Teninlanimi Taiwo — RésuméKigali / Lagos
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Teninlanimi Taiwo

Teninlanimi Taiwo

Solutions Architect · Builder & Founder

Engineer and architect building secure, intelligent systems: national-scale infrastructure for the public sector and financial institutions, and consumer products taken from zero to launch. I work where code, product, and strategy meet: translating executive requirements into architecture, leading senior engineering teams through delivery, and shipping the result. Writing production code since age 12.

Experience

Softcom LimitedOct 2025 — Present
Solutions Architect · embedded Product Manager · Lagos / Kigali

Enterprise technology firm delivering mission-critical systems to public-sector and financial institutions. Specific programmes are protected under NDA.

Khove2026 — Present
Founder · Kigali, Rwanda · khove.xyz

AI-native workspace unifying GitHub, Google Calendar and Jira behind a single conversational interface. Live product.

Troco TechnologiesJun 2024 — Present
Founding & Senior Software Engineer · Lagos, Nigeria

Escrow-based fintech bringing trust to peer-to-peer and marketplace transactions. Live on Google Play.

Orems CyberneticsMar 2025 — Present
Lead / Founding Engineer · Lagos, Nigeria

Mobile-first commerce and escrow platform for individuals and businesses.

Qobi2026 — Present
Founder · ALU Claude Builders Club · Kigali, Rwanda

Privacy-first AI co-pilot for university students.

Afrinovators2026 — Present
Technical Lead · ALU student think tank · Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria

Student-built agritech think tank turning fertile ground in Ikot Ekpene into work.

Bloom2025 — Present
Founding Engineer & Mobile Developer · Lagos, Nigeria
Axel2020 — 2023
Sole Builder · personal project · age 13 → 16

Social platform shipped free on Google Play: feed, stories, reels, direct messaging with voice notes, and audio and video calling.

Selected Products

KhoveAI · dev tooling · live

One conversational interface over GitHub, Calendar and Jira: reads across all three, answers with what matters, and offers to act.

khove.xyz · 3 integrations · multi-tenant
Trocofintech · escrow · live

Escrow that feels like ordinary checkout: funds held until delivery, three-party broker flows, disputes resolved inside the order.

1,000+ users in 3 months · Google Play · Flutter
QobiAI · education · shipped

Obligation engine for university life: read-only Gmail and Canvas scopes, consequence-ranked daily brief, cascade reasoning.

4 days zero-to-shipped · Claude API · Next.js / Flutter
Oremscommerce · escrow

Mobile-first commerce platform securing payments between individuals and businesses, with end-to-end dispute protection.

0→1 launch · Flutter · lead engineer
Star Taskzvoice · productivity

Conversational task manager driven by speech capture, with an assistant that plans the day and syncs both ways into four tools.

Voice-first · 4 integrations · latency-constrained
Agrilinkagritech · prototype

Connects smallholder farmers to buyers and to credit: market access plus working capital, so a harvest isn't sold early.

Two-sided marketplace · Afrinovators · Ikot Ekpene
Axelsocial · android · shipped

Full social platform shipped solo on Google Play: feed, stories, reels, messaging with voice notes, audio and video calling.

Solo build · product, design, brand, engineering

Capabilities

Architecture

Solutions architecture · system design · microservices · cloud infrastructure · secure-by-design delivery · technical documentation

Leadership

Engineering team leadership · embedded product management · executive stakeholder translation · code review culture

Mobile

Flutter · Dart · React Native · Android · iOS · Riverpod · Bloc · Redux · offline-first patterns

Frontend

Next.js 14 · React 18 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · shadcn/ui · Radix · Chart.js

Backend

Spring Boot · Java · Node.js 20 · Express · Next.js API routes · Prisma · SQLite · JWT / jose · bcrypt · Zod

Infrastructure

Docker (multi-stage) · Compose · GitHub Actions CI/CD · AWS EC2 · software testing · ESLint · Git

AI & document intelligence

Claude API · LLM integration · conversational AI · speech-to-text · Tesseract.js OCR · pdf-parse · risk-scoring engines

Domains

Fintech & escrow · public-sector systems · financial-institution infrastructure · marketplaces · consumer AI

Education

African Leadership UniversityBSc — Software Engineering / AI & Machine Learning · Kigali, Rwanda · grant-funded admission
2026 — 2029
National Institute of Information TechnologyProfessional Diploma — Full-Stack Software Engineering · Lagos · 3.5 / 4.0 GPA
2023 — 2025
ALXProfessional Certificate — Back-End Software Engineering
2025
Thames Valley College InternationalHigh School Diploma — Science · Lagos
2020 — 2023

Recognition

Confidential public-sector and financial-institution work is intentionally described at a level NDAs permit. Architecture walkthroughs available in conversation, within those limits.