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Hello 👋, I'm
Afrokk.
Software Engineer and with a parallel 7-year tech industry journey, managing a 1.7M subs YT channel, former founder of a tech news website, and an avid freelancer with works featured in Forbes, Uber, and more. Currently based in Canada. 🍁
About me.
My journey in Software Engineering & Creative Design.
After moving to Canada, I decided to pursue a career in Computer Science. I did my foundations in C and Java. I have a strong passion for Engineering good software and love UI/UX design, fueled by my over 5 years of experience in Graphics Design and tech Content Creation.
Experience.
Software Developer
- Senior Full-stack / Infrastructure engineer at McGill University, building and maintaining high-uptime web platforms, data processing systems, and compute cluster infrastructure used for large-scale astrophysical research.
- Improved reliability and performance of core Python / Sanic APIs and MongoDB by tracking down failure modes on multi-CPU nodes, hardening Docker Swarm configs, and load-testing with Locust, resulting in over 40% fewer failed calls.
- Rebuilt the public CHIME/FRB website (chime-frb.ca) from scratch on Next.js, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes, opening 4,500+ fast radio bursts to astronomers through searchable catalogs and a public API.
- Operating and scaling high-uptime compute clusters (petabyte-scale data flow): containerized legacy services, set up secure deployments with Docker Secrets, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, automated backups/cron jobs, and recovery workflows for missing data and hardware issues (ZFS, disks, LDAP auth).
- Led frontend work on new features in React while maintaining and gradually deprecating Vue 2, Django, and other legacy architecture; migrated critical functionality into the newer platforms and documented it for non-technical stakeholders.
Founder & Lead Engineer
- Founded afrokk.studio, a boutique software studio that partners with a handful of founders at a time to build their products end to end, across fintech, healthcare, compliance & analytics.
- Own architecture and delivery on every build: scope the roadmap with founders, lead small engineering teams from prototype to production, and keep products running after launch.
- Rewrote the lending engine of a digital lender with automated loan models and grew its loan portfolio from US$75K to US$135K (+80%) in a year.
- Shipped AI products to production: LLM and speech-to-text pipelines, RAG and embeddings, document parsing, and privacy-first data handling for healthcare.
Creative Development Manager
- Directing a thriving 1.7 million subscribers YouTube channel to produce tech content for a worldwide audience.
- Managing partnerships with top-tier brands including Samsung, Google, Chevrolet, and more across diverse sectors.
- Generating over 3 million monthly views by producing 2,000+ videos to date on emerging tech, spanning smartphones, computers, electric vehicles, and more.
- Engineered a VueJS channel website and an interactive Discord Python chatbot to boost community engagement.
- Enhanced views from high CPM regions by 40% through SEO strategies, significantly boosting monetization potential.
Gallery.
Science at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory. Penticton, BC.
CES 2026 tech convention in Las Vegas. Third one I've attended.
1st place @ NASA Space Apps 2023 Regional for BlazeGuard (Team JavaLoungePresidents)
At CS Games 2023, in UQAC Saguenay, QC - 4th Place in Full-Stack Development (uWindsor Team B).
Google HashCode.
Occasionally, I review tech.
Software Portfolio.
Through afrokk.studio (shameless plug), I partner with a handful of founders at a time. I lead each build end to end, from first sketch to launch and beyond. Below is a selection, alongside my work at McGill and a few projects of my own.
Click a project to view more details.
Research & Publications.
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Education & Skills.
- 2024
Bachelor's in Computer Science
Minor in Communication, Media & Film
University of Windsor
- 2022
Full-Stack Development
Colt Steele's Bootcamp
- 2017-2020
Pre-Engineering (High School)
Forman Christian College
My skills
I am language-agnostic. I have worked with several technologies and frameworks. These include Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, and Go.
Databases
- Relational Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite
- Document Databses: MongoDB
DevOps
- Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP
- Container Orchestration: Docker Swarm, Kubernetes
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
- Automation: Ansible
- Version Control & CI/CD: Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions
Frameworks/Libraries
- Libraries: React, Vue.js, Svelte
- Frameworks: Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit
- Server: Node.js, Express, Flask, Sanic
- Markup: HTML, CSS, SASS, SCSS, Tailwind
Design
- Adobe Suite (Ps/Ae/Pr/XD)
- UI/UX: Figma
AI/ML
- Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow
- Model Hub: Hugging Face
- Infra: RAG pipelines, Vector Databases (pgVector, Pinecone)
- LLM Orchestration: LangChain
- APIs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini
Contact me.
Let's connect.
- Canada
- hi@afrokk.dev