Nomba × DevCareer Hackathon 2026
July 2026Developer-first virtual account infrastructure layer for downstream product teams.
Software Engineer
Khai
ML pipelines, AI agents, open source, distributed systems, 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
- Agentic Design
Asset Design
Game Environment Art
Game Character Art
Game Effects & Animations
Contributions
MonoCode
usemono.devA GUI for your coding agents.
Rune Icons
runeicons.comModern icon system for products
T3Code
t3.codesThe open-source control plane for coding agents
- Interactive File Breadcrumb NavigationView PR →
Blobatar
blobatar.devDeterministic geometric blobatars from any string.
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.
- Guided a hackathon team of 5 students in building and deploying CampusCoin, a full-stack student finance management platform using React, TypeScript, Flask, and MySQL. Mentored the team across product planning, UI/UX, REST API and database design, Git workflows, automated testing, security, debugging, code documentation and deployment, culminating in a live application with authentication, email verification, budgeting, transaction tracking, financial insights, reports, profile management, administrative controls, and integrations with Vercel, Render, Aiven, Brevo, and Cloudinary, enabling the team to deliver and document a functional full-stack system using entirely free hosting tiers.
- 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 · Flask · Project Management · Brevo
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 blobatar.dev and integrated into Keihatsu (PR #33)
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
Oct 202616 min read
Building the Blobatar SwiftUI SDK, Same Face Across Runtimes
How I ported Blobatar to pure Swift and native SwiftUI Canvas, preserved its generation-2 identity contract, and fixed the state-delivery bugs behind deterministic animation.
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.