About

Kara Sune
馃尰

OSS Freecodecamp, Better-auth, and Tailarkui

I'm a Frontend Engineer. I'm originally from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I owe most of what I know to open source and teaching myself.

I started the way most people do. Picking up tools, following tutorials, shipping things that looked finished but did not hold up under real conditions.

At some point I stopped trying to learn more things and started trying to understand fewer things better. That shift changed everything about how I build.

Day to day I work mostly in Next.js, Rust, and TypeScript.

Having strong opinions about how data moves through a system, how pages behave under real conditions, and how architecture decisions made early show up as problems later.

I use Drizzle ORM, Expo, TanStack Query, Neon, Polar.sh, Vercel AI SDK, and Upstash regularly enough that I can tell you exactly where each one gets annoying.

GetStream, Better-auth, Storybook, and tldraw round out the rest of the stack.

Outside the work I write about what I am building and running into on 饾晱.

And not advice for the sake of sounding senior, just the things I actually wish I had read when I was stuck on something.

If any of it lands for you, that is the point.

Things I've Built

Toolbox

Languages, frameworks, and systems I use regularly.

01

Frontend Engineering

Next.js 路 TypeScript 路 TanStack Query 路 shadcn/ui 路 Tailwind CSS

02

Mobile

Expo 路 React Native 路 EAS Build

03

Backend & APIs

Rust 路 Python 路 Node.js 路 Hono 路 tRPC 路 GraphQL 路 REST

04

Data & Databases

Drizzle ORM 路 Neon 路 PostgreSQL 路 PGVector 路 Prisma 路 SQLite

05

Auth & Identity

Better Auth 路 Clerk 路 OAuth 路 Passkeys

06

AI & LLM Tooling

Vercel AI SDK 路 OpenAI SDK 路 Anthropic SDK 路 LangChain 路 RAG pipelines 路 Vector search 路 Agent frameworks 路 MCP

07

Real-Time Systems

WebSockets 路 Server-Sent Events 路 GetStream 路 WebRTC 路 Live collaboration

08

Caching & Infra

Upstash 路 Redis 路 Vercel 路 Cloudflare Workers

09

Design & Tooling

Figma 路 Storybook 路 Unsplash 路 Design tokens

10

DevOps & Delivery

GitHub Actions 路 Docker 路 CI/CD 路 Sentry 路 PostHog

Want to work together?

Email me