zeke
> booting zeke_os...> loading modules: business, design, code> status: ready

i build like an engineer,
but i think like an owner.

// before_the_code.ts

i don't have a CS/IT degree. i didn't study general science in high school. what i had was a business administration programme at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana that taught me how organisations make decisions.

but i saw people close to me (heavy inspiration) build things from scratch. i also saw the places "code" could take me, the Bay Area for instance, Stockholm or far away to Shibuya and decided i could build things too, and here i am.. putting in the discipline to earn the skill.

# the_turning_point

before: spreadsheets, ledgers, a degree that taught me how a business decides, but never how to build the tool it decides with.

after: in 2024 i hacked together a static YouTube clone with raw HTML and CSS from a crash course tutorial by "SuperSimpleDev". a developer saw it and thought he was looking at the actual live site [haha], until i told him it's just a static clone. that was my "yeah, this is it" moment.

TAPE.01 — BEFORE
00:00:00:00
business admin, year one
REC — AFTERLIVE
000:00:00:00
days : hrs : min : sec since code clicked
>_ ls -lah ./stack
sys.frontendactive
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Recharts
sys.backend142kb
Supabase, MongoDB, Express.js, Render
sys.infranode_modules
Vercel, Git, GitHub, REST APIs, AI
sys.logicprotected
Financial Analysis, MS 365 Suite, Figma, Risk Modeling
> git log --oneline --graph
a1b2c3d(planned)
expected Sep 2026

sys_build_complete

BSc. Business Administration (Management), KNUST. Expected First Class Honours.

9f4e21a(HEAD -> main)
Jan 2025 - Present

dev_runtime

Frontend Developer Intern (remote) at Nixzoe Inc, Canada. Shipping production-grade React/Next.js applications, integrating third-party REST APIs and debugging UI across deployment workflows.

7c2b9f1(tag: v1.0-scholar)
2024 - 2026

scholarship_granted

Ghana National Petroleum Corporation Scholarship, KNUST.

f8e7d6c
Sep 2023 - Nov 2023

finance_runtime

Intern at SMEC (Accra). Managed financial records, tax clearances, reconciled receipts and ensured audit readiness.

3d8a04e(tag: v0.1-topgrad)
2022

overall_best_student

Best General Arts Student, St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast.

init_commit(root-commit)
2019 - 2022

init (high school)

St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast.

/* what i build toward */

the projects i end up working on deal in numbers, decisions and real-world applications.
exchango was born from me following national issues. in 2025, the ghanaian cedi was appreciating heavily against major currencies, so i built a live converter just to track the momentum myself and for others to use.

assay came straight from the finance lecture hall. "investment appraisal" is everywhere in theory, but every existing tool was stuck in a 2009 UI. fragmented calculators, no unified flow, and zero plain-english explanations for non-technical users. if you wanted NPV, IRR, MIRR and break-even, you had to piece them together manually. so i built an engine that compiles 9 key metrics in a single click and actually tells you what the numbers mean.

i've worked across the full stack and can handle the backend when a project calls for it but my sharpest work is on the frontend. i'm not interested in being a generalist full-stack dev necessarily. i'm interested in the tools that sit between a decision and its consequences, and making those tools honest.

cat README_AI_POLICY.txt
i use AI in my workflow, that i'll say plainly. what i don't do is copy-paste logic i don't understand. every new "unusual" concept it introduces, i make it explain until i own it. every such output i ship, i review and refine to match my own standard. i think that's the honest way to grow.
~/projects/portfolio (main)

that's most of it. if any of this sounds like your kind of problem, the actual builds say it better than i can.

builds.log