// hello_world

Fon E. Noel Nfebe

Founder of WhileSmart, builder and creator. A decade of building open source, developer tools, and fintech.

Founder @ WhileSmartBuilder & creatorOpen source, 2× GSoCEngineer @ Nextcloud

01 // experience

Where I've worked

2023 — now
Software Engineer · Nextcloud GmbH
Core contributor to the open-source collaboration platform used by millions. PHP and Vue across the server and its apps.
2019 — now
Founder & Director of Engineering · WhileSmart
Building a product studio and engineering team in Cameroon: payments, developer tools, and AI products, from zero to launch.
2021 — 2023
Backend Engineering Consultant · Open Tech Strategies
Open-source consulting: QA and test infrastructure, PHP backend for Permanent.org, and release management for Tahoe-LAFS via Internews.
2020 — 2021
Automation Engineer, freelance · Upwork
Full-stack and automation contracts for clients worldwide: sysadmin, CI/CD, and web development.
2019 — 2022
Director of Training & Instructor · Seven Advanced Academy
Led the training program and taught full-stack development to the next generation of Cameroonian engineers.
2018 — 2019
Google Summer of Code, twice · Submitty (RPI) / Systers (AnitaB.org)
Built Buildbot test infrastructure for Submitty; Python and Django work on the Systers Portal.

02 // projects

Things I maintain

Trakli trakli.app

Open-source, privacy-focused personal finance tracking. AI-native income and expense insights on web and mobile.

laravelflutteropen-source

SourceAnt sourceant.ai

Self-hostable, AI-assisted code review and agentic automation. Multi-model via LiteLLM, driven by GitHub webhooks.

pythonaiopen-source

Flatrun flatrun.dev

Turns one server into a full hosting control plane: deploys, SSL, DNS, backups, and a built-in AI assistant, all on plain files.

goself-hostedopen-source

03 // github

Live from GitHub

// @nfebe

5,095 contributions, last year80 public repos338 active days53 followers

api.github.com · refreshed at each deploy · snapshot 2026-07-22

// recent activity

nfebe/nfebe.mepushed · 2026-07-22
trakli/webservicepushed · 2026-07-22
whilesmartphp/eloquent-campaignspushed · 2026-07-22
whilesmartphp/eloquent-holdingspushed · 2026-07-22

04 // open source

Contributions

Nextcloud

Core contributor · PHP, Vue

Tahoe-LAFS

Testing & Release Manager

Permanent.org

Backend Engineer

Submitty

GSoC · automation

Systers Portal

GSoC · Python/Django

phpMyAdmin

Contributor

05 // stack

What I work with

// languages

PythonPHPJavaScriptTypeScriptSQL

// frameworks

LaravelVue.jsDjangoFlaskSymfony

// infra

DockerKubernetesCI/CDBuildbotTerraformAWSGCP

// domains

Open sourceFintech & paymentsTest automationSSO & federated authML / NLP

06 // writing & mentions

Words, mine and others'

// written by me

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// written about me

Code from Cameroon: a founder's road to open sourceOpen Source Global Voices
GSoC 2019: Buildbot for Submittysubmitty.org
PHP devs to follow on TwitterDEV Community

07 // education

Where I studied

// 2021 — 2023

MTech, Software Engineering & Computing

University of Buea

// 2015 — 2018

BTech, Computer Engineering

University of Buea

// first lines of code: high school, pre-2015