I build things that actually work.
15 years of shipping production systems. An AI support agent live inside a ticketing app, banking platforms running in 15+ countries, and a logistics backend of 50+ microservices. I don't prototype. I ship.
Open to principal and staff engineering roles at AI-first companies, remote or global.
- Years building
- 15+
- Production systems since 2011
- Countries
- 15+
- Running the banking platform
- Microservices
- 50+
- Architected at Raaho
- Agents
- AI
- Live in production
Latest: Zenith, an AI support agent in production
The help and support chat inside a live-events ticketing app. It can read everything it needs and change nothing on its own.
A user types “I never got my ticket”. Zenith looks up their booking, works out what went wrong, and either fixes it in the chat or hands a pre-filled ticket to a human.
- Refunds and tickets need a tap from the user. The agent cannot carry them out.
- Ownership, personal-data and language rules are enforced in code, not only in the prompt.
- A Replay Lab re-runs past chats against new code before it ships.
- A cost ledger tracks Claude spend per feature, with off switches.
- Model
- Claude Sonnet for live chat, Haiku for offline work
- Agent loop
- Bounded: 5 tool round trips, then a human
- Tools
- Ten fixed tools, almost all read-only
- Actions
- Refunds and tickets need a tap from the user
- Testing
- Replay Lab re-runs past chats on new code
- Cost
- Prompt caching, and a ledger per feature
Selected work
Not demos. Not side projects. Production systems.
Chhotu Bot
A Telegram assistant that handles GitHub PR summaries, CleverTap analytics reports and DigitalOcean cron monitoring through chat commands.
Three commands replaced about 90 minutes of daily dashboard-checking.
NFC Tap & Pay
A complete closed-loop NFC prepaid payment system: hardware integration, backend API, transaction engine and merchant dashboard.
Built alone, every layer.
DBXP
A modular digital banking platform covering accounts, cards, transfers and compliance, built so one configurable codebase can serve many markets.
Live in 15+ countries.
Zoto
Nigeria’s leading payments super-app at Mahindra Comviva: send money, pay bills and reach financial services from a phone.
Millions of users, high-volume transactions, a regulated market.
The evolution
15 years, latest first.
- 2026
Shipped Zenith
AI agents in productionDesigned and built an AI support agent for a live-events ticketing app. Claude with a bounded tool loop, human approval for refunds, a replay lab for testing changes against real chats, and a cost ledger per feature. Live in production.
- 2024
Built AI Agents
AI engineeringBuilt Chhotu Bot and Mira Bot on Telegram — automating GitHub, CleverTap, DigitalOcean. 90 minutes of daily work became 3 commands.
- 2023
Went Deep on Data
Data-driven productCleverTap, Zoho, analytics pipelines. Started making product decisions from real data — not assumptions. Retention curves, funnel drops, cohort analysis — the numbers started telling stories.
- 2023
Built a Payment System. Alone.
Full stack · soloComplete closed-loop NFC Tap & Pay prepaid system. Hardware integration, backend API, transaction engine, merchant dashboard — every layer, solo. When you're the only one who can fix it, you learn everything.
- 2022
AI Unlocked New Languages
AI-assisted developmentUsed AI to learn Go, Python, Java — in production. Didn't study. Shipped. Discovered AI wasn't just a tool — it was a force multiplier for anyone willing to actually use it.
- 2021
Became a Product Engineer
Raaho · presentJoined Raaho as the engineering lead, where I still am. Stopped being handed specs — started writing them. Architected 50+ microservices from scratch, owned product decisions end-to-end, and built the kind of cross-functional culture where engineering and business are the same conversation.
- 2018
Added iOS
Cross-platformWhy stop at one platform? Expanded cross-platform without a team. One engineer, two ecosystems, zero excuses. Doubled the surface area, sharpened the instincts.
- 2016
Fintech Changed Everything
Fintech at scaleBuilt Zoto — Nigeria's #1 payments super-app. Then DBXP — live across 15+ countries. Real money moving through systems I built. Learned what engineering means when it has to work — no exceptions.
- 2011
Started With Android
Mobile engineeringJoined when the ecosystem was raw and fragmented. Wrote apps on devices with barely any RAM. Learned that solid fundamentals beat clever hacks — every single time.
Writing
Real stories from real builds.
Zenith: An AI Support Agent That Can Read Everything and Change Nothing
A case study of Zenith, the AI support agent I designed and built for a live-events ticketing app. One model, a bounded tool loop, human approval for anything irreversible, and the ops tooling that makes an agent safe to change: a replay lab, a cost ledger and a dashboard.
Meet Chhotu — My AI Assistant Who Does Whatever I Tell Him To
Kuch karna hai? Chhotu se karwa lo. I built a personal AI assistant on Telegram that handles my GitHub, CleverTap, and DigitalOcean — so I don't have to. Here's the story of how a lazy engineer built himself a very obedient bot.
I Built a Complete Tap & Pay System Alone. Here's What Nobody Tells You.
Most payment systems are built by teams of 20 or more. I built one alone — hardware, backend, dashboard, the whole thing. This is the honest story of what that actually took, and what I'd tell any solo engineer attempting something like it.
Got a hard problem and AI in the mix?
15 years of shipping gives you a certain radar for what's real and what's hype. I'm a Principal Product Engineer at Raaho today, and I'm open to principal and staff engineering roles at AI-first companies. If you're building something that actually matters, let's talk.