Profile

Backend-focused software engineer building high-performance systems and ML-powered platforms, with experience delivering 5× performance improvements, scalable APIs, and real-world AI applications.

Professional Experience
Software Engineer, clive AI⁠
May 2025 – Present | Lagos, Nigeria

Led backend engineering for an AI-powered hiring platform, owning system architecture, APIs, and data models.

  • •Designed and optimized AI retrieval and ranking pipelines, reducing candidate scoring latency by ~40% and improving overall pipeline throughput.
  • •Automated resume screening and candidate shortlisting, cutting recruiter review time by ~2–3×.
    • Fullstack Engineer, Nject
    Sep 2024 – present
  • •Built frontend features with Next.js for a democracy and politics platform, improving user engagement and accessibility.
  • •Contributed to migrating backend infrastructure from Python to Golang, achieving a 5× improvement in performance.
  • •Improved system scalability and response times to support a rapidly growing user base.
    • Software Engineer (Intern), Chamsaccess PLC
    Jan 2023 – Jul 2023
  • •Led frontend development for the BOS web platform, improving user experience and complaint management workflows.
  • •Implemented a modern stack using TypeScript, React, and C# (.NET), improving page load speed by 40% and reducing server response time by 20%.
    • Projects
    Pico, Personal Research Project
  • •Built a deep learning framework from scratch in C, implementing tensor operations, automatic differentiation, and backpropagation without external ML libraries.
  • •Designed low-level execution and memory management to support efficient forward and backward passes.
    • Scholic⁠, Social annotation platform for the web

    Built a full-stack web application that lets users highlight and annotate any webpage, with a social layer for following other readers. Includes a Chrome extension, a Go REST API, React frontend, and Postgres database. Deployed on a self-hosted VPS with a custom CI pipeline.

    naija-bert, Personal Research Project
  • •Developed an encoder-only Transformer for Nigerian-contextual word embeddings, trained on a ~15M token corpus.
  • •Implemented 4 Transformer layers with 6-head self-attention, producing culturally accurate contextual embeddings.
    • Soro, Pidgin English Programming Language
    Jun 2024 – present
  • •Developing an interpreted programming language using Pidgin English keywords to make programming more accessible to Nigerian beginners.
    • Skills
    Programming Languages: Go, TypeScript, C/C++, Rust, PythonDevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GrafanaCloud Services: AWS (primary), GCP, AzureLinux Operating System: Linux, POSIX, shell scriptingBackend & Systems: REST APIs, GRPC, distributed systems, performance optimization
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    Education
    Bachelors in Software Engineering, Babcock University
    Jan 2020 – Jul 2024 | Nigeria

    Relevant Coursework

    Artificial Intelligence, Operating Systems, Linux Systems, Database Management, Human-system Interaction, Data Structures and Algorithms, Programming Languages

    Organizations
    Babcock University Computer Club, member
    Ogun state, Nigeria
  • •Built tech solutions and joined hackathons/​workshops.
    • Google Developer Student Club, software developer | member
    Ogun State, Nigeria
  • •Contributed to projects and stayed current via conferences.
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