I got into software because I needed a new place to live.
In my third year at the University of Benin, my rent went up and the place wasn't worth the new price. Finding somewhere else meant days of walking around in the heat, asking about vacancies. Somewhere in that search I thought: what if landlords, caretakers, and agents could list their places online, so students could shortlist what fits their budget before ever stepping outside?
I couldn't afford to pay an engineer to build it, so I decided to learn. I started with Python and wandered through data science, automation, and backend work, then realised the product needed JavaScript. That's how I found frontend, and I've stayed. The housing app never shipped (others already existed), but the habit stuck: see a problem, build the fix.
Since then I've worked mostly in early-stage startups. Some grew, several didn't, and every one taught me something I still use. I've been the first engineer, the one making design calls when there was no designer, and on my first startup team, the most experienced person in a very small room. That mostly meant learning fast and pushing everyone, myself included, to get better.
Frontend and mobile are where I'm strongest. I sweat the things users feel: performance, interfaces that are simple to use, clean structure, and security. I've also built full-stack products on my own, usually with Supabase and Cloudflare, designing the schemas, row-level security, and auth myself. On Voisight I started as the frontend engineer, shipping the mobile app to both stores and building the web app, then took over the backend as well. Now I own it end to end, because I want to be a software engineer in the full sense.
I'm a perfectionist who ships. I'd rather release something good and keep improving it than polish something nobody gets to use.
Outside code, I sing and make music. I think it's part of why I care about how things feel, not just whether they work.
B.Ed & B.Sc, Economics and Statistics, University of Benin
