I design and build the digital infrastructure that governments, UN agencies, and regional bodies depend on — from investment platforms to land registries.
I'm a software engineer who understands how governments and development organisations actually work — the procurement cycles, the political constraints, the users who've never touched a smartphone.
I build systems that survive those realities: investment platforms for ECOWAS regional bodies, land registries for state governments, mobile money reconciliation tools for the UN. Not MVPs. Production infrastructure.
The Governing Principle
"Africa doesn't have a shortage of engineers. It has a shortage of engineers who understand institutions well enough to build for them."
— Festus Oyebami
Before writing a line of code, I map the procurement reality, the political stakeholders, and the actual user. Most govtech fails because engineers skip this step entirely.
Every platform I build is documented, trainable, and maintainable by a local team. I don't build dependency — I build capacity. That's the difference between a project and an institution.
A land registry doesn't exist in isolation. It touches banking, legal, tax, and community structures. I model these relationships before designing the database schema.
Intermittent power. 2G connectivity. Non-technical admin staff. I treat these as design constraints, not edge cases. The result is software that actually runs in the field.
End-to-end design and build of institutional platforms — from requirements through to live deployment and handover.
EngineeringStrategic advisory for governments and development organisations planning technology procurement or transformation programmes.
StrategyEmbedded CTO-level leadership for projects that need senior technical judgment without a full-time hire.
LeadershipBuilding and training local engineering teams that can own and evolve systems after delivery — not just use them.
CapacityI speak at conferences, government workshops, and academic institutions on the intersection of technology and institutional reform in Africa — drawing on real project experience, not theory.
From AI productivity for government officers to provable income paths for graduates — five learning tracks built from practitioner experience, not theory. Cohort, self-paced, and in-person formats available.
You have been giving away your best thinking for years, for free, in fragments. Here is how to collect it back and turn it into something that pays you.
The young man who can use the tool but has nothing to say. The woman who has everything to say and has never opened the tool. Both are stuck, and the advice they need is opposite.
Everyone has been told that AI levels the playing field. I do not think that is true, and believing it is costing people the very thing that would make them valuable.
Whether you're a government ministry, international development organisation, or a founder working at the intersection of tech and policy — I'm always open to a conversation.
Tell me about your project or enquiry.