Nomba × DevCareer Hackathon 2026
July 2026Developer-first virtual account infrastructure layer for downstream product teams.
Software Engineer
Khai
ML pipelines, distributed systems, AI agents, developer tools, mobile apps, and 2D platformer games.
- Software Engineer intrigued by agentic harnesses, AI infra, operating systems, game development, animation, and interactive UI.
- 3+ years working on ML pipelines, transformers, distributed systems, AI agents, LLM inference, backend systems, and mobile apps.
- Probably trying new frameworks, or dabbling in C++, Go, and Rust.
About
I'm a software engineer with 3+ years of experience building ML pipelines, transformers, distributed systems, AI agents, LLM inference, developer tools, scalable backend systems, mobile apps, and 2D platformer games using Python, TypeScript, Dart, Java, C++, Rust, and Golang.
Currently exploring ADEs, agent skills, agentic harnesses, ML pipelines, systems engineering, developer tools, AI agents.
Interests include hackathons, open-source, micro-robotics, game development, AI, and operating systems.
Solo Hackathons
DSN × BCT Hackathon 3.0
June 2026Agentic LLM system for behavioral user modeling and personalized recommendation.
Skills
<Languages />
Core languages I rely on to write maintainable, performant, and scalable code.
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- Luau
ArkTs
C#
C++
Go (Golang)
Java
Dart
Rust
Kotlin
Cangjie
Swift
<Frameworks & Libraries />
Frameworks and tools that speed up development and provide structure.
- React
- Next.js
Vue
Svelte
Astro
Express- Nest.js
SpringBoot- FastAPI
Django
.NET
Flutter
Dioxus
Tauri
LangChain
<Databases />
SQL, NoSQL, caching, and ORM tools for robust, high-performance data management.
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
Supabase- Firebase
<DevOps & Cloud />
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud platforms to deploy and scale applications reliably.
- AWS
- GCP
Azure- Supabase
- Firebase
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Git
- GitHub Actions
- Vercel
- Node.js
<AI & Machine Learning />
Techniques and tools to build intelligent, data-driven applications.
Vercel AI SDK
Mastra AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
OpenCV
<Design & Creative skills />
Other creative & design skills.
- UI Design
Game Environment Art
Game Character Art
Game Effects & Animations
Contributions
T3Code
t3.codesThe open-source control plane for coding agents
- Interactive File Breadcrumb NavigationView PR →
Blobatar
blobatar.devDeterministic geometric blobatars from any string.
- Official Blobatar Dart & Flutter SDKView PR →
Tellstone
tellstone.ioHigh-performance in-memory database and drop-in replacement for Redis.
Navii
navii.devDrop-in deterministic mascot avatars.
- Official Flutter SDK (`usenavii`) with SVG parity to @usenavii/coreView PR →
Zero
zero.gitlawb.comThe terminal coding agent that answers to you, your model, your machine, your rules.
- AI/ML API OpenAI-compatible provider presetView PR →
OutRay
outray.devOpen-source ngrok alternative for exposing local development servers via secure tunnels.
- Centralized CLI flag parsing into shared helpersView PR →
Experience
Onsite
Aptech Computer Education
Software Engineer
- Delivered 100+ hours of instructor-led training in Java, Python, Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing and Responsive Web Development helping students build practical software engineering and cloud fundamentals.
- Redesigned the Aptech Port Harcourt website with a modern UI, multi-page course catalog, secure admin dashboard, and enquiry management system.
- Designed and taught hands-on labs covering Azure Virtual Machines, static website hosting, cloud networking, storage, and deployment workflows.
- Developed 10+ project-based programming exercises, coding challenges, and assignments focused on object-oriented programming, algorithms, and problem-solving.
- Mentored 30+ students through debugging sessions, code reviews, and best practices for writing clean, maintainable code.
- Created structured learning materials, presentations, and coding demonstrations to simplify complex software engineering concepts.
- Guided students in building real-world applications and preparing for technical assessments through practical exercises and industry-relevant examples.
- Introduced learners to modern developer workflows using Git, GitHub, IDEs, and cloud deployment tools, encouraging professional software development practices.
Python · Java · Microsoft Azure · Mentoring · cPanel · Typescript · Express · Django
Remote
JhinxPay
App Developer
- Built and optimized screens perfectly replicating static mockups increasing user retention by 30%
- Improved project structure for easy reproductibility improving dev onboarding by 50%
- Implemented end-to-end APIs for giftcards, gamepoints, wallets and transactions
Flutter · Dart
Remote
Area 44
Founder
- Designed and developed Keihatsu, a cross-platform social manwha, webtoon & manga reader app.
- Created the official Flutter SDK for navii.dev and integrated into Keihatsu (PR #5)
System Design · Swift · Typescript · Nest.js · Dart · Flutter
Remote
HNG Tech
Software Engineer Intern
- Architected a distributed notification microservice (Redis Streams pub/sub, idempotent delivery), spearheading a 3-engineer pod, reducing notification latency by 43% (p95 <300ms).
- Contributed to Legal WatchDog, an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform for enterprises that reduces manual compliance efforts by 57%.
- Integrated two A2A-compliant AI agents (a riddle agent and a real-time news update agent) into Telex.im
- Created an AI agent slack bot that helped interns for task deliverables summarization.
- Developed RESTful API projects with Django and FastAPI implementing NLP search.
- Built a document analyzer using OpenRouter's LLM APIs with chunking and embedding similarity search, achieving 92% summarization accuracy
- Drove CI/CD adoption (GitHub Actions + Docker), tripling deployment frequency and eliminating staging environment drift.
Team Leadership & Management · Prompt Engineering · Collaboration · AI Agents · Mastra · Python · Nest.js · Microservices · Distributed Systems · TypeScript · Docker · Minio · Redis
Remote
SnapiLabs
Software Developer Intern
- Built SupaNote's AI workspace landing page with virtualized scrolling and debounced search, achieving 98+ Lighthouse score and 40% lower bounce rate.
- Rebuilt Krea AI's UI from static mockups using component composition, delivering pixel perfect responsive implementation 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
- Implemented a mobile-first design system in Tailwind CSS with atomic CSS architecture, accelerating feature development velocity by 30%.
Next.js · Tailwind CSS · Javascript
Articles
Sep 20269 min read
Building Roadrunner, A Correct Dijkstra Baseline in Rust
How I implemented Roadrunner's first shortest-path router with a binary heap, typed cost models, deterministic route selection, defensive reconstruction, and reproducible benchmarks.
Aug 202624 min read
Building the Official Blobatar Flutter SDK, From Bit-Exact Seeds to Deterministic Motion
How I built blobatar's official Flutter and Dart SDK from a frozen TypeScript contract: exact hashing and geometry, typed expressions, deterministic elapsed-time animation, a lifecycle-safe Canvas renderer, and a release-ready example and parity suite.
Jul 202616 min read
Building the Official Navii Flutter SDK, A Faithful Dart Port of a Deterministic Avatar Engine
How I built usenavii, Navii's official Flutter SDK: a byte-identical Dart port of @usenavii/core, thin Navii/NaviiGroup widgets over flutter_svg, JS-faithful PRNG and number formatting, SVG golden tests, and a pub.dev path that stays out of the npm lockstep.
Jul 202618 min read
Finomaly, Building a Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline with Autoencoders and Graph Neural Networks
How I built a dual-model real-time fraud detection system for mobile money transactions: an Autoencoder for point anomalies, a GraphSAGE GNN for fraud rings, Kafka streaming, Redis-cached embeddings, and a FastAPI dashboard, trained on 6.3M PaySim transactions with 9M account nodes.
Jul 202615 min read
Building Rails, Payment Reconciliation on Nomba Virtual Accounts
How I built a virtual-account reconciliation layer on Nomba's API for the Nomba x DevCareer hackathon 2026; provisioning per-student accounts, ingesting signed webhooks, reconciling five payment edge cases, and shipping a production proof with live money; while debugging everything that broke along the way.
May 202612 min read
Debugging a Silent Sync Failure, How Nothing Was Being Saved
How I tracked down and fixed a critical data synchronization bug in Keihatsu, where offline activities silently failed to persist and users lost everything on logout.
Jan 202614 min read
AI Agents & Workflows
A practical breakdown of LLMs, AI workflows, and AI agents — what each one is, where they differ, and when to reach for which.