N. C. Lucien · Software Engineer

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Full-stack & Infrastructure Engineer · Remote EU / US

Nde Che
LucienShips whole products solo

Six years taking products from a blank repo to production: Nx monorepos, NestJS services on gRPC, Next.js and React Native clients, Postgres, and the servers they run on. Every product on the board has a case study and a section called what broke.

Passenger: N. C. Lucien
Status: Available
From: Yaoundé · GMT+1
Bound for: Remote EU / US
Issued: Sep 2026

Years to prod: 6
Shipped: 8
Crew: 1

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Departures · shipped workYaoundé · UTC+01:00 · --:--:-- · Updated Sept 2026

Departures board: featured shipped work and current availability
Time	Product	Destination	Pax	Crew	Status
2026	VERTEX READER · case study	PRODUCTION	230+	1	SHIPPED
2026	REMOTE & LEDGER · case study	OPEN SOURCE	—	1	SHIPPED
2026	CLIPWRIGHT · case study	OPEN SOURCE	—	1	SHIPPED
2026	THE EZZ SHOW · case study	PRODUCTION	50+ ROOMS	1	BOARDING
2026	DROPPORT · case study	OPEN SOURCE	634 WEEKLY DOWNLOADS	1	SHIPPED
2026	SLEEPING BEAUTY · case study	PRODUCTION	15	1	RUNNING
NOW	PRINCIPIA · case study	OPEN SOURCE	—	2	RUNNING
NOW	NDE CHE LUCIEN · contact	REMOTE EU/US	—	1	AVAILABLE

Statuses are true. Delayed is allowed.All departures →

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Case studies

Architecture first · what broke last

Manga and manhwa reader aggregating 50+ sources into one library, with an LLM that writes and versions its own scrapers.

~230 beta users
55 sources
Crew 1

The Remote & Ledger

An open-source, local-first job tracker that tailors your résumé to every job with your own AI — printed like a newspaper.

~29k lines of TypeScript
11 — 4 CLI, 7 API aI runners
Crew 1

Turns a scripted browser session into a short-form how-to video, with captions that match the voice character for character.

3 surfaces
3 tTS engines
Crew 1

Real-time multiplayer puzzle arena: code-based rooms, rebus and word puzzles, server-authoritative scoring.

50+ rooms hosted
200+ puzzles live
Crew 1

Local dev servers at real hostnames over HTTPS, with no port numbers. A thin wrapper around Caddy.

0.2.6 npm
5,009ms → 3–9ms .local lookup
Crew 1

Sleeping Beauty

A lateness leaderboard whose rules are data: effective-dated rulesets, an append-only ledger, cosmetic consequences only.

~15 team members
128 commits
Crew 1

A free study desk for macOS, Windows and Linux: classes with a personal starting point, lessons your own AI tutor writes from primary documentation, study times that ring, and a lock you choose and can always undo.

9 + yours classes
300 curriculum topics
Crew 2