Staff Software Engineer—Product + Platform, Data/AI, Real-Time Systems
Product-minded engineering lead with 9+ years building and scaling SaaS: shipping 0→1, leading small teams, and hardening systems for reliability. Strong in TypeScript/React, Node.js, Go, Python, and PostgreSQL. Shipped LLM-powered analytics workflows and real-time audio/WebRTC systems. Track record improving uptime (~99.9%), cutting defects (80%+), and driving measurable product growth.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer Jul 2025–Present
- Promoted to Staff Engineer following Rentgrata’s acquisition by Opiniion; operating across product, platform, and architecture to support the merged engineering organization.
- Leading the re-architecture of Opiniion + Rentgrata product foundations into a unified platform designed for AI-assisted workflows, clearer domain boundaries, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop operations.
- Redesigned the reward eligibility, processing, and payment pipeline for rewarded residents and prospects, eliminating recurring payout and eligibility bugs for 3+ months.
- Designed and led the progressive migration of resident-facing product surfaces across domains with no downtime, bringing engineering and product alignment to a previously chaotic migration effort.
- Embedded with product teams to provide architectural oversight, unblock delivery, reduce implementation ambiguity, and improve execution quality across cross-functional initiatives.
- Led a zero-downtime brand and domain migration for resident-facing product surfaces, preserving backward compatibility across emails, links, and legacy routes through staged 302→301 redirects.
Technical Team Lead Nov 2023–Jul 2025
- Led the architecture and launch of Ari and drove 60% growth in dashboard adoption post-launch.
- Redesigned workflows into intuitive single-page UIs, reducing friction for property managers and operators.
- Implemented trunk-based development + containerized CI, reducing production bugs by 85%, sustaining 99.9% uptime, and reducing code review to production deployment time from days to minutes or hours.
- Mentored engineers and set technical direction, bridging product and engineering execution.
Senior Software Engineer III May 2020–Nov 2023
- Migrated the widget platform to TypeScript + React, reducing bundle size by 60% and eliminating release rollbacks for 12 months.
- Shaped data-driven product improvements with design-system components, cross-domain messaging, and A/B tests.
Software Developer Nov 2018–Jul 2019
- Built the flagship widget SDK; increased conversion 163% in 2 months and improved setup and observability.
Full-stack Software Developer Jul 2019–May 2020
- Built and maintained a customer-feedback analytics platform aggregating emails, social channels, app stores, Twitter, email bots, and Zapier integrations.
- Remodeled 35+ database schemas and APIs, improving performance and making the system easier for product and engineering teams to extend.
- Automated integration testing and deployment workflows with CircleCI and AWS CodeDeploy, improving release confidence and incident recovery.
Software Developer Mar 2017–Nov 2018
- Migrated the AngularJS client to React, lifting developer productivity by 50% and stability by 70%.
- Contributed to the migration of 12+ microservices to Mali.js from various stacks, including Go and Ruby, accelerating onboarding and backend stability.
Ventures
ReferentGround
Builder·2026–Present
Model-agnostic evidence and learning layer for AI-generated software work.
- Built a TypeScript/Bun CLI and emerging cloud platform that turns codebases into deterministic, versioned software graphs for AI-assisted engineering, capability-level review, and audit-ready evidence.
- Designed parsing, extraction, graph snapshots, pathfinding, query, and bounded context-pack generation across TypeScript/Node monorepos.
- Built deterministic provenance and quality gates so generated context, capability paths, and AI-assisted changes can be replayed, diffed, and validated across repository revisions.
- Developed the product strategy around agent change governance: reviewable capability diffs, private evals, institutional memory, and grounded context packs.
Education
University of Oxford, Saïd Business School · Oxford Fintech Programme Jun 2024–Aug 2024
Capstone: designed “Klay,” a multi-currency neo-bank concept with FX-hedging, AML/KYC, and modern rails.
University of Nigeria · B.Sc. Psychology Sept 2010–Sept 2014
Leadership & community
Facebook Developers Circle · Community Lead · Lagos, Nigeria Sept 2018–May 2020
Mentorship, workshops, and curriculum development for the ReactJS and startup-learners community.
Capabilities
Core strengths
- 0→1 execution: prototype → production, fast iteration with strong engineering fundamentals
- Technical leadership: ownership, mentoring, cross-functional alignment, architecture decisions
- Data & AI: analytics pipelines, query/DSL design, dashboarding, experimentation
- Systems: reliability, CI/CD, event-driven design, performance & observability
- Platform: developer experience, environment provisioning, reliability guardrails, internal tooling
Tech stack
- Languages
- TypeScript, Go, Python, SQL
- Frontend
- React/Next.js, Svelte, Vue.js, design systems, Tailwind
- Backend
- Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, CDC (Debezium)
- AI
- RAG patterns, prompt/DSL design, analytics generation
- Infra
- AWS (Lambda/ECS/SQS), Terraform, Docker, CI (GitHub Actions/CircleCI)
- Real-time
- Web Audio API, WebRTC (LiveKit)