Jacques Ikot
Founding Product Engineer at Reach AI
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolJacques Ikot is a Founding Product Engineer with five years of hands-on experience building AI-driven software and full-stack applications using TypeScript, Node, React and React Native. He has shipped user-facing features and UX fixes at Appsmith—an open-source platform for building internal tools—where he focused on front-end improvements like dynamic table widgets and template screens. Before founding Reach AI, Jacques held technical leadership roles including CTO at Ricive and Full Stack Developer at Founders Workshop, helping African businesses scale operationally. Based in Lagos, he combines product intuition with engineering rigor to turn ambiguous problems into practical, user-centered systems. An unconventional background in civil engineering informs his systems thinking and pragmatic approach to design and infrastructure.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Civil Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Civil Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology
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Github Skills (8)
typescript10
javascript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
css8
html7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
appsmithorg/appsmith
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:176 reviews, 142 PRs, 442 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacques primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Appsmith platform. Their work focused on implementing and improving the user interface, including fixing bugs, and adding new features. They updated the UI for the template screens, implemented dynamic row height calculations and validation for table widgets, and addressed issues related to tooltips and select column functionality within the table widget.
custom-internaldeveloper-toolslow-code-frameworkcrudinternal-tools
jacquesikot/peza-mobile-apps
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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