FRANCIS KOFIGAH
Curriculum Vitae

Francis Kofigah

Senior Software Engineer/ AI Product Engineer/ Product Architect

Accra, Ghana Phone GitHub LinkedIn Things I've Built →
Francis Kofigah working at his desk in Accra, Ghana

Summary

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I'm a Senior Software Engineer and AI Product Engineer who enjoys turning difficult ideas into software people actually use. Over the past decade I've designed and built products across education, government, legal technology, AI and commerce.

While I spent the last ten years building Dough Man Foods into a successful business, software engineering has always been my first love. Running a company taught me product thinking, leadership and customer obsession — those experiences now shape how I build software, focusing not only on elegant code but on solving the right problem.

Today I build AI-native products using React, Next.js, React Native, Python and modern AI tooling. I enjoy every stage of product development, from discovery and UX design to architecture, implementation and deployment. I don't chase technologies — I chase problems. If solving a problem requires learning something new, I learn it.

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Featured Products

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CoCreation Institute

Lead Product Engineer

An AI-enhanced digital learning platform designed to make learning engaging, measurable and collaborative.

Students learn through interactive content, complete assessments, compare progress against peers through benchmark rankings, and receive AI-assisted learning support tailored to their academic journey.

  • Product architecture
  • Full-stack development
  • User experience design
  • AI feature integration
  • Learning workflow design
ReactNext.js Node.jsPostgreSQL AI APIs
Case Study

mSRC

Lead Software Engineer
Since 2016

Mobile School Report Card — a national education platform that has evolved continuously since 2016.

In 2026 I led the complete redesign of the mobile experience using AI throughout the design and engineering process — rethinking years of accumulated workflows while preserving operational continuity for existing users.

AI became part of the engineering process itself: analysing user journeys, challenging interface decisions, generating implementation strategies, reviewing edge cases and accelerating development.

ReactNext.js FlutterLaravel MySQLRedis GitHub Actions CI/CDAI-assisted Engineering

Authorigate

Lead Engineer

An AI legal research assistant that helps legal professionals retrieve grounded answers from trusted legal sources instead of relying solely on language models.

Building it required learning Retrieval-Augmented Generation, vector databases, embeddings and Python to build a system that retrieves relevant legal material before generating responses.

PythonNext.js Vector DB

Nurse Journey Tracker

Lead Product Engineer
In development

An AI-powered platform supporting African nurses through the NCLEX migration journey.

Combines intelligent guidance, personalised checklists, reminders, payment workflows and communication automation into a single experience that reduces the complexity of international migration.

Next.jsReact Native AI APIsWorkflow Automation

GSE Market Intelligence System

Founder & Sole Engineer
2025 — Present

Turning a stock exchange nobody watches into a daily signal.

An automated pipeline that scrapes Ghana Stock Exchange data, runs it through an LLM to generate plain-language market summaries, and delivers a daily digest — for free, at zero server cost.

PythonNode.jsGroq SupabaseTelegram Bot API GitHub ActionsReact

Dough Man Digital Platform

Product Engineer

Internal software supporting customer engagement, online ordering, marketing automation and operational workflows for a growing consumer brand.

Running the business provided an opportunity to build software while continuously learning from real customer behaviour and operational challenges.

Next.jsReact AutomationCRM

Ten years of WhatsApp chats, turned into structured data.

A two-stage parsing pipeline — regex first, LLM second — that converts a decade of raw WhatsApp order history into clean, structured records, now also powering customer-facing delivery documents.

PythonRegexLLM Parsing SupabaseCSV/PDF/HTML Generation
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Technical Expertise

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Frontend

ReactNext.jsReact Native ExpoFlutterTypeScriptJavaScript Tailwind CSSMaterial UI

Backend

Node.jsPythonPHP / Laravel SupabaseCloudflare WorkersREST APIs MySQLSQLRedis GitHub Actions CI/CD

AI Engineering

ClaudeChatGPTGemini OpenAI APIsGroqRAGEmbeddings Vector DatabasesPrompt Engineering AI-assisted DevelopmentAI Agentsn8n

Product Engineering

System DesignProduct Discovery UX ArchitectureWorkflow Design Technical LeadershipAPI Design

Professional Experience

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Chief Product Officer Sep 2014 — Present
Techmerge IT Solutions

Lead the design, architecture and delivery of software products across education, government and commercial sectors. Work closely with stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into intuitive digital products while mentoring engineering teams and driving AI-assisted development practices.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer Jun 2016 — Present
Dough Man Foods Co. Ltd

Founded and grew Dough Man Foods into an established consumer brand while designing the technology, systems and operational processes that support the business. Led multidisciplinary teams and introduced digital solutions that improved operations and customer experience.

Senior Consultant Dec 2018 — Present
Merchbase Consult

Advise founders and organisations on product strategy, business systems and technology adoption, with a focus on using AI and digital products to solve operational challenges.

Open Source & Personal Projects

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Speaking & Teaching

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Guest Facilitator
NIIT

Delivered training sessions on Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship, including practical demonstrations of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, AI workflows and modern product development.

Conference Speaker
Various Platforms

Regular speaker on entrepreneurship, software innovation and practical applications of AI for African businesses and founders.

Education

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Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST)
Software Development & Entrepreneurship
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
Bachelor of Science, Physics

Recognition

08
Avance Media — Top 50 Young CEOs 40 Under 40 Awards Ghana Startup Club 100 Processing Startup of the Year

Engineering Philosophy

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The best software disappears into the user's workflow.

AI should amplify engineering judgement — not replace it.

I learn technologies in service of solving problems, not in pursuit of certificates.