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Hi, I'm Kitani Islam

Lead Full-Stack Engineer • React, React Native, Node.js & AI Product Delivery

9+ years building web, mobile, and backend products across North Africa, Europe, and Asia. I lead product engineering, ship client-facing systems, and integrate practical AI/RAG capabilities where they improve the product.

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  • 9+ Years Experience
  • Fintech
  • Fitness
  • AI / RAG
Kitani Islam

What I’m Best At

Recruiter-friendly summary of where I create the most value across product engineering, delivery, and technical leadership.

Frontend & Mobile Product Engineering

React, React Native, Next.js, Vue, and Astro delivery for polished web and mobile experiences that are practical, fast, and ready for real users.

Backend Systems & API Architecture

Node.js, REST, GraphQL, database design, authorization, integrations, and API layers that keep products stable, scalable, and easier to extend.

AI Integration & RAG Workflows

Practical AI-powered product features, retrieval workflows, automation, and internal tools focused on usefulness rather than AI research theater.

Technical Leadership & Product Delivery

Team leadership, mentoring, release planning, client communication, code review, and turning product feedback into clear engineering priorities.

Featured Product Work

Selected product work across training platforms, meal planning, logistics, and conversion-focused web experiences.

Rep&Sets

Editorial Athlete Platform

Rep&Sets

A cross-platform training product for coaches and athletes, connecting routines, matrixes, exercises, videos, playback, and progress through one clear system.

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Fit2Go

Healthy Meal Subscription

Fit2Go

A prepared-meal ordering product where I was brought in to improve and gamify the plan-selection flow around goals, allergies, preferences, and weekly meal quantity.

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GoLivry

Delivery & Cash on Delivery

GoLivry

A logistics landing experience for Guinea, presenting delivery coverage, cash-on-delivery collection, merchant onboarding, and WhatsApp-led conversion in one focused flow.

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More Work Coming Soon

More projects coming soon

Additional product work, redesigns, and delivery stories will be added here as more case studies are prepared.

In progress

What People Say

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“Kitani was instrumental in developing Adsum Networks back-end cloud platform.”

Ismail Hamdad

Entrepreneur • AI Infrastructure & Product Strategy

June 22, 2020

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Tools I Build With

Production tools across frontend, mobile, backend, data, cloud, and delivery workflows.

React React
React Native React Native
Next.js Next.js
Vue Vue
Nuxt.js Nuxt.js
Astro Astro
TypeScript TypeScript
JavaScript JavaScript
HTML HTML
Expo Expo
Redux Redux
Node.js Node.js
Express.js Express.js
GraphQL GraphQL
REST APIs REST APIs
Zod Zod
Prisma Prisma
Java Java
CSS CSS
Tailwindcss Tailwindcss
SCSS SCSS
Styled Components Styled Components
React React
React Native React Native
Next.js Next.js
Vue Vue
Nuxt.js Nuxt.js
Astro Astro
TypeScript TypeScript
JavaScript JavaScript
HTML HTML
Expo Expo
Redux Redux
Node.js Node.js
Express.js Express.js
GraphQL GraphQL
REST APIs REST APIs
Zod Zod
Prisma Prisma
Java Java
CSS CSS
Tailwindcss Tailwindcss
SCSS SCSS
Styled Components Styled Components
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
MongoDB MongoDB
MySQL MySQL
Supabase Supabase
AWS AWS
Google Cloud Google Cloud
Azure Azure
Docker Docker
Heroku Heroku
Linux Linux
Git Git
GitHub GitHub
GitLab GitLab
GitHub Actions GitHub Actions
Jira Jira
Bash Bash
Stripe Stripe
OpenCV OpenCV
IOT IOT
Bitmex Bitmex
binance binance
Python Python
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
MongoDB MongoDB
MySQL MySQL
Supabase Supabase
AWS AWS
Google Cloud Google Cloud
Azure Azure
Docker Docker
Heroku Heroku
Linux Linux
Git Git
GitHub GitHub
GitLab GitLab
GitHub Actions GitHub Actions
Jira Jira
Bash Bash
Stripe Stripe
OpenCV OpenCV
IOT IOT
Bitmex Bitmex
binance binance
Python Python

Background & Technical Experience

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  1. Sep 2025 - Current

    Otonoco AI - Lead Software Engineer (Kuala Lumpur)

    Leading a fast-growing startup team building an AI product for regulatory monitoring in banking and insurance, with ownership of technical decisions, release planning, task assignment, and turning user feedback into product priorities.

  2. Jun 2024 - Current

    Trisilco - Lead Software Engineer (Kuala Lumpur)

    Led the company shift to JS-based web/mobile services, mentored .NET/C# developers through workshops and coding sessions, defined engineering workflows, and supported the public launch of CheckD Wallet with Dataswyft.

  3. Jun 2024 - Aug 2025

    KOHA - Lead Software Engineer (Kuala Lumpur)

    Led product delivery across mobile and web initiatives, including client onboarding flows, API optimization, data security and authorization, task ownership, and code reviews.

Education & Recognition

Academic background alongside professional achievements and industry recognition.

Computer Science

University of SAAD Dahlab Blida (USDB)

2015 - 2019 · Algeria

Specialized in Software Engineering and Computer Systems.

1st Place - NASA App Challenge 2016

NASA

2016

Won first place in the NASA App Challenge competition, developing an innovative solution for pandemic evacuation planning.

Catapult UK Recognition

Catapult Network UK

2020

Recognized by Catapult Network UK for pioneering IoT initiative in intelligent transportation systems.