Phillip-Bryan Kouokam PhilBKouokam

Hi, I'm Phillip-Bryan Kouokam 👋

AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer

Software is easy to build. Software people use is hard to build.

I build products by combining systems thinking, modern AI development workflows, and a relentless focus on solving real user problems.

I believe AI has fundamentally changed how software is built—but not why people use it. My goal isn't simply to build software. It's to create products that solve meaningful problems, earn trust, and become part of people's daily lives.

🌐 Website: https://philbk.dev
📄 Resume: https://philbk.dev/resume.pdf
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-bryan-kouokam

🚀 Featured Products

🏦 CalorieBank

Helping people enjoy the foods they love while continuing to make progress toward their fitness goals through a new calorie banking approach.

🎥 Demo
https://www.loom.com/share/3a0f06928e004bad80cd4ae181f65d1c

🌐 Live
https://caloriebank-pi.vercel.app/

💻 Repository
https://github.com/PhilBKouokam/CalorieBank

💰 SpendWise

Helping users better understand and organize their personal finances through intuitive budgeting, expense tracking, receipt management, and financial insights.

🎥 Demo
https://www.loom.com/share/75bc2eae927b4d0d9c22ff35297a09c1

🌐 Live
https://spendwise-two-navy.vercel.app/

💻 Repository
https://github.com/PhilBKouokam/spendwise

✅ Habit Tracker

Helping users build consistency through secure daily habit tracking, progress monitoring, and a clean full-stack experience.

🎥 Demo
https://www.loom.com/share/f69f4dce4b53414299a23805874cc25b

🌐 Live
https://habit-tracker-six-murex.vercel.app/

💻 Repository
https://github.com/PhilBKouokam/HabitTracker

☁️ Cloud Engineering

AWS Highly Available Web Application

Designed a resilient cloud architecture focused on high availability, fault tolerance, automatic scaling, and operational visibility using core AWS infrastructure services.

Repository
https://github.com/PhilBKouokam/aws-highly-available-web-application

AWS Serverless ETL Pipeline

Designed an event-driven data processing pipeline that automatically transforms uploaded datasets using serverless AWS services.

Repository
https://github.com/PhilBKouokam/aws-serverless-etl-pipeline

📄 Engineering Systems

philbk-resume

A deterministic résumé publishing system that treats professional documents like software systems through structured content, validation, reproducible PDF generation, and automated quality checks.

Repository
https://github.com/PhilBKouokam/philbk-resume

🛠 Technology Stack

Frontend

React
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Tailwind CSS

Backend

Node.js
Express.js
REST APIs
JWT Authentication

Cloud

AWS
MongoDB
Vercel
Render

Engineering

Systems Thinking
Product Discovery
Component Architecture
REST API Design
Performance Optimization
Accessibility

AI Development Workflow

ChatGPT
Codex
Claude Code
Cursor

I use AI to accelerate investigation, implementation, debugging, and documentation while keeping architecture, verification, and final engineering decisions under human judgment.

🧠 Engineering Philosophy

The principles that guide how I build software:

Build products around meaningful user problems.
Design systems that remain simple and maintainable as they grow.
Use AI to accelerate development—not replace engineering judgment.
Verify before shipping.
Learn from users and continuously improve the product.

🌱 Current Focus

I'm currently focused on:

Building CalorieBank
Designing products people genuinely enjoy using
Modern AI development workflows
AWS cloud architecture
Full-stack product engineering

📫 Connect

🌐 Website
https://philbk.dev

📄 Resume
https://philbk.dev/resume.pdf

💼 LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-bryan-kouokam

📧 Email
philliptchuenkam@gmail.com

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