Josue Kouka josuebrunel

Hi, I’m Josué Kouka

Senior Software Engineer / AI Automation Engineer
Vancouver, Canada · Remote-friendly
Go · Python · Distributed Systems · AI Automation

I’m a backend-focused engineer with ~10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and AI-powered SaaS products.

I specialize in:

Golang-first backend systems (microservices, data pipelines, infra tooling)
AI & automation using LLMs (Gemini, Gemma, LangChain-Go, n8n)
Product-minded engineering — shipping fast, clean, and reliable software
Founding & building Micro-SaaS & self-hosted tools from 0 → production → monetization

I enjoy working at the intersection of systems engineering, AI, and business value.

Languages: Go, Python, JavaScript / HTMX, SQL, Ruby (legacy)
Web Frameworks: Echo, Templ, HTMX, RiverQueue (job queues), Goose (migrations)
Backend & Data: Microservices, REST & GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Pub/Sub, ETL
AI / Automation: LLMs (Gemini, Gemma), LangChain-Go, Prompt engineering, AI workflows & agents, n8n, Ollama
Infra / DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Linux, Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Terraform, Ansible

TrialAbuse.com — Real-time fraud detection SaaS stopping free trial abuse and bonus fraud syndicates, with a 150+ signal detection engine delivering verdicts in under 70ms. (Go, Kubernetes, GCP, Redis, PostgreSQL, Stripe)
PropCopy.ai — AI-powered SaaS generating SEO-optimized property descriptions from photos. (Go, HTMX, Multimodal LLM, Stripe)
PromptRefiner — High-performance SaaS for AI prompt optimization. (Go, HTMX, LangChain-Go, Gemma)
Scrapions — Decentralized web scraping platform. (libp2p, Ethereum, Headless Chrome)
Nutmeg — Self-hosted stats tracker for pickup soccer groups, with an AI sports desk that writes satirical match reports and player roasts from real stats. (Go, Echo, Templ, HTMX, PostgreSQL, RiverQueue)

“Make it work. Make it right. Make it scale.”