Portfolio · 2026

I turn coffee
into software
and occasionally
into bugs.

Full-stack engineer with five years backend-deep — NestJS, Django, AWS, tables I collapsed, latencies I cut. These days I ship the React and Vue on top of them, so the product feels as considered as the plumbing beneath it.

BasedTakoradi, Ghana
CurrentlyBackend Developer at Wonchunii
Years shippingFive, and counting
01  —  About

A quiet obsession with the whole product.

The short version

I spent five years building the parts of systems you never see — APIs, schemas, queues, the plumbing that keeps a product honest when the load doubles overnight. Microservices that had to actually scale. DynamoDB tables I collapsed from twelve into one. Django ORM pushed hard enough to deliver an ERP a year ahead of schedule.

Then I got tired of handing designs off and watching them come back a little wrong. So I learned the other half. Now I ship React and Vue front-ends that are as considered as the backends underneath them — typed, tested, accessible, and shaped like the data they're standing on.

The throughline: I care about the thing working, all the way through.

02  —  Receipts

Numbers that moved, measurably.

35%
query latency reduction
MongoDB optimization at Wonchunii
50%
dev efficiency gain
Monolith → microservices on AWS Lambda
30%
DynamoDB cost cut
12 tables → 1 single-table design
1 yr
ERP delivered
Cut from a 2-year estimate
40%
faster queries
Node.js + DynamoDB at IOTA
80%
less manual work
Stripe payment automation
04  —  Craft

The tools on my bench.

Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJava
Backend
DjangoNestJSFastAPINode.jsSpring BootExpressCelery
Frontend
ReactVue.jsTailwindGraphQL
Data
PostgreSQLMongoDBDynamoDBMySQLDjango ORM
Cloud & Ops
AWSAWS AppSyncAWS LambdaDockerAzure
Specialized
StripePaystackOpenAI WhisperDICOM
05  —  Also built

Other things I've put into the world.

Enterprise Resource Planning Platform

Led backend; shipped in half the estimated time.

DjangoVue.jsPostgreSQLAWS

Opportunity & Mentoring System

AppSync real-time sync; Stripe KYC.

ReactNode.jsGraphQLAWS

Equipment Rental System

Multi-tenant architecture, diverse client needs.

ReactServerlessTypeScriptAWS

Multi-Club Management

RBAC, memberships, events, analytics.

NestJSMongoDBAWSExpress
06  —  Credentials

School & certifications.

Education

BS Chemical Engineering

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · Aug 2018 — Sept 2022

Self-taught the software side. Chemical engineering taught me to think in systems and second-order effects.

Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services · Oct 2024
07  —  Say hello

Got something worth building?

phaisalsey6@gmail.com
Phone+233 24 914 1809
Based inTakoradi, Ghana
TimezoneGMT · Accra
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I turn coffee into software
and occasionally into bugs.

APIs, microservices, databases — then React and Vue on top, because I got tired of watching handoffs go wrong. ERPs, medical records systems, real-time platforms, payment pipelines. I build things that scale, fail gracefully, and feel as tidy on the surface as they are underneath.

name
Faisal Issaka
role
Full Stack Engineer
based
Takoradi, Ghana
status
Hiring? Let's talk.
01 · about

About

I spent five years building the parts of systems you never see — APIs, schemas, queues, the plumbing that keeps a product honest when the load doubles overnight. Microservices that had to actually scale. DynamoDB tables I collapsed from twelve into one. Django ORM pushed hard enough to deliver an ERP a year ahead of schedule.

Then I got tired of handing designs off and watching them come back a little wrong. So I learned the other half. Now I ship React and Vue front-ends that are as considered as the backends underneath them — typed, tested, accessible, and shaped like the data they're standing on.

The throughline: I care about the thing working, all the way through.

// snapshot.json
{
  "shipping": "5+ years",
  "backend": "deep",
  "frontend": "committed",
  "cloud": "AWS + Azure",
  "languages": ["py", "ts", "java"],
  "caffeine": "calibrated",
  "status": "open_to_work"
}
02 · impact

Receipts

35%
query latency reduction
MongoDB optimization at Wonchunii
50%
dev efficiency gain
Monolith → microservices on AWS Lambda
30%
DynamoDB cost cut
12 tables → 1 single-table design
1 yr
ERP delivered
Cut from a 2-year estimate
40%
faster queries
Node.js + DynamoDB at IOTA
80%
less manual work
Stripe payment automation
04 · stack

Tools on the bench

Python TypeScript JavaScript Java
05 · projects

Also built

Enterprise Resource Planning Platform

Led backend; shipped in half the estimated time.

DjangoVue.jsPostgreSQLAWS

Opportunity & Mentoring System

AppSync real-time sync; Stripe KYC.

ReactNode.jsGraphQLAWS

Equipment Rental System

Multi-tenant architecture, diverse client needs.

ReactServerlessTypeScriptAWS

Multi-Club Management

RBAC, memberships, events, analytics.

NestJSMongoDBAWSExpress
06 · open source

In the open

dev-scaffolder

building

A CLI project generator with a tree-based question system and custom template executors. Cuts the boilerplate ceremony out of starting a new project.

linked

contributor

Distraction-free daily journaling app. Nearly 1k GitHub stars. Contributed to a project used by a real, active community — not just a résumé line.

07 · credentials

School & certs

Education

BS Chemical Engineering

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · Aug 2018 — Sept 2022
Self-taught the software side. Chemical engineering taught me to think in systems and second-order effects.
Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services · Oct 2024

Got a hard system
worth building?

Reply in hours, not days. Senior full-stack, backend-heavy, ships production code fluently.

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