(Index ／ 01)
Founder, Portforge
ENGBUITHIFOU

ENGINEER·BUILDER·THINKER·FOUNDER

EmmanuelAdiba

Software developer at Global Tech Network, founder of Portforge Technologies, and learning in public at the seam between code and cognition. Based in Bolgatanga.

(Currently)

Software Engineer
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(Profile ／ 02)

Engineer.
Builder.
Thinker.
Founder.

Full biography
I design and ship resilient systems — payment flows that move real money, a microservice trading engine, operational software for importers and retailers. I care about clean architecture, small surface areas, and code that quietly survives.

5+

Years shipping production software

15K+

Active users on a news aggregator I built at Turntabl

2

Products run by Portforge — one live, one in early access

1

Separate venture in early beta — Wayve

(Selected ／ 03)

Things I’ve shipped.

／01

GearDockGH

Technology retail for the Upper East.

Live · taking and delivering orders in Bolgatanga

↗ geardockgh.com · Portforge Technologies

／02

ImportBrain

Landed cost and margin for Ghana’s importers.

Built from Mar 2026 · paid plans opened Oct 2026

↗ importbrain.net · Portforge Technologies

／03

Wayve

Plan Ghana together.

Early beta · web and mobile

↗ joinwayve.com

／04

iTargetGolf

Golf tournament platform.

Client product · GTN LLC

Details on the projects page

(Pillar Log ／ 04)

Four pillars. Four artifacts,
each one dated.

Most portfolios claim. This one shows the most recent piece of client work, side build, experiment and venture milestone — with the month it happened, so you can judge how fresh it is.

  • ／01 · ENGINEER

    Vacation Branson — multi-product Laravel platform

    Client work at GTN, alongside the Compliance Scorecard MCP server.

    → see client work
  • ／02 · BUILDER

    BookLoop — book exchange MVP, source on GitHub

    NestJS API, Expo app and Next.js admin. Not launched.

    ↗ read the code
  • ／03 · THINKER

    House prices — a leak-free regression pipeline

    5-fold CV RMSE 0.1271 against a Kaggle public score of 0.13211.

    → see the lab
  • ／04 · FOUNDER

    ImportBrain opens paid plans

    Paystack billing, with a founder plan capped at 20 accounts.

    ↗ open importbrain.net

(Journey ／ 05)

Not a résumé.
A path.

The full path
  1. 2026 — PresentFounder · EngineerPortforge Technologies · Wayve · Founder
  2. Feb 2024 — PresentSoftware DeveloperGlobal Tech Network · Remote
  3. Sep 2023 — Jan 2024Software DeveloperSendAfrika · Contract
  4. Oct 2021 — Aug 2022Software DeveloperSoftmelon Engineering · Part-time
  5. Sep 2021 — Aug 2023Software EngineerTurntabl Ghana · Full-time
  6. 2016 — 2020BSc, Computer EngineeringUniversity of Energy and Natural Resources

(Contact ／ 06)

Have an
idea?
Let’s talk.

Open to engineering roles and collaborations — write to me directly. Building software for a business? That runs through Portforge Technologies.