Daniel Chukwurah
Afrinvest West Africa - Senior Software Developer
Lagos, Nigeria
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I am a Senior Software Developer with over six years of experience building secure, scalable, and user-friendly web and mobile applications across fintech, banking, and open-source communities. I specialise in React, Next.js, React Native, and TypeScript and have a strong track record of delivering products used by millions across West and Central Africa.
My work is at the intersection of technology, security, and human experience. Beyond my full-time job, I contribute to open-source projects like CHAOSS and WISDOM, where I help develop tools for ethical governance, impact measurement, and decentralised reputation systems.
I care deeply about building things that are not just functional, but also thoughtful; systems that are secure, inclusive, and designed to serve people well. I am also a published writer and advocate for ethical AI, accessibility, and responsible innovation in fast-moving environments.
Whether I am writing code or sharing ideas on stage, my goal is the same: to make technology more human, more impactful, and more equitable, one thoughtful decision at a time.
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The Role of Design Systems in Agile Development: Speeding Up Delivery
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, Agile teams face constant pressure to ship features quickly without sacrificing quality or consistency. Without a design system, teams risk duplicated effort, inconsistent user experiences, and slower iteration.
This talk explores how design systems transform Agile workflows by providing reusable components, reducing design-developer handoff friction, and enabling faster feature releases. Drawing from my experience building Afrikit, Afrinvest’s in-house design system that cut design-developer handoff times by 60% and boosted release cycles by 40%, I’ll share practical lessons on integrating design systems into Agile environments.
We’ll also examine real-world case studies like Slack’s Slack Kit and Airbnb’s DLS, which demonstrate how design systems improve cross-platform consistency, scale rapidly, and accelerate delivery.
Key takeaways for attendees:
How to integrate design systems seamlessly into Agile workflows.
Proven methods for reducing development bottlenecks and handoff delays.
Real-world strategies for scaling design consistency across teams and platforms.
Lessons from Afrikit, Slack, and Airbnb on accelerating product delivery.
Whether you’re a developer, product manager, or designer, this session will show how design systems can help your team deliver better, faster, and more scalable products.
Rethinking Digital Accessibility as a Security Issue
Accessibility is often treated as a nice-to-have or a compliance checkbox, but what if it’s also a security issue? In this talk, I will make the case that inaccessible design creates more than just friction: it opens up hidden risks. From CAPTCHA barriers that lock out legitimate users to error handling that excludes screen reader users, poor accessibility can result in unsafe workarounds, shadow behaviours, and system misuse.
Drawing from real-world experience building inclusive fintech platforms and contributing to open source, I will illustrate how exclusion can create an attack surface and how accessible design can genuinely enhance your app’s resilience. This is not a traditional accessibility talk; it reframes inclusion as an overlooked security practice.
Key Takeaways
Accessibility gaps create security risks — inaccessible flows often push users toward unsafe workarounds and shadow practices.
Inclusive design strengthens resilience — accessible systems are more usable and harder to misuse or exploit.
Common pitfalls to watch for — CAPTCHA, error handling, and authentication flows often exclude users and inadvertently open vulnerabilities.
Accessibility is more than compliance — it should be seen as a proactive security strategy that reduces attack surface.
Actionable frameworks — learn practical design patterns and audit methods that align accessibility with both usability and security.
Attendees will walk away with strategies to identify accessibility-driven risks in their own products, design patterns that simultaneously improve usability and security, and practical examples they can implement to build systems that are secure, scalable, and truly built for everyone.
Building for Accessibility
The fact that accessibility gives millions of users free access makes it a crucial component of web development. Unfortunately, a lot of developers frequently ignore online accessibility or don't take the essential efforts to assure it. 98% of the top websites do not provide completely accessible experiences, according to a recent study.
This session aims at teaching and advocating the need for developers to build for accessibility.
Daniel Chukwurah
Afrinvest West Africa - Senior Software Developer
Lagos, Nigeria
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