driven performance improvements while maintaining high test coverage. I collaborate across teams to deliver production-grade features and scalable architectures, and I mentor peers to raise code quality and engineering output.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at MineralTree, Inc.

January 1, 2024 - June 1, 2025

Co-led the frontend modernization of the flagship legacy application, partnering across backend teams and aligning with evolving backend contracts to improve scalability and reduce production UI bugs by 45%. Migrated the legacy frontend to a React + TypeScript architecture, boosting app speed by ~69%. Built a reusable design system and component library used across product teams, cutting feature UI delivery time by 40% and ensuring UI uniformity. Collaborated on API design and integrated frontend apps with 20+ REST and GraphQL microservices, enabling scalable client-side caching and robust error handling. Implemented a comprehensive testing strategy with high-coverage unit and integration tests across hundreds of components and flows, and established CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for test automation and deployments, achieving high branch coverage and reducing regression incidents by 60%. Mentored junior engineers and participated in sprint planning and on-call production support.

Software Engineer at MineralTree, Inc.

January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2024

Co-led the development of financial dashboards, customer onboarding flows, and form-heavy workflows for internal operations and external customers. Designed frontend state management strategies aligned with backend data models to reduce redundant requests and improve performance. Participated in backend integration, debugging service-to-service communication issues and validating API contracts. Enhanced observability by improving structured logging and monitoring practices in collaboration with backend teams. Developed and maintained testing pipelines spanning unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage.

Software Intern at MineralTree, Inc.

October 1, 2018 - January 1, 2020

Developed a Django-based internal financial reporting and payments observability platform used across Operations and Finance to manage multi-million dollar monthly transactions. Designed and implemented REST API endpoints to support reporting workflows and integrations with Salesforce and other tools, reducing churn-related operational friction. Optimized complex MySQL queries supporting high-traffic financial reports, cutting average query time by ~55% and improving page load performance. Implemented downloadable financial reports to automate recurring reporting processes for customers.

Business Analyst at N12 Technologies, Inc.

August 1, 2016 - June 1, 2017

Automated sales fulfillment workflows using Salesforce + Zapier, reducing order processing time from hours to minutes.