Backend Engineer
I build the parts nobody sees, and that's exactly how I like it. I've got your back(end).
//not all heroes wear capes. some just write clean commits.
About
I work on backend systems. APIs, queues, databases — the bits that have to keep working when nobody's watching. Right now I'm learning my way into AI and ML, which has been humbling in roughly the way you'd expect.
I'm quiet until you ask the right question. Distributed systems, why anything works, how things break — once we're there, I'll happily lose track of time.
Current setup
nvim + tmux + lazygit + zsh. If it doesn't have a terminal interface, I'm suspicious of it.
Currently exploring
Off the clock
Marvel. DC. Every animated film ever made. Dad jokes — the worse, the better.
Operating principle
Perfectionist. Lazy about it. The combination somehow always works.
Selected work
Galleria — Event Photo Sharing Powered by Face Recognition
shippedAn event photo platform where attendees scan their face once and get back only the photos they're in — built on RetinaFace detection, ArcFace embeddings, and an async Celery pipeline that processes uploads at scale.
Settle — Payment Collection Infrastructure for Nigerian SMEs
shippedA virtual-account payment collection platform built on Nomba's APIs — automatic per-customer reconciliation, calendar-correct recurring billing, and a developer API the dashboard itself runs on.
Flint — Background Job Scheduler Built From Scratch
shippedA priority-queue job scheduler with DAG workflows, retry backoff, a dead letter queue, and real-time updates — no Celery, no external broker.
Experience
HNG Internship — Anvila & Insighta Labs
InternshipTech lead over an 11-engineer backend and frontend team building Anvila, an AI-agent manifest generator, shipped in under a month. Alongside that, built Insighta Labs solo — a demographic-intelligence API with dual OAuth and a rule-based natural-language query parser.
Writing
Contact
Open to backend roles, AI/ML adjacent work, interesting problems, conversations about systems, AI, conversations that don't start with “circle back,” or why Neovim is still relevant in 2026. (It is.)