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Senior Fullstack Engineer specialising in AI-powered search, distributed backends, and product engineering. 10+ years shipping systems that scale.

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Agyenim Boateng Barfi
Senior Fullstack Engineer · Ghana (GMT+0)
10+
Years Experience
2
Current Roles
2
Open Source Pkgs
∞
Vectors Indexed
Core Stack
PHP · Laravel TypeScript Node.js Python OpenSearch React Vue AWS
Accra, Ghana · Open to remote & relocation
About

I build things that scale and search.

I'm a Senior Fullstack Engineer with over a decade of experience building products end-to-end — from interactive frontends to distributed backends handling millions of events. My sweet spot is the intersection of search infrastructure, AI integrations, and clean API design.

Currently I'm running Searchly AI, an AI-native semantic search engine for e-commerce, while contracting with Axcera, a fintech for prop trading firms, where I rebuilt their entire checkout infrastructure. Previously I spent 3 years as a Senior Engineer at 64Robots shipping across multiple client products.

I'm a Laravel Certified Developer, creator of the ElasticBridge open-source package, and a builder who cares as much about shipping clean code as about understanding the business problem behind it.

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AI-Powered Search
Built semantic search systems using vector embeddings, OpenSearch, and OpenAI — enabling natural language product discovery at scale.
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Distributed Systems
Designed real-time data pipelines with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis handling high-throughput workloads across distributed queues.
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E-commerce Engineering
Built and replaced checkout systems, payment integrations (Stripe, Paytiko, Paysafe), and product import engines handling millions of records.
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Open Source
Creator of ElasticBridge — a fluent Laravel package for Elasticsearch integration, available on Packagist.
Languages
PHP
TypeScript
Node.js
Python
JavaScript
Frontend & Backend
Laravel
React
Vue.js
Inertia.js
Tailwind CSS
Data & Search
OpenSearch
Elasticsearch
Redis
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Cloud & AI
AWS (EC2, S3, SQS)
Docker
OpenAI API
Vector Embeddings
CI/CD
Projects

Things I've built

A selection of products, tools, and systems — from AI-powered search to open-source packages.

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AI · E-commerce · Founder
Searchly AI
An AI-powered semantic search engine for e-commerce platforms. Generates vector embeddings per product to enable natural language discovery — "red running shoes under $20" just works. Plug-and-play WooCommerce plugin with real-time catalog syncing.
Laravel Python OpenSearch OpenAI RabbitMQ
Visit Searchly AI →
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Open Source · Laravel Package
ElasticBridge
A fluent, Eloquent-style Laravel package for integrating Elasticsearch. Query, index, filter, and aggregate with clean PHP syntax. Available on Packagist.
PHP Laravel Elasticsearch
View on GitHub →
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Fintech · Contract · Axcera
Checkout Infrastructure Rebuild
Replaced a WooCommerce-based checkout with a custom TypeScript/Node.js e-commerce service, integrating Paytiko and Paysafe for full payment lifecycle control.
TypeScript Node.js Paytiko Paysafe
Private project
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PropTech · AI Integration · 64Robots
AI Listing Automation
Integrated OpenAI into FinanceLobby's broker workflow to auto-generate property listings from Offering Memorandum PDFs — extracting document text as GPT context to pre-populate fields and eliminate manual data entry.
OpenAI PHP PDF parsing Laravel
Private project
Experience

Where I've worked

Dec 2024 — Present
Axcera
Contract · Remote
Senior Fullstack Engineer Current
Architected and built a custom e-commerce service from scratch in TypeScript to replace WooCommerce as the checkout backbone for a prop trading firm's platform. Integrated Paytiko and Paysafe as payment providers with a clean, maintainable API layer.
TypeScriptNode.jsPaytikoPaysafe
Jan 2025 — Present
Searchly AI
Founder · Accra, Ghana
Lead Product Engineer Current
Founded and built an AI-powered semantic search engine for e-commerce. Designed the full data ingestion pipeline, vector embedding generation, OpenSearch integration, Shopify plugin, and merchant onboarding — entirely solo.
LaravelPythonOpenSearchRabbitMQOpenAI
Jan 2022 — Jan 2025
64Robots
Senior Engineer · Remote
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Delivered across multiple client products — AI listing automation with OpenAI, Elasticsearch search infrastructure, payment APIs, UPS logistics integrations, and React/Vue frontends. Introduced automated testing pipelines and code quality standards.
LaravelReactVueElasticsearchOpenAIAWS
Sept 2018 — Dec 2021
Scopic Software
Developer · Remote
Fullstack Developer
Built an FFmpeg-based video transcoding service and maintained multiple legacy client applications, resolving long-standing performance bottlenecks while delivering full-stack feature work.
PHPFFmpegYii
May 2015 — Aug 2018
Kudobuzz
Developer · Accra, Ghana
Fullstack Developer
Built a high-performance product import engine for Shopify, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce. Expanded social platform integrations from 2 to 6. Migrated a legacy PHP app to React and introduced automated testing practices.
PHPLaravelReactRedisKafka
Contact

Let's work together.

Open to senior fullstack roles, contract engagements, and interesting technical conversations. Based in Accra, GMT+0 — comfortable with remote and open to relocation.

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Email
aboateng62@gmail.com
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LinkedIn
agyenim-boateng-barfi
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GitHub
github.com/lacasera