Samaila Bala
Founding Engineer at Rulebase (YC F24)
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSamaila Bala is a product-focused founding engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable web and cross-platform mobile products, currently shaping early-stage architecture at Rulebase (YC F24). He has a strong track record modernizing legacy stacks—migrating projects to TypeScript and Next.js—and shipping React Native apps that accelerated user acquisition and fundraising for creator and payments products. His work spans web, mobile, REST/GraphQL integration, and Web3 content access, combined with pragmatic QA and E2E testing to maintain high code quality. Based in the UK, he pairs an MSc in Artificial Intelligence with hands-on engineering, bringing an uncommon blend of ML-informed thinking to product engineering. Colleagues rely on him for reusable design systems and analytics-driven product improvements that cut time-to-feature and improve decision-making.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, SokotoMaster of Science - MSc Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MSc Artificial Intelligence at The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (110)
ruby10
automation10
api10
android-apps10
lucid10
android10
javascript9
rest9
image-generator9
apollographql9
cms9
dashboard9
apollo-client9
react-native9
ios9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sa-ma/senate-directory
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
A directory containing the contact details of the Nigerian Senate Members
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
membersdirectorynigeriandetailssenate
babadee001/HelloBooks-maesters
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 2 months
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