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Fon E. Noel Nfebe

Founder & Director of Engineering

I founded WhileSmart in 2021 to build tools that make everyday life and work easier. We sell our own products, build software to order, and keep it running.

Founder @ WhileSmartOpen core, shippedAI infrastructureCameroon

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EverythingContext engineerFounderOpen source engineerAutomation & infra
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01 // projects

Things I build

SourceAnt logoproj[0]

SourceAnt

sourceant.ai

Open-source infrastructure for engineering knowledge and context. Serves code structure, decisions, and system topology to MCP clients.

pythonmcpopen-source
FlatRun logoproj[1]

FlatRun

flatrun.dev

Turns one server into a self-operating platform: deploys, SSL, DNS, backups, and agents defined as plain markdown files.

goagentsself-hosted
SmartQL logoproj[2]

SmartQL

smartql.dev

Natural language to SQL, database first. A YAML semantic layer, real AST validation, and any model via LiteLLM. On PyPI.

pythonllmopen-source
Trakli logoproj[3]

Trakli

trakli.app

Open-source, privacy-focused personal finance. Say what happened and the assistant logs it, proposing every change before it writes.

laravelfluttermcp

02 // experience

Where I've spent my time

  1. 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.

  2. 2021 — now

    Founder & Director of Engineering · WhileSmart

    Founded WhileSmart in 2021 to build tools that make everyday life and work easier.

  3. 2021 — 2023

    Backend Engineering Consultant · Open Tech Strategies

    Open-source consulting: QA and test infrastructure in Python and Terraform, PHP backend for Permanent.org, and release management for Tahoe-LAFS via Internews.

  4. 2019 — 2022

    Director of Training & Instructor · Seven Advanced Academy

    Led the training program and taught full-stack development from fundamentals up. Two and a half years of turning hard technical material into something a beginner can act on.

  5. 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.

03 // writing

Things I write

  1. 2026-08-071 min

    What I actually want my CV to look like

    I sell spades and shovels.

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04 // github

Live from GitHub

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5,669 contributions, last year 78 public repos342 active days53 followers

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05 // open source

Contributions

whilesmartgo/agents

Author · Go tool-calling agent runtime

eloquent-agents

Author · Laravel agent toolkit

Nextcloud

Core contributor · PHP, Vue

Tahoe-LAFS

Testing & Release Manager

Permanent.org

Backend Engineer

Submitty

GSoC · automation

Systers Portal

GSoC · Python/Django

phpMyAdmin

Contributor

06 // stack

What I work with

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Tool-calling agentsMCPLiteLLMPrismKnowledge graphsContext pipelines

// languages

PythonPHPGoTypeScriptJavaScriptDartSQL

// frameworks

LaravelVue.jsFastAPIDjangoFlutterSymfony

// infra

DockerKubernetesCI/CDBuildbotTerraformAWSGCP

// domains

Open sourceDeveloper toolsFintech & paymentsTest automationTechnical teaching

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