Portrait of Raji Adewunmi Farouq

Software & AI Engineer / Lagos, NG

I build

I build software that does real work and ships to real people. I make AI assistants that run entirely on a phone (no cloud required), systems that answer questions by reading actual documents instead of guessing, and the apps, servers and automations behind them. In plain terms: I teach machines to do useful tasks, then make the whole thing fast, reliable and pleasant to use.

I care just as much about how it looks and feels as how it runs. The spacing, the typography, the animations, the small details that make an app feel made by a person and not stamped out by a template. I have founded and launched products people actually use, and I work across Rust, C/C++, Python and TypeScript, from low-level native code up to the interface.

Status Building
Shipping since -- days
Public repos 9
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Source shipped 85k+ LOC
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Shipped

Legally Unbullied

AI-powered legal-information platform for Nigeria. A Groq-backed classify, retrieve, draft agent answers questions over an indexed corpus of the ~550-Act "2004 Laws of Nigeria" federal compendium, citing only sourced provisions and escalating to the NBA Find a Lawyer directory when a matter needs a professional.

legally-unbullied.onrender.com

Nearspace

Proximity-first professional network for technology creators in Nigeria: a live map, local feed, bounties, orbits, footprints and groups. Shipped as an installable offline-first PWA on React, Vite, Firebase (Firestore, Realtime Database, Auth), Leaflet with geohash proximity and Paystack, deployed to Vercel.

nearspace.com.ng
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Selected work

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ForgeAI Mobile AI
Local-first AI coding assistant for Android. On-device GGUF inference through llama.cpp bridged over JNI to Capacitor, with token streaming, a checksummed model catalog, workspace file CRUD and a 42-test agent core.
JavaScriptCapacitorllama.cppJNIVite
~31.1k LOC build ok last commit 2026-07-31 repo public
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Chan Watchparty Realtime
Synchronized watch-party app with its own Node sync server, Cloudflare Workers proxy for O2TV streams, and a native Android build with a LibVLC fallback for MKV playback.
Node.jsJavaScriptCapacitorLibVLCWebRTC/LiveKitDocker
~41.8k LOC 1 build ok last commit 2026-08-14
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Stare Computer Vision
The internet's first real-time AI staring competition. MediaPipe Face Mesh acts as an impartial in-browser referee, scoring eye-aspect ratio and head pose, with WebRTC matchmaking and Firebase sync.
Next.jsTypeScriptMediaPipeWebRTCFirebaseTailwind
~4.9k LOC build ok last commit 2026-08-09 repo public
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Photon Lab Research
Research test bench for characterizing real-world screen-to-camera optical data channels. Automatic marker calibration, BER/SNR/throughput dashboards, experiment recording, and a Rust core bridged to Android via JNI.
JavaScriptComputer VisionRustJNIAndroid
~5.2k LOC build ok last commit 2026-08-06 repo public
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Patungans Fintech
Marketing and waitlist site for a group-savings app where friends pool contributions toward a shared target. Token-driven design system, signature pool visualization and routed login/signup flows.
ReactViteTailwind CSSTypeScript
~1.7k LOC build ok last commit 2026-08-05 repo public
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Uptime Distributed
Compute-rental MVP where devices register, jobs are submitted, jobs execute inside Docker on remote devices, and output returns. FastAPI control plane with SQLite and polling Python device agents.
PythonFastAPISQLiteDockerCloudflare Tunnel
~1.2k LOC build ok last commit 2026-07-25 repo public
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Stack

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonRustJavaC/C++SQLHTML/CSS

AI, on-device & native

GGUFllama.cppToken streamingAI agentsPrompt/skill systemsMediaPipeComputer visionWebRTCJNI/NDKCMake

Backend & cloud

Node.jsExpressFastAPIUvicornSQLiteSQLAlchemyRedis/UpstashFirebaseFirestoreCloudflare WorkersDocker

Mobile & cross-platform

AndroidCapacitorGradleLibVLCHLS/streamingCodeMirrorSAF/workspace APIs

Frontend & tooling

ReactNext.jsViteReact RouterTailwindSass/SCSSFramer MotionLucidePrettierESLint/OxlintVitest

Design & systems

UI/UX designDesign systemsDesign engineeringData vizRealtime syncCI/CDTechnical writing
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Writing

Long-form work outside the codebase. Used here as evidence of technical communication and the ability to hold and develop an argument across a sustained piece.

Published

Quiet Shelf

Modernization of Library and Information Science — a full-length work on transforming library systems for the digital age.

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In progress

Total Reign

An argument that the 2000s to the present represents football's definitive and most dominant era.

In progress

You

A psychological exploration of the architecture of genius and a framework for cultivating extreme competence.

Let's build something
that stays up.

Open to full-time roles, contract work and collaborations on AI, realtime and mobile systems.

rfarouq69@gmail.com