Prince
Gbalam

Available for Freelance

Building full-stack web applications, developer tools & real-time distributed systems.

Software
Engineer

I'm a software engineer who builds full-stack web applications, developer tools, and real-time distributed systems, previously on the platform team behind Deel's global payroll.I also built Notling, an open-source Notion alternative, and Monarch, a type-safe ORM for MongoDB.

Notling

A blazing fast open-source Notion alternative.

Live

TanStack Start • React 19 • Yjs • PostgreSQL • Drizzle

Monarch

Developer-first, type-safe MongoDB ODM with schema inference, autocompletion and compile-time validation.

Live

TypeScript • MongoDB • Node.js

Qlip

Peer-to-peer clipboard sync transferring text, images, and files over local network without the cloud.

Live

React Native • Rust • mDNS • Next.js

FlagControl

Feature flag management platform with low-latency client SDKs for gradual rollouts and experiments.

Live

Next.js • TypeScript • Node.js • Monarch ORM

Deel

Software Engineer

2024-2026

Built internal tools and telemetry dashboards supporting global payroll operations across 100+ countries, cutting incident triage time by 30% through automated error inspection.

Complete Education Solutions

Software Engineer

2023-2024

Modernized legacy services and optimized query performance, reducing p95 API response times by 42% across platform modules serving 200k+ students.

AstroSoft Development Agency

Full Stack Engineer

2020-2022

Delivered 12+ production client applications from scratch, cutting delivery cycles by 30% through reusable component architectures and CI/CD pipelines.