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Knock, knock

Come on in. The websites don't bite.

Well, only the bugs bite, and I squashed every one of them. Ready to look around?

Wait, really?

15+ live products across Nigeria, the UK, Canada and the USA — and not one of them has caught fire. Give me 10 seconds of scrolling, I promise it's worth it.

Alright, your loss. Mind telling me why?

Meet Odunayo

Let's create magic together

I build, customize and maintain websites for businesses, organizations and digital products.

My work sits between visual implementation and practical engineering. I am comfortable working inside WordPress and page builders, then dropping into PHP, JavaScript and CSS when the problem needs more than a visual editor.

Full-Stack Web Developer and Web Designer with 5+ years of experience building and maintaining digital products for clients across Nigeria, the UK, Canada and the USA.

Odunayo Bolarinwa

My journey

First

Website Design.

GenM apprenticeship, 2018 — my start in web.

Then

Freelance Development.

Shipping for international clients on Upwork since 2021.

Today

I bridge design and code.

Founder, Odgrande Digital — 15+ live products across Nigeria, the UK, Canada and the USA.

Let's create website magic

Let's create website magic.

Whatever the brief — a brand-new WordPress build, an e-commerce store, or a digital product that needs to feel alive — I'd love to help build it.

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Experience

Odgrande Digital

2023

Built and operate a digital product agency behind 15+ live products across Nigeria, the UK, Canada and the USA, leading projects from discovery and visual direction through development, deployment and ongoing support across e-commerce, entertainment, SaaS, NGO and corporate work.

CULTUR FM

2024

Built and maintained CULTUR FM's official digital platform end to end, and engineered CULTUR FM Tickets, a custom multi-event ticketing and gate-validation plugin with QR-coded PDF tickets, Stripe, Apple Pay and Paystack checkout, and a staff check-in portal. Also built CFM Waitlist, a bespoke event-management plugin that runs each event's waitlist, ticket sales, free sign-up and sold-out states, with a custom subscriber database, GDPR consent capture, CSV export and bulk email tools, plus a webhook plugin that feeds website forms straight into Google Sheets.

Snap and Stem Creative Studio

2025

Engineered the studio's digital presence from scratch across photography portfolio, booking and WooCommerce commerce, integrating FunnelKit, Moneris, Apple Pay and Google Pay with custom delivery and tipping logic.

Waldroid Consult

2024

Led web development for a UK-based business consultancy across client websites and digital infrastructure through a six-month engagement, owning implementation, debugging and client-facing support.

BLASTFEST

2023

Design and maintain the official website for a Seattle Afrobeats music festival, with recurring annual redesigns and campaign pages built around each event cycle.

The 234 Project Foundation

2022

Designed and continue to maintain the foundation's digital presence since 2022, structuring content and interfaces around its community outreach programmes.

Daffodils Africa

2023

Built and continue to maintain a purpose-built website for an Africa-focused organisation, shaping its online identity around its broader mission.

OrangeBee Money Global

2020

Led digital design for a US-based fintech company over a five-year engagement, managing its website, visual identity and digital marketing assets.

Upwork

2021

Delivered web development and design projects for international clients across multiple industries, handling everything from brief through implementation, revisions and deployment.

Reterdeen

2019

Based in Lagos, Nigeria. Joined a 6-person editorial team as an editor and was promoted to Senior Editor within a month, going on to lead the team, oversee editorial content strategy from concept to publication across written and visual formats, and mentor and manage the junior editorial staff, driving consistency and quality across all output.

Education

Diploma in Cloud Engineering

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Osun State Polytechnic, Iree

Studied marketing fundamentals that now inform how I approach client briefs and conversion-focused web design.

Paragon Institute of Computer Studies

Foundational training in computer engineering and IT management principles.

GenM Digital Marketing School, Canada

2018

Apprenticeship-style training in digital marketing fundamentals.

GenM

2018

Apprenticeship-style training in website design, the starting point for a full-time move into web development.

Toolkit

HTML5CSS3JavaScriptReactPHPPythonDjangoLiquidNode.jsREST APIsNeonPostgreSQLVercelWordPressWooCommerceShopifyWebflowFramerElementorStripeMonerisFunnelKitApple PayGoogle PayFigmaUI/UXGraphic DesignVisual IdentityAdobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopClaude APIAI Chat InterfacesEmail AutomationMailOptin

Certifications

IBM — Digital Nation – Web Development BadgeIBM — HTML & CSS CertificateAcadium — Apprenticeship, One by One Design (India)Acadium — Apprenticeship, OrangeBee Money Global (FL, USA)Acadium — Apprenticeship, The Miranda Team (Keyes Company)
Designer Of The Year award

Designer Of The Year

In Their Words

Straight from the inbox: what clients wrote back after their site was handed over.

We love it from the very first look! The design looks amazing, clean, and exactly what we envisioned. This is what really matters — bringing our vision to life. Great work! Looking forward to the next phase.
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I just wanted to say a big thank you for delivering the Youzed Interiors website. We've reviewed everything, and we're really impressed with the final result. The site looks amazing, clean, modern and perfectly captures our brand and the kind of spaces we create. The whole process was smooth and professional from start to finish.
UzoFounder, Youzed Interiors
Odunayo understood the energy we wanted for Blast Music Fest and translated it into the website perfectly. Everything felt intentional, from the visuals to the event information. He was patient with our changes and delivered something we were genuinely proud to put out there.
Blast Music FestEvent / Entertainment
Working with Odunayo was a smooth experience. He took our ideas, cleaned them up and turned them into a website that actually felt like our brand. What impressed me most was how quickly he understood what we were trying to achieve without needing everything explained ten times.
1Seven4Brand / Business
We needed more than just a good-looking website. We needed something practical that could support our recruitment operations. Odunayo paid attention to the details, understood the functionality we needed and built a platform that gave the business a much more professional presence.
Addoz Integrated ResourcesRecruitment / HR
Odunayo brought a lot of attention to detail to the project. From the layout to the mobile experience, he kept looking at the little things that most people would overlook. The result was a website that felt much more polished and aligned with how we wanted the brand to be presented.
Daffodils AfricaNGO / Non-profit

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What's next?

Let's work together.

Have a WordPress build, e-commerce store or digital product in mind? Let's talk about it.

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Hold up — don't go yet

Leaving without dropping your genius idea here is basically a crime against innovation.

(Not a real crime. Please don't call the police.) Tell me what you're dreaming up — a website, an app, a wild 2am idea — and I'll turn it into something real.

Go on then, impress me.