Notes & Writing
Technical case studies, reflections on craft, and engineering notes on building and shipping software.
How This Portfolio Was Built: A Story in Commits
Design & Engineering, no boundaries — and the repo that proves it. From the first commit to Afrofuturism, Supabase, admin, and 90+ commits.
Building Zora on Contract: Shipping a Marketplace That Isn’t “Yours”—and Loving the Work Anyway
Zora African Market didn’t start as my napkin sketch—I was brought in to help turn someone else’s vision into real, working software: mobile shopping experiences, a marketing site, vendor tooling, and the messy operational layer in between. This is what that kind of build feels like from inside the codebase—without pretending the product was mine to own.
Narvo's quieter reliability upgrade: provider health becomes visible
Narvo's recent backend updates make silent provider failures apparent through visible signals, providing the team with a clearer overview of the health of Gemini, Groq, YarnGPT, TTS, and web push before launch.
Shipping Security Guardrails and Cleaner Builds at Narvo
Narvo closed out April 10 with three linked changesets: hardening auth and CORS, cleaning up the backend, and tightening rate-limit bucket isolation after the security rollout.
Bringing the Nego Empire to Life: A Developer's Story
How we built more than just an app—we built a secure, elite ecosystem for the best talent in the world.
The Nego Empire: Building a Premium Managed Marketplace
A deep dive into the architecture of Nego Empire: from Next.js 16 and Supabase Realtime to custom Paystack-backed wallet orchestration.