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Hubert
Formin

Portrait of Hubert Formin

Lead frontend engineer and product designer. Eight years building fintech, DeFi and payment interfaces — the kind where a mistake costs someone real money.

“I don't need a designer. I save time by doing both, and shipping the final product.”

Selected workStart a project
Location
Yaoundé, CM
Experience
08 YRS
Focus
Fintech / DeFi
Discipline
Design + Build
Status
Available

§01

Selected work

Where I've built things that carry money.

01

Lead Frontend Engineer

May 2024 — Present /Remote

NeoWorlder Enterprises

  • Architecting responsive interfaces for complex blockchain applications in React, Next.js and TypeScript.
  • Building DeFi protocol experiences with MetaMask and WalletConnect integration.
  • Built a design system that keeps prototypes and production code in sync, cutting production time by 40%.

02

CTO & Lead Frontend Engineer

Feb 2024 — Present /Hybrid

KwikNkap Technologies

  • Bootstrapped and architected the entire frontend and backend infrastructure for the fintech platform.
  • Now serving 100+ live merchants across MTN Mobile Money and Orange Money.
  • Lead the design and build of high-performance payment dashboards using Zustand and Tailwind.
  • Own the platform experience end to end, from Figma through to production code.

03

Product Designer, Fintech & Crypto

Oct 2020 — Jun 2021 /Remote

Ejara

  • Refined the interaction model for Francophone Africa's leading investment platform, covering crypto and fractional shares.
  • Ran usability testing on mobile to sharpen UI assets, brand style guides and user journeys.

04

Co-Founder & CTO

Jul 2018 — Oct 2020 /Yaoundé

Enchird Technologies

  • Led design and delivery of a mobile platform for the British High Commission of Ghana, built to help get children off the streets.
  • Managed the full lifecycle for client work, delivering inventory systems that cut operating costs by 20%.
  • Supervised and mentored a team of four engineers and six interns.
Full background, skills, education →

§02

Venture

KwikNkap

CTO & Lead Frontend Engineer

Payments infrastructure for Cameroonian businesses. I bootstrapped the architecture, built the platform, and own the experience merchants use every day to get paid.

kwiknkap.com →
100+
Merchants live
2
Mobile money rails
2024
Founded

§03

Evidence

Work that outlived the project that made it.

Open source

01

electron-pos-printer

13,000+ npm downloads and 300+ GitHub stars. Thermal receipt printing for Electron — a core dependency for point-of-sale developers who needed it to just work.

View source →

Public sector

02

British High Commission of Ghana

Architected and delivered a mobile platform as CTO, from ideation through to launch, supporting a programme to get children off the streets.

Domain

03

Money moves through what I build

Transactional interfaces for crypto at Ejara and payments at KwikNkap. Interfaces where a mistake costs someone real money get built differently.

§04

Building now

Lorekeep

In development

Your campaign, remembered.

An AI campaign assistant for tabletop RPG Game Masters. Drop in your session notes or a voice memo and Lorekeep builds a living wiki of every NPC, location and plot thread — then answers questions about your own campaign, writes the recap, and hands you a prep sheet before the next session.

  • 01Session-note extraction from text or voice memos
  • 02A campaign wiki that maintains itself as you play
  • 03Ask-your-campaign chat, cited back to the session it came from
  • 04"Previously on…" recaps in your campaign's own voice
  • 05Prep sheets covering loose threads and the NPCs in play

Early access

STATUS: Ready

§05

Get in touch

I take on a few projects a year. Tell me about yours.

Web applications and frontend engineering, usually where design and build shouldn't be two separate conversations.

Email
hello@hformin.dev
Based in
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Typical reply
Under 48h

STATUS: Ready