I enjoy understanding how systems work—from user behavior to backend architecture—before building solutions. I believe the best software starts with understanding the problem deeply, then engineering simple, scalable systems that people genuinely enjoy using.

Currently building production-ready applications with React, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, AWS, and REST APIs.

CalorieBank is a full-stack calorie banking application that rethinks nutrition by treating calories like a bank account instead of a daily limit. Rather than focusing on restriction, it helps users budget calories across the week while staying on track with long-term nutrition goals.

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

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

https://github.com/PhilBKouokam/CalorieBank

• Built a RESTful Express API with JWT authentication and protected routes
• Designed MongoDB schemas with Mongoose for users, food logs, and activities
• Implemented backend-driven calorie banking business logic
• Integrated AWS S3 for secure food image uploads
• Managed shared application state using React Context
• Deployed a production-ready architecture using Vercel, Render, MongoDB Atlas, and AWS

A production-ready calorie banking platform built with React, Express, MongoDB, JWT authentication, and AWS S3.

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

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

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

Personal finance tracker with expense analytics, AWS S3 receipt uploads, and secure authentication.

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

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

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

Full-stack habit tracking application featuring JWT authentication, React Context, protected REST APIs, and MongoDB persistence.

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

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

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

Designed a highly available AWS architecture using EC2, VPC, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling Groups, CloudWatch, and SNS.

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

Built an event-driven ETL pipeline using AWS Lambda, Glue, S3, IAM, and Python.

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

• React
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS
• Tailwind CSS

• Node.js
• Express
• REST APIs
• JWT Authentication

• MongoDB
• AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch)

• Git
• GitHub
• Postman
• VS Code
• Codex

The principles that guide how I build software:

• Understand the problem before designing the solution.
• Build around real user behavior instead of assumptions.
• Keep business logic close to the source of truth.
• Prefer simple, maintainable architectures over unnecessary complexity.
• Ship early, gather feedback, and continuously improve.

🌐 Portfolio
https://philbk.dev

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

💻 GitHub
https://github.com/PhilBKouokam

📧 Email
philliptchuenkam@gmail.com