A product engineer. I recently worked with the great team at Pear. My first go at AI engineering was at MosaiQ Labs, and Andela was my first job. Everywhere I have worked, I have come to love the engineering, and how people use what we build. All to say, I am bullish on software. I'm open to product and AI engineering roles, remote.
Product engineer with a good eye for clean, accessible interfaces and a real appetite for hard problems. Six years building products with teams — most recently real-time, high-stakes trading interfaces in DeFi using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and on-chain SDKs.
I owned Agent Pear, an AI trading-signals product, end to end, and was a core engineer on a Base mini app that brought on-chain pairs trading into Coinbase Wallet.
A hiring test for engineers who code with AI
AI has changed how we engineers work, but hiring tests haven’t caught up. So I built one where candidates solve a real task with Claude Code, and recruiters get a score and a replay of how they got there.
Live · launched Oct 2026 · Next.js, E2B sandboxes, Postgres, Drizzle, Better Auth
Open CmdRoundQR-based AI restaurant ordering
Over ₦200M processed so far. It started as an idea I had at dinner with my wife, and grew into a full SaaS for restaurants: orders, tickets, inventory and staff management.
Live · paying customers · Next.js 15, Firebase, Supabase pgvector, Gemini
Open waiter.nowThe global Claude Code leaderboard
A global leaderboard for Claude Code. Every prompt you send and every file Claude edits is a point. Live in your terminal and on the web.
Live · global board · Cloudflare Workers, D1, GitHub OAuth, npm CLI
Open MostCrackedSaaS for personal trainers
A big fan of the gym. So I built a solution for trainers and clients to track progress, plan workouts and manage subscriptions.
In private pilot · Next.js 16, Clerk, Supabase, Paystack
Open PennahBlur anything before you share your screen
I always wanted to share my screen without sharing my personal details. So I built an extension that blurs anything on the page and open-sourced it. Please fork and contribute!
Open source · Chrome Extension, JavaScript
View the sourceJul 2025 — Jul 2026
Owned Agent Pear — an AI trading-signals product — end to end, and was a core engineer on the Base / Farcaster mini app that brought on-chain pairs trading into Coinbase Wallet.
Sep 2022 — Jun 2025
Rebuilt the company’s Chrome extension into a fully interactive React system and built the infrastructure that tied the extension and web platform together.
Dec 2021 — Aug 2022
Themed and shipped white-label restaurant-ordering apps on Lunchbox’s shared React + TypeScript platform, translating pixel-perfect Figma into per-client themes.
Book 30 minutes: cal.com/mrjames/30min
Email: jamesakpan016@gmail.com
