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Faruq Bakare

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Product Engineer at KOBOX building a dual-finance platform with fiat and crypto services and a P2P escrow marketplace.

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At KOBOX, I own the product lifecycle for a platform bridging traditional banking and decentralized finance. I architected and deployed its full-stack system, including unified fiat and crypto functionality and a P2P escrow marketplace.

At BUJETI, I built a React Native finance app that reduced payment approval time by up to 80% and increased payment volume by 10% since launch. I also optimized performance to achieve a crash rate below 0.1%.

At CODALM ALLIANCE LIMITED, I led the design and development of fintech, banking, and e-commerce solutions. I also built products including an AI-powered job application extension at HIYR and a numerical problem solver with 36+ integrated methods as a finals project.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Product Engineer

Current

KOBOX

Nov 2025 - Present (11 months)

Served as the sole Product Engineer, owning the full product lifecycle for a dual-finance platform. Architected and deployed the full-stack system, integrating unified fiat/crypto functionality and a secure P2P escrow marketplace.

NodeJS tRPC React Native Next.js Fullstack Development System Architecture P2P Escrow Fintech

Current

Mobile Engineer

Current

Bujeti

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 7 months)

Built a React Native mobile app for a finance platform, reducing payment approval time by up to 80% and increasing payment volume by 10%. Achieved near-zero crash rate through performance optimization and implemented error boundaries.

React Native Performance Optimization Error Boundaries Security Protocols Fintech

Frontend Developer

Jobifiy

Sep 2025 - May 2026 (8 months)

Led the Jobifiy 2.0 frontend overhaul, delivering mobile-responsive Talent and Company dashboards. Integrated AI-powered talent ranking, multi-stage application tracking, and complex job posting flows.

Frontend Development Next.js AI Integration Dashboard Development Mobile Responsive Design

Product Engineer

CodalM Alliance Limited

Feb 2024 - Mar 2026 (2 years 1 month)

Led design and development of 8+ fintech, banking, and e-commerce solutions. Doubled project delivery speed by implementing modular systems and improving cross-team synchronization.

Fintech Banking Ecommerce Modular Systems Cross team Collaboration Product Development

Frontend Developer

Hiyr

Jan 2025 - Mar 2025 (2 months)

Developed an AI-powered Chrome extension for job application management and custom CV/cover letter generation. Built the associated platform dashboard and marketing website.

React Next.js Chrome Extension development AI Integration Web Development

Product Engineer

NSCFN

Jan 2025 - Feb 2025 (1 month)

Led a cross-functional team through the full product lifecycle for a federal government Nutrition Survey Management system.

Product Lifecycle Management Cross functional Leadership Government Projects System Architecture

Product Engineer

Engineering Numerical Solver

Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 (3 months)

Designed and built an advanced numerical problem solver with 36+ integrated methods using Python and Next.js/D3.js for interactive visualizations.

Python NumPy Scipy fastAPI Next.js D3.Js Numerical Methods Interactive Visualization

Lead Frontend Engineer

Flippay

Sep 2023 - Jan 2024 (4 months)

Led 2 engineers to build cross-platform fintech apps with 10k+ downloads and over $1.2m transaction volume. Integrated features like wallet, gift card exchange, and bill payments.

React Native TypeScript Fintech Wallet integration Gift Card Exchange Bill Pay

Frontend Engineer

Kulipal

Jul 2023 - Sep 2023 (2 months)

Built two cross-platform mobile apps using React Native and TypeScript: a consumer app for food delivery, groceries, hotels, and ride-hailing, and a vendor app for order and inventory management.

React Native TypeScript Mobile Application Developer Food Delivery Inventory Management

Fullstack Engineer

AIB

Nov 2022 - Mar 2023 (4 months)

Developed and deployed a complete E-commerce marketplace application in collaboration with 3 engineers, implementing core features like accounts, storefronts, payments, and inventory management.

React TypeScript Python Flask Ecommerce Marketplace Payments Inventory Management

Frontend Developer

Munch UK

Jul 2022 - Oct 2022 (3 months)

Engineered a Super Admin web application for a UK food delivery company, managing crucial administrative functions such as orders, menus, inventory, promotions, and customers.

React React Query Admin Dashboard Food Delivery Order Management Inventory Management

React Developer

Vendly

Dec 2021 - Jul 2022 (7 months)

Developed UI and transaction processing backends for a social Fintech platform, implementing features for sending/receiving money via the Twitter API. Optimized application performance through design patterns, code splitting, and server-side rendering.

React Firebase NodeJS Twitter API Performance Optimization Code Splitting Server Side Rendering

Product Designer

Savage Phantom

Oct 2021 - Jan 2022 (3 months)

Led UX research and design for an e-commerce platform and admin dashboard, including creating UX documentation and user journey maps.

UX Research UX Design Ecommerce User Journey Mapping Team Management

C# Developer (Xamarin)

TD-Matrix Solver

Jan 2019 - Feb 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Designed, built, and deployed a cross-platform mobile application for solving tridiagonal matrices using C# (Xamarin), independently managing UI/UX design and asset production.

C#Xamarin Mobile Development UI UX Design Numerical Methods

Founder

Coursemate

Founded and led a team of 4 to build an AI-powered communication platform for undergrads. Achieved high user satisfaction and retention, winning 1st Runner-Up at PAADC 7.0.

Firebase NodeJS Next.js React Native AWS AI Product Management Team Leadership