
Elikem Medehou
Product Software Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Cotonou, Benin
Mobility: Remote
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Fullstack Engineer
FreelanceFreelance
Dec 2024 - Present
1 year 11 months
Remote
Repat Africa (Community Platform) — Full-Stack Engineer & Product Strategy - Optimised Flutter mobile app and improved chat performance by 40% - Contributed to the go-to-market strategy positioning platform as a core acquisition channel - Enhanced onboarding flows and user retention through design/product collaboration Zepargn (Fintech) — Product Manager - Defined product roadmap and prioritised features with the engineering team - Designed and shipped a new landing page, improving product visibility and positioning - Managed technical team, ensuring delivery aligned with product goals - Secured mobile money API access across West Africa and supervised integration Alpilink (SaaS) — Flutter Developer - Built ski terminal management app for offline/remote mountain environments - Implemented real-time data processing for operational monitoring and background services
Product Engineer
Tama
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
10 months
Delaware, OH 43015, USA
- Developed and managed the backend using Supabase, including designing and optimizing SQL databases and creating high-performance APIs for both web and mobile platforms. - Implemented an advanced search system for web and mobile platforms, improving result accuracy and reducing response times by 30% through optimized SQL queries and efficient indexing. - Rewrited the whole book reading parsing and feature to enhance UX and user retention and reduce to 0% the app jank and bugs. - Built the mobile application using Flutter with Riverpod for efficient state management and enhanced performance. - Contributed to the development of the web platform, ensuring a seamless and consistent user experience across both platforms. - Participated in Agile planning to manage tasks and ensure timely deliveries. - Collaborated with product and design teams to implement features aligned with user needs and business goals. - Conducted thorough testing and performance optimization to ensure reliability and scalability of the solutions. Key achievements: - Increased user engagement by 15% through improved features and a better user experience. - Reduced loading times for core functionalities by 40% thanks to backend and mobile optimizations.
Technical Lead
Tailoring Sports Investments
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
11 months
Cotonou, Benin
- Created and managed the first recruitment processes of the companies. - Led code reviews to maintain the quality of the company's code and products. - Managed a technical team of more than 10 people. - Managed, designed, and delivered solutions in the sports fields including APIs, e-learning, events management platforms, game management and players performance tracking.
Full Stack Engineer
TAKABYTES
Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 1 month
- Built and deployed a frontend Flutter web application for an investigation platform - Proposed and developed a layered then service-oriented architecture to deliver clearly and efficiently core features - Built and deployed a Node.js backend application powered by search engine technologies that can index, read, and search through over 40 million data entries over +20 databases - Built and shipped many features that can help end users create folders, hide sensitive data, and customize their search queries - Gradually increased database reading and indexing up to 4x times faster - Improved security, crash tolerance, and monitoring tools enabling tests and audits to be more accessible over the platform - Developed, implemented, and deployed monitoring and benchmarking tools to assess the performance of our platforms. - Deployed solutions developed in-house in the cloud in compliance with security standards.
Mobile Developer
GRAND Hosters
Jun 2023 - Nov 2023
6 months
Cotonou, Benin
I was mainly responsible for building the two apps of a tourism and ticket-selling platform for events in Cotonou and Africa: one for clients and the second for organisers' agents. - Built a mobile client app that allows users to see and buy event tickets - Built a mobile agent app that allows to scan and sell events tickets - Implemented a mono repo codebases in order to speed up the development time
Manager & Tech Lead
imonero
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
9 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
We aim to build products around fintech and e-commerce as well as provide websites and mobile app development for our clients.
Futurix
Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
1 year 3 months
Delaware, OH 43015, USA
Full Stack Engineer
Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
1 year 3 months
Delaware, OH 43015, USA
- Led the technical development of Cashless Africa, a mobile app focused on enabling access to VISA cards and Mastercards to people through mobile money in Africa with over 1000+ users - Built the front-end mobile application of Cashless Africa (mentioned above) - Built a custom after-sales platform on top of Flutter and Firebase improving the way sales teams interact with our customers on both mobile and web side - Built web and mobile apps around e-commerce, cryptocurrencies and online betting for our clients
Software Engineering Contractor
Feb 2022 - May 2022
4 months
Delaware, OH 43015, USA
- Integrated Express backend in Flutter both mobile and web apps for a client in Fintech for an MVP for online betting to help them manage more than 10k merchants across Africa. - Worked on crypto-currencies buying an app with roughly 2k$/month as transaction traffic mostly as a frontend mobile developer.
Mid-Level Software Engineer
Integracom Group
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
6 months
Cotonou, Benin
It was my last professional internship. These ones are the tasks I had to do: - Redesign of existing code bases. - Designing websites and mobile applications with Flutter and open source BaaS. - Consulting and implementing strategies to optimize the performance of our websites and provide an optimal customer experience and easy maintenance.
Flutter & Backend Developer
Freelance
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
1 year 5 months
Cotonou, Benin
I work as a freelance developer mainly focused on Flutter and Firebase. I also use Laravel / Node.js for pure web projects. You can take a tour in the projects section of my profile.
Software Engineer at Pulse
Epitech Bénin
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
6 months
Cotonou, Benin
Working on various projects and fields in order to solve customer problems. From Chatbot and Automation to mobile app optimization and development both for internal purposes or client-side purposes. My missions are: - Leading teams - Code refactoring and optimization - Mobile app development - Deployment and chat automation - Giving talks and host workshops related mobile and web development
Flutter Developer
GLOBAL CONSULTING TECHNOLOGY
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
7 months
Cotonou, Benin
- Built and designed a fully functional Flutter e-commerce app that relies on WordPress and Woocommerce - Updated the dart Woocommerce base package in order to add Dokan capabilities through their API - Deployed app both on PlayStore and AppStore
Web Developer
Gounou®
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
7 months
Cotonou, Benin
I am working on the development and maintenance of Gounou's website. My mission is to improve the site while remaining agile. - Analytics tools integration - Redesign the website according to the brand's marketing goals - Improve the website's SEO - Adding new functionalities to the admin panel such as a blog management system builder from scratch, reduction coupon, and product management system. - Optimize the global website performance
Mobile and Web Developer
GURULAB SAS
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
4 months
Cotonou, Benin
During this internship, I've learned about: - Using Laravel as backend and Blade templating as front end to make a full and complete web application - Using React as front end and deal with API and set also deal with Express and MongoDB as back end (MERN Stack) - Using React Native to build mobile apps
Flutter Developer
Epitech Bénin
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
3 months
Cotonou, Benin
The main goal of this internship was to build an MVP for an application sponsorised by UNICEF. It was about essentially: - Building responsive and interactive UI/UX for a mobile app. - Use Firebase as Backend for a project - Improving my team skills
Education
EPITECH - European Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
2019 - 2023
3 years 11 months
Epitech is a computer science university that aims to train in 5 years experts in computer science able to respond effectively to current challenges that face the world and the whole tech industry.
Licenses & certifications
Google Developer Student Clubs Lead Completion Certificate
Issued: Aug 2022
Flutter Developper Bootcamp
Issued: Aug 2021
Portfolio

Popote Grocery Delivery App - Development Case Study

Enhancing Tama, an e-book marketplace
