Adeyemi Ilori
Design Engineer | Lead Creative Designer | Full-Stack Web & AI-Assisted Product Shipping (7+ Years)
7 yrs experience · Lagos, Nigeria · <10 hrs/week
About
Design Engineer with 7+ years of experience building and shipping full web products end to end—moving from creative design into live application development without a separate dev team. Built 90+ websites (20+ live) and shipped 4 full web apps using AI-assisted build tools (Lovable, Supabase, Cursor, Claude). Leads creative at Wakanow, where a design system revamp drove +110% engagement growth and campaign work lifted sales by 40%. Strong blend of design leadership, UX/UI systems, frontend implementation, and conversion-focused product delivery.
Skills
Experience
- Lead Creative Designer · Wakanow09-01-2022
Lead all creative across brand identity, digital campaigns, email marketing, landing pages, and travel centre branding, and design and build the web touchpoints that carry the brand. Led the 2022 design system revamp across social, digital, and OOH, driving +110% engagement (2022) and +100% (2023). Conceptualised and executed the Black Friday Travelfest campaign in 2022, driving +40% sales, followed by Travelfest: Unleash in 2023 with a further +20%. Designed and built campaign landing pages and conversion flows for digital and offline deployment. Refreshed travel centre and customer touchpoint branding, contributing to +50% footfall and +30% in- centre sales. Designed and executed high volume email campaigns via Netcore with segmentation and performance tracking.
- Founder & Creative Director · Techsly01-01-2017
Run a web design and build studio specialising in premium beauty and fashion e-commerce systems. Designed and built 90+ websites across the portfolio, with 20+ currently live, owning design, frontend, and SEO. Build full products using AI assisted tools alongside WordPress and modern frontend stacks.
- Email Marketing Manager & Creative Designer · Konga Online Shopping Ltd11-01-2019 – 04-01-2023
Managed email and social creative across five Konga business units: KongaPay, Konga Travel, Konga Bulk, Konga Fashion, and Konga Food. Delivered co-branded campaigns for partners including Intel, Samsung, Hennessy, HP, Unilever, and Coca-Cola.
- Creative & Website Designer · Medicliq Healthcare10-01-2020 – 10-01-2021
Designed, developed, and maintained the company website and contributed UX screens for the mobile app. Built Medicliq's brand identity and digital assets across its Nigeria and UAE operations.
Education
- The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, SakiHND, Banking & Finance
- Kwara State Polytechnic, IlorinND, Banking & Finance
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