Alade Yessoufou
I build and operate TypeScript products end to end, from polished React interfaces and backend APIs to testing, deployment automation, and production reliability.
Available for a remote permanent role or long-term contract. Based in Benin, GMT+1, with full European and partial US-East overlap. B2B contracting or EOR works.
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GitHub Contributions
Projects (6)
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One bilingual platform for focused web tools, built as independently deployed TanStack Start applications with shared product infrastructure.
- 35 independently deployed tools across dedicated subdomains
- 8 shared packages for UI, configuration, i18n, auth, app conventions, analytics, and QR generation
- French and English delivery with 47 colocated test files
- tanstack start
- pocketbase
- monorepo
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A TypeScript CLI for deploying Node.js products to a VPS without Kubernetes or vendor lock-in. It treats safe releases, operations, and security as one developer workflow.
- Blue-green zero-downtime releases with health-gated traffic switching
- Automatic rollback, multi-app workspaces, PM2, Caddy, backups, and SSH hardening
- 35 GitHub stars and 7 forks from real external users
- typescript
- cli
- devops
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A WhatsApp AI agent for small businesses. It answers customer messages autonomously from a knowledge base the owner fills in, and escalates to the owner when it is not confident.
- WhatsApp number pairing, live connection status, and a warmup ramp on send capacity
- Escalation queue with reminders, plus learned answers captured back into the knowledge base
- AdonisJS, Inertia React, and a background worker, shipped bilingual for West Africa and France
- adonisjs
- react
- ai
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An executable educational programming language with French syntax — lexer, parser, AST, and JavaScript code generator, with a browser playground.
- typescript
- compilers
- education
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A reproducible Node.js benchmark comparing Turso, better-sqlite3, and node:sqlite across micro, concurrent, and production-shaped workloads.
- node.js
- sqlite
- benchmarking
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An HTML attribute-driven form-validation library with a React integration, designed around a small declarative API.
- typescript
- react
- accessibility
Writing (11)
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Accumulating Knowledge Can Slow You Down
Learning gives us more options, but knowing too many ways to begin can make it harder to take the first step.
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Slowing Down My Thinking
Why slowing down my thoughts helps me find clarity, protect simple ideas, and focus on what matters.
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Bypassing Ad-Blockers for PostHog with a Cloudflare Worker
I set up the standard reverse proxy for PostHog and thought I was done. Ad-blockers still killed my session replays. Here's why the filename posthog-recorder.js is on more filter lists than the domain posthog.com, and the ~30 lines of Worker code that finally fixed it.
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Diagnosing a Flash of Unstyled Content in TanStack Start Production
A landing page that looked perfect in dev showed one second of raw, unstyled HTML in production. The bug wasn't where I expected. Here's how I found it.
Stack
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Go
- Bash
- React
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- React Native
- Svelte
- Node.js
- REST APIs
- GraphQL
- Cloudflare Workers
- Testing
- CI/CD
- Git
- Docker
- Turborepo
FAQ
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Who is Alade Yessoufou?
Alade Yessoufou, also known as Charaf or devalade, is a Full-Stack TypeScript Engineer with over three years of paid experience. He ships React and Node.js products and builds developer platforms.
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What technologies do you work with?
I primarily work with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node.js. I also have experience with React Native, Cloudflare Workers, deployment automation (Kamal), and various databases and cloud platforms.
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Are you available for remote work?
Yes. I am based in Benin at GMT+1 and available for a remote permanent role or long-term contract through direct B2B contracting or an employer of record. I overlap fully with Europe and partially with US-East.
