MSc Informatics at UL Lafayette - graduating Dec 2027

I build with code, curiosity, and I enjoy solving the parts that make me think a little harder

Currently exploring: AI & LLMs, clean interfaces, Python APIs, and better ways to ship.

I’m Emmanuel Mensah, a full-stack engineer who enjoys taking ideas from “this could be useful” to something people can actually use. I work mostly with Next.js, React, Python, and LLMs, building web products, AI tools, and the systems behind them. Grad school has also pushed me to think more about AI, data, and how software can take some of the boring, repeated work off our hands. I enjoy solving tricky problems, learning as I build, and making the final product feel simple, even when the work behind it wasn’t.

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Illustration of Emmanuel coding on a laptop
01Next.js in the front
02Python doing the quiet work

Experience

The work, the problems, and the parts worth talking about.

Sep 2025 - Present

Software Engineer

bigspark - United Kingdom

  • Contracting within a bank's Pricing and Retail division, building internal platforms for daily pricing operations.
  • Turning manual, error-prone Excel work into cleaner pricing tools that pricing managers can use with more confidence.
  • Working closely with pricing managers and stakeholders to translate business rules into maintainable product flows.
Jan 2023 - Sep 2025

Software Engineer

AmaliTech Services GmbH - Takoradi, Ghana

  • Helped build AmaliAI, a company-wide AI assistant used by 300+ employees across multiple departments.
  • Built document-search flows so employees could ask company-specific questions and get answers without digging through FAQ pages.
  • Worked on secure communication patterns and confidentiality requirements for internal assistant workflows.
  • Led weekly grooming sessions with stakeholders, tracked blockers, shaped timelines, and kept technical progress easy to understand.
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024

Frontend Engineer

Peadato - Remote

  • Built React and TypeScript interfaces for a cross-border payment platform, with a focus on clarity around transactions.
  • Integrated multiple APIs to support secure, smooth payment experiences.
  • Worked with stakeholders to ship MVP features quickly, then improve them from real feedback instead of guessing in a corner.
Jul 2023

Frontend Engineer

Slightly Techie - Remote

  • Built frontend flows for the Slightly Techie School platform with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
  • Improved signup and registration experiences so new users could get through the door with less friction.
  • Contributed to a SaaS tool for managing employee skills, personal details, and project assignments.
Nov 2020 - Jun 2023

Frontend Developer

Freelance - Remote

  • Collaborated on jhely.com, a real estate marketplace built with React and TypeScript.
  • Built modular UI components and kept the architecture clean enough for future work to make sense.
  • Developed a responsive bank website with a homepage, login page, and dashboard for account balance views.

Projects

Things I built because I couldn’t stop thinking about the idea.

Most of my projects come from problems I’ve run into or things I thought could work better. From commerce and POS systems to AI tools, inventory, and reporting, I usually start by understanding the problem, then build something that makes it easier.

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Health Chatbot

A medical information chatbot using Gemini, Pinecone, Flask, and source material from The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.

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Preshify.com

An e-commerce store for perfumes backed by an admin dashboard for managing inventory, orders, customers, transactions, and sales.

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GillyPOS

A POS and inventory tool for sales, products, receipts, reports, stock control, and role-based access.

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Blog

A place for posts, build notes, and thoughts that made it past the first draft.

Links from Dev.to, LinkedIn, and anywhere else I write in public. Small notes, actual lessons, no fake thought-leader costume.

Dev.to

Medical chatbots with RAG: A complete guide

A short reflection on retrieval, messy documents, and why chatbots need better context.

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LinkedIn

Angular's Change Detection: Understanding & Optimizing

Understanding & optimizing Change Detection in Angular

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Stack

The tools I usually reach for when it’s time to build something.

01

Frontend

The part people see, click, and hopefully enjoy using.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSAngularZustand
02

Backend & Data

APIs, databases, auth, and everything keeping the app alive.

PythonFastAPIFlaskMongoDBPostgreSQLFirebaseDocker
03

AI & Cloud

Where I have been spending a lot more of my curiosity lately.

OpenAIClaudeLangChainChromaDBPineconeAWSVercel

Contact

Got a problem worth building for? I would love to hear about it.

Especially if it involves web apps, Python, AI, internal tools, or something that currently takes way more effort than it should.

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