Kum Jude Tem

I’m a full-stack software engineer with 8 years of experience building and shipping production software across fintech, eCommerce, SaaS, data platforms, and AI-powered products. My strongest experience is with TypeScript, Node.js, C++, Rust, PHP, NestJS, Express, React, Angular, Next.js, Laravel, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and cloud infrastructure. I enjoy working across the stack and taking ownership from requirements and architecture through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.

Throughout my career, I’ve worked on a range of products including payment and eCommerce systems, data management platforms, SaaS applications, real time communication features, authentication and authorization systems, and AI-powered workflows. I’ve designed REST APIs, relational database schemas, background jobs and queues, caching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and responsive web applications. I’m particularly interested in backend architecture, API design, database performance, distributed workflows, system reliability, and building clean boundaries between services and clients.

I’ve also built and shipped several products independently, which has given me strong ownership and product thinking. Recent projects include Applyd, an AI-powered job application platform, and EasyRenter, a rental marketplace with web and mobile clients, authentication, payments, documents, messaging, notifications, and a dedicated backend API. These projects have given me practical experience integrating LLMs, designing scalable APIs, handling asynchronous workflows, and making architectural decisions across the entire product.

I care about more than getting features to work. I focus on maintainability, reliability, security, performance, observability, and making pragmatic technical trade offs. I prefer simple architectures that solve the actual problem over unnecessary complexity, and I’m comfortable stepping into existing codebases, diagnosing production issues, reducing technical debt, and improving engineering practices. I also enjoy mentoring developers, reviewing architecture and code, and helping teams establish standards that make software easier to evolve.

I’m particularly interested in opportunities where I can work on challenging backend or fullstack problems, contribute to architecture and technical direction, and have meaningful ownership over products. I’m open to working with teams building SaaS, fintech, eCommerce, developer tools, AI products, marketplaces, and other high impact web platforms.