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Frank K. AbrokwaFull Stack Developer / Senior Backend Engineer

Full Stack Developer

Six years designing, building and deploying web and mobile systems that hold up in production. Comfortable at both ends of the stack, most at home in the parts nobody sees.

Role
Senior Backend / Full Stack
Base
Greater Accra, Ghana (GMT)
Since
2019
Mode
Remote, distributed teams
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TanStack Query
  • AI agents
  • React Native
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Django
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • MongoDB
  • GraphQL-ready REST
  • Redis-backed queues
  • Playwright
  • Vue.js
  • Laravel
  • Firebase
  • Stripe
  • Paystack
  • WebSockets
[ 01 ]About

I build the partsthat have to not break.

Based in Greater Accra, Ghana, working remotely with teams across time zones since 2019.

Results-oriented Full Stack Developer with over 6 years of experience designing, developing and deploying web and mobile applications. Adept across frontend and backend, with a strong grounding in API integration, and a proven record of shipping high-quality software in a fully remote environment.

Most of my time now goes to backend architecture: modular REST services, schema and query design, auth and access control, and the deployment pipeline around them. The frontend years did not go to waste. Knowing exactly what the client will do with a response tends to produce a better API.

Campus Eats taught me most of it. I founded the delivery platform in 2019 and ran it through real orders and real customers, which sharpens judgement about reliability faster than any amount of theory. Haxo Labs acquired its intellectual property, and I build backend systems there now.

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Frank K. Abrokwa, photographed outdoors at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Frank AbrokwaAccra, Ghana
University of Ghana, Legon

Signals

Across employed, client and founded work. Each figure is scoped in its own note.

Years in production
6+Web, mobile and backend, shipping since 2019
Products end to end
5Architecture, schema and deployment, all mine
Client builds delivered
10+Commerce and marketing sites at studio pace
People served
1.6kCampus Eats users in the first six months
Orders processed
1.1kSame window, real money, no downtime budget
Remote
100%Distributed teams across several time zones
[ 02 ]Stack

The tools, andwhere I actually used them.

Frontend01 / 09

Three years of React and Next.js at Lemontree Studio, including the Nodetree no-code builder and its Respawn, Elevate and Radison templates.

  • 01

    Frontend

    • React (TypeScript)
    • Next.js (TypeScript)
    • Vue.js
  • 02

    Mobile

    • React Native (TypeScript)
  • 03

    Backend

    • Node.js — Express
    • Node.js — NestJS
    • Node.js — AdonisJS
    • Laravel (PHP)
    • Django (Python)
    • Flask (Python)
  • 04

    Databases

    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • MongoDB
    • Firestore
  • 05

    Testing & Monitoring

    • Playwright
    • Cypress
    • Jest
    • Sentry
  • 06

    State & Data Fetching

    • TanStack Query
    • Redux
    • Zustand
    • Context API
  • 07

    AI & Conversational

    • AI agent development
    • Conversational interfaces
    • WhatsApp Business Platform
  • 08

    Platform & Infra

    • Docker
    • AWS
    • Firebase
    • Git
    • CI/CD
  • 09

    CMS & Commerce

    • WordPress
    • Shopify
[ 03 ]Work

Six years,three chapters.

Studio work, senior backend engineering, and a delivery company I started and still run.
  1. 2025 — Present

    Haxo Labs Ltd

    Senior Backend Engineer

    Remote

    Architecting the backend systems that carry production traffic, and setting the engineering standards the rest of the team builds against. Haxo Labs acquired the Campus Eats intellectual property, the platform I founded and built.

    • Helped build Boafuo, a WhatsApp-native AI assistant for tailoring businesses, now serving 2,500+ users and 800+ orders without a single app download.
    • Architect and maintain scalable backend systems in Node.js (TypeScript) and Python (Django), designing modular REST APIs for high-availability production environments.
    • Design and optimise relational and NoSQL schemas, applying indexing, query tuning and transactional integrity to performance-critical services.
    • Implement secure authentication and authorisation across multi-user applications using JWT, role-based access control and middleware validation.
    • Deploy and operate backend services in the cloud, configuring CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and production monitoring.
    • Run code reviews, enforce engineering standards, and mentor junior developers on backend practice and system design.
  2. 2022 — 2025

    Lemontree Studio

    Software Engineer

    Montreal, Canada — Remote

    Three years across the studio's product surface: a no-code website builder, its template library, and a portfolio of client commerce sites.

    • Built and maintained web applications in React and Node.js, entirely in TypeScript.
    • Contributed frontend and backend features to Nodetree, the studio's no-code website builder, and authored several of its templates including Respawn, Elevate and Radison.
    • Wrote comprehensive Playwright suites covering key user journeys, UI behaviour and edge cases — cutting manual QA effort and catching regressions before deploy.
    • Integrated third-party APIs and implemented state management with Redux and the Context API.
    • Conducted code reviews and held the quality line with Jest and Cypress.
    • Delivered and maintained WordPress and Shopify builds for client brands.
  3. 2019

    Campus Eats

    Founder & Lead Developer

    Ghana

    FounderAcquired by Haxo Labs

    A food delivery platform I founded and built end to end: web, mobile, payments and operations. 1,600+ users and 1,100+ orders in its first six months. Its intellectual property was later acquired by Haxo Labs.

    • Designed and built a scalable delivery platform on Next.js, React Native and Node.js (Express) covering both web and mobile.
    • Led end-to-end development across architecture, UI/UX, backend services and database design.
    • Implemented real-time order tracking and notifications over WebSockets and push.
    • Built JWT-based sessions with social login for frictionless onboarding.
    • Integrated Stripe and Paystack for secure, reliable payments.
    • Cut load times through code-splitting, caching and API optimisation.
    • Supported 1,600+ users and 1,100+ orders within six months of launch.
    • Led a small development team through feature cycles, fixes and releases.
    • The platform's intellectual property was acquired by Haxo Labs, where I now work as a senior backend engineer.
[ 04 ]Projects

Things I ambuilding now.

Products rather than exercises. Each one exists because something was genuinely missing.
01Open source

SyncForge

Offline-first synchronisation engine

Author & maintainer

Someone fills in a form on a train, in a basement, or on bad Wi-Fi. They tap save. The request fails and the work is gone.

A small TypeScript library that guarantees mutation delivery. It records a change, stores it safely, and sends it once the connection returns. It does that without asking you to adopt a local database, rewrite your API, or commit to a particular framework.

  • Four calls carry the whole surface: mutate records a change, flush sends it, and events report what happened. SyncForge never interprets the operation type, so the vocabulary stays yours.
  • The core owns the operation lifecycle. Two pluggable adapters own everything else, which keeps the engine testable and the integration shallow.
  • The transport adapter maps an operation to your backend, whether that is REST, GraphQL, tRPC or something bespoke. Existing APIs need no changes.
  • The storage adapter persists the queue across reloads. In-memory and IndexedDB backends ship with it.
  • Automatic sync on reconnect, configurable retry strategies, optimistic updates, and lifecycle events for queued, syncing, succeeded and failed.
  • A companion package, syncforge-react, adds a provider and the useSyncEngine, useSyncFlush and useSyncStatus hooks over the same engine.
  • The core engine, IndexedDB persistence, auto sync, retry strategies, optimistic handlers and the React hooks all carry tests.
  • MIT licensed, developed in the open, and in active development toward a 1.0.
TypeScriptIndexedDBReactMIT licensed
github.com/codewithcobby/syncforge
02In development

Delivables

Delivery operations & logistics management

Backend architect

A centralised platform for coordinating riders, tracking deliveries in real time and monitoring operational performance across multiple branches.

  • Architected a REST backend covering delivery lifecycle workflows, rider assignment and multi-branch dispatch.
  • Designed structured state machines enforcing controlled status transitions and data integrity.
  • Implemented real-time tracking with event-driven updates syncing rider activity to live dashboards.
  • Built role-based access control and secure authentication for multi-user business environments.
  • Engineered indexed schemas for high-concurrency tracking and historical log retrieval.
  • Automated rider allocation from availability and proximity constraints to improve dispatch efficiency.
  • Structured services for horizontal scalability and fault tolerance using a microservice split.
Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLMicroservicesRBACWebSockets
delivables.com
03In development

BuildInWeb

Website builder & business automation platform

Lead developer

An integrated platform that lets a business build its site, run its store, automate customer engagement and manage operations from one system, without touching code.

  • Leading end-to-end development on the MERN stack, built for scale.
  • Designed a modular drag-and-drop page builder for dynamic customisation with no technical expertise required.
  • Built reusable template systems and feature modules supporting multi-industry deployments.
  • Optimised backend infrastructure for fast, reliable message delivery.
  • Implemented secure authentication with OAuth and JWT.
  • Shipped integrated e-commerce and automation, including order management and customer notification workflows.
MongoDBExpressReactNode.jsOAuthJWT
buildinweb.com
04In development

Ozzo

Pharmacy locator & medication pricing

Designer & developer

A health-tech platform connecting people to nearby pharmacies with live medication availability, pricing and delivery options.

  • Designed and built the platform across web and mobile on Next.js, React Native, Node.js and MongoDB.
  • Implemented real-time pharmacy updates so users can compare prices and check availability instantly.
  • Built an interface tuned for accessibility and speed of use.
  • Integrated geolocation so users find the nearest pharmacy efficiently.
  • Developed a backend handling live data updates and concurrent user interaction.
Next.jsReact NativeNode.jsMongoDBGeolocation
See the launch post
[ 05 ]Contact

Let's buildsomething solid.

Open to software engineering roles, and to contract work on systems that need to be dependable.
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Education

  • BSc Information Technology

    University of Ghana, Legon

    2018 — 2022