I'm a senior full-stack software engineer with 12+ years of experience building software [professional since 2013, wrote my first line of code in 2010]. By day I'm a Developer Success Engineer at Vercel, helping teams ship faster on the web. By night I build companies. I learn fast, love a hard problem, and think the best engineers are also good teachers.

Entrepreneur Innovator is a better word for me: I love creating. My current ventures:

1. Sekuire - the identity and governance layer for autonomous AI agents ("SSL for AI agents"). Cryptographic identity, local-first policy enforcement, and signed audit trails, all built on OAGS, an open standard. SDKs live in TypeScript, Python, and Rust. Site: https://sekuire.ai
2. Vwaza Multimedia - Africa's entertainment platform spanning Music, Studio, Store, and TV. GitHub: https://github.com/Vwaza

• TypeScript / JavaScript - React, Next.js, Node.js, Fastify, Koa
• Rust - Axum, plus systems and SDK work
• Kotlin / Swift - native mobile, including Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)
• Dart - Flutter
• Java - Spring Boot (who doesn't love "3 billion devices run...")
• PHP - Symfony (every developer from my era writes PHP)
• Go - sprinkled in when I want the control
• Python - if (project_needs_python) I.write(it)
• GraphQL

1. Web servers are home: I'll let you RESTfully, as long as the C8H10N4O2 keeps flowing.
2. Decent mobile dev: I'll back myself on implementation.
3. I suck at UI/UX design, but implementation? Bet.

1. AI agent infrastructure and developer tooling
2. Digital Media
3. FinTech
4. eCommerce
5. Digital Healthcare

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