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I’m a full-stack developer with experience building production-ready web and mobile applications using React, React Native, TypeScript, Go, Python, and Postgres. I’ve built scalable backend APIs, real-time messaging systems, RAG-based AI tools, and data-heavy platforms from the ground up. My background spans startup engineering, AI/ML, healthcare software, and backend systems, and I’m comfortable owning projects end-to-end, communicating with clients, and delivering reliable, maintainable code.…I’m a full-stack developer with experience building production-ready web and mobile applications using React, React Native, TypeScript, Go, Python, and Postgres. I’ve built scalable backend APIs, real-time messaging systems, RAG-based AI tools, and data-heavy platforms from the ground up. My background spans startup engineering, AI/ML, healthcare software, and backend systems, and I’m comfortable owning projects end-to-end, communicating with clients, and delivering reliable, maintainable code.

Hakeem Shitta-Bey

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Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Developer, +2

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I’m a full-stack developer with experience building production-ready web and mobile applications using React, React Native, TypeScript, Go, Python, and Postgres. I’ve built scalable backend APIs, real-time messaging systems, RAG-based AI tools, and data-heavy platforms from the ground up. My background spans startup engineering, AI/ML, healthcare software, and backend systems, and I’m comfortable owning projects end-to-end, communicating with clients, and delivering reliable, maintainable code.…I’m a full-stack developer with experience building production-ready web and mobile applications using React, React Native, TypeScript, Go, Python, and Postgres. I’ve built scalable backend APIs, real-time messaging systems, RAG-based AI tools, and data-heavy platforms from the ground up. My background spans startup engineering, AI/ML, healthcare software, and backend systems, and I’m comfortable owning projects end-to-end, communicating with clients, and delivering reliable, maintainable code.

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Durham, United States

I’m a full-stack developer with experience building production-ready web and mobile applications using React, React Native, TypeScript, Go, Python, and Postgres. I’ve built scalable backend APIs, real-time messaging systems, RAG-based AI tools, and data-heavy platforms from the ground up. My background spans startup engineering, AI/ML, healthcare software, and backend systems, and I’m comfortable owning projects end-to-end, communicating with clients, and delivering reliable, maintainable code.

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Work Experience

Founder & Full-Stack Engineer at Tribly (Trybl)

May 1, 2025 - Present

Led end-to-end development of a full-stack mobile app for student resources, events, social feeds, and collaboration using React Native (Expo), TypeScript, Go, and PocketBase (migrating to Supabase). Implemented a tool-calling chatbot backed by a vector database and a RAG pipeline to retrieve personalized context and execute actions via backend APIs. Engineered a scalable data model with 15+ collections and built a fast, memoized UI with virtualized lists; implemented real-time messaging via SSE (migrating to WebSockets). Managed product, engineering, and operations for a 10+ person team and drove campus rollout to 200+ users through partnerships.

Software Engineering Intern at Tanium

June 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025

Implemented a notification workflow in a Temporal-based service, configuring provider logic and workflow steps for customizable in-app delivery. Built gRPC service methods to communicate with a Postgres-backed internal API, improving integration between backend services and platform tooling. Contributed to a React/TypeScript frontend by cleaning up legacy code, fixing UI bugs, and shipping minor improvements for feature parity.

AI/ML Engineering Contractor at Equal IQ (a16z-backed)

October 1, 2025 - Present

Created a document preprocessing pipeline to improve downstream AI understanding, combining parsing, normalization, and tool/model-based extraction for structured representations. Generated a hypergraph from SRL outputs and transformed it into an event graph using heuristic methods and BERT-family models (incl. LegalBERT); trained GNNs to produce embeddings for a Pinecone-backed RAG system to improve grounding and reduce failure modes. Scoped the engagement independently with tasks definition and end-to-end execution with minimal oversight.

Mentor at Curious Cardinals

March 1, 2024 - Present

Mentored 7 students across math, reading, and computer science by designing lesson plans, project timelines, and hands-on build sessions tailored to each student’s level; led project-based learning in Python/data structures, web development (HTML/CSS/JS, React), and mobile apps (React Native + Google Maps API), including introductory machine learning projects.