A product engineer. Six years in, and I'm still in love with the whole thing: designing, building, shipping, then watching people use it. A true disciple of the web.
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.
QR-based AI restaurant ordering
An idea I had at dinner with my wife. It grew into a full SaaS for restaurants: orders, tickets, inventory and staff management. Over $80k processed and counting.
Live · paying customers · Next.js 15, Firebase, Supabase pgvector, Gemini
Open waiter.nowThe global Claude Code leaderboard
My friends and I kept arguing about who ships the most with Claude Code. So I built a leaderboard to settle it: every prompt you fire and file Claude edits earns 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
