Engineer · Advocate · Builder

Technology is better when more people feel invited in.

I’m Nikema Prophet. I build thoughtful software, explore practical AI, and turn what I learn into useful stories for the developer community.

THE SIGNAL
Building in public
Human-centered AI
Learning out loud
Open source activity

What I’m shipping.

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Notes from the work

Ideas in motion.

A running feed of experiments, lessons, projects, and honest notes from a career in technology.

I made the case studies repo public

My case studies repo is public: github.com/prophen/case studies. It's the source behind work.nikema.dev, field notes on building MotionBrief and the Social Content Agent in public,

Site Redesign

I redesigned this site last night. What do you think? https://nikema.dev

Designing a Human-in-the-Loop AI Content Workflow

Social Content Agent is a deployed, AI assisted LinkedIn content workflow built with Next.js, OpenAI, Supabase, and Vercel. It treats an LLM generated post as a reviewable starting

I wanted to see what an AI podcast co host would be like. This was my first time trying it out using LiveKit and OpenAI. I had some technical difficulties with using the playground

I just spent a lot of credits adding livestreaming to this site using Mux. I might write a blog post about how I would approach this differently with what I know now.

I have three recruiter screens this week for developer advocate roles. Wish me luck!

Posing on the rooftop at Ponce City Market

Leaders from Zillow in a panel on the future of work

I’m going to take any chance I get to hear Kelsey Hightower speak. He really has a way of connecting with the audience