Career arc
From maintaining financial-sector web apps to scaling national public-service platforms and founding an AI product, five-plus years moving steadily toward production-grade backend engineering.
Experience
Agence Emploi Jeunes (AEJ)
Building and maintaining production Laravel platforms used internally by AEJ staff and externally by job seekers across Côte d'Ivoire.
- Scaled the funding-windows platform to track 80,000+ projects, 86,000+ promoters, and 110,000+ archived documents, with RBAC, configurable workflows, advanced filters, dashboards, and exports.
- Designed AI evaluation modules for project review: business-plan generation, financial analysis, risk scoring, automated notifications, async jobs, and decision-support reporting.
- Maintained and shipped the AEJ mobile app inside an ecosystem serving 100,000+ beneficiaries.
- Monitored Azure environments, including VMs, performance metrics, and service availability, with JIT access for secure interventions.
- Stack: PHP, Laravel, Inertia.js, React, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Laravel Queues, PHPUnit, Flutter, Azure, GitHub Actions.
Guru Learner (founder, part-time)
Founded and built guru-learner.com, an AI English-speaking practice SaaS for francophone learners.
- Reached 220+ users across 14+ countries with speaking challenges, AI conversations, personalized feedback, and progression tracking.
- Architected a React/TypeScript + NestJS/PostgreSQL stack integrating audio transcription, AI analysis, real-time conversations, gamification, product analytics, and admin dashboards.
- Shipped monetization and conversion modules: plans, top-ups, referral, gifting, Paystack payments, transactional receipts, and free-to-paid flows.
- Stack: TypeScript, React, Vite, Tailwind, NestJS, PostgreSQL, TypeORM, Google Gemini, OpenAI Realtime API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, AWS S3, Paystack.
FX_LABS SARL
Maintained and improved web applications for financial-sector clients, including a platform used for general assemblies of BRVM-listed companies.
- Maintained Quorum Enligne, the web app used to run general assemblies for BRVM-listed companies, with a focus on reliability, availability, and security of sensitive data.
- Automated processing of 10,000+ shareholder list entries with Python/Pandas, cutting processing time by 90%+ and removing manual errors.
- Built and evolved Laravel/MySQL business modules: corrective maintenance, feature work, UX improvements.
- Designed a salary-simulation web app for users to compare compensation and spot market gaps.
- Stack: PHP, Laravel, Python, Pandas, JavaScript, MySQL, Bootstrap, Alpine.js, Ubuntu, Bitbucket.
Technical focus areas
Backend
LaravelNestJSExpress.jsPHPNode.jsTypeScript
Cloud & DevOps
AzureAWSDockerGitHub ActionsCI/CDLinux
AI
Google GeminiOpenAI Realtime APIGoogle Speech-to-TextClaude APIOllama
Architecture
Modular monolithMicroservicesHexagonalSOLIDDesign patterns
Education
Education
Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering (with honors)
Bachelor's in Applied Computer Methods for Business Management (with honors)
