Teninlanimi Taiwo — RésuméKigali / Lagos
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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.
- Translate complex executive requirements into scalable, secure technical architecture, acting as the bridge between institutional stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Lead cross-functional senior teams designing cloud infrastructure at national scale, including capacity, resilience, and security posture.
- Deliver across access control, revenue digitization, and operational security, domains where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable.
- Operate as embedded product manager on assigned programmes: scope definition, sequencing, and trade-off decisions alongside architecture ownership.
Khove2026 — Present
Founder · Kigali, Rwanda · khove.xyz
AI-native workspace unifying GitHub, Google Calendar and Jira behind a single conversational interface. Live product.
- Designed and built the agent layer that maps plain-English requests onto real, permissioned tool calls across three integrated systems, with every tool call traced and visible in the conversation.
- Built multi-tenant workspace architecture with per-workspace OAuth and encrypted token storage, so teams adopt without sharing credentials.
- Shipped a delivery-forecasting engine that folds GitHub merges into burn-up charts, projects finish dates against initiative targets, computes days late, and narrates the risk.
- Derived cross-system engineering metrics into consolidated dashboards: throughput, cycle time, review latency, deploys, stale in-progress work, sprint burndown.
- Implemented a cost-aware model router and persistent memory carrying context between conversations; own product, pricing and go-to-market alongside engineering.
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.
- Built the product from scratch and owned the technical foundation: escrow state machine, payment integration, real-time order tracking, and dispute resolution.
- Reached 1,000+ Android users within three months of launch.
- Spearheaded the strategic pivot repositioning Troco as a full marketplace, rebuilding discovery, listings, and seller identity on the existing escrow core.
- Directed a team of engineers, set review standards, and shipped core features across the product lifecycle.
Orems CyberneticsMar 2025 — Present
Lead / Founding Engineer · Lagos, Nigeria
Mobile-first commerce and escrow platform for individuals and businesses.
- Led the engineering effort end to end, from architecture through launch.
- Owned technical direction and hands-on development of real-time tracking and automated transaction workflows.
- Implemented the trust and security measures underpinning every transaction, including dispute protection.
Qobi2026 — Present
Founder · ALU Claude Builders Club · Kigali, Rwanda
Privacy-first AI co-pilot for university students.
- Designed and built a system that reads a student's inbox and Canvas read-only and extracts real obligations from unstructured sources.
- Built cross-domain reasoning tracing one missed item through academics, finance, institutional standing, and visa status.
- Shipped web and mobile in parallel in four days during the Claude Builders Club hackathon; continuing development.
Afrinovators2026 — Present
Technical Lead · ALU student think tank · Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria
Student-built agritech think tank turning fertile ground in Ikot Ekpene into work.
- Technical lead, responsible for the think tank producing working software rather than a report.
- Built Agrilink, a prototype connecting smallholder farmers to buyers and to credit.
- Translated field research into a demonstrable two-sided product stakeholders could use and argue from.
Bloom2025 — Present
Founding Engineer & Mobile Developer · Lagos, Nigeria
- Built the core mobile commerce experience across the full development lifecycle.
- Translated product requirements into clean, performant, user-facing features, and ran regular code reviews.
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.
- Sole developer across the entire product: social feed, 24-hour stories, reels, real-time direct messaging with voice notes, and one-to-one audio and video calling.
- Owned product, design, brand, landing page and Play Store release alongside all engineering.
- Started at 13 with a design past my ability, paused three years rather than scope it down, and returned at 16 to ship it as drawn.
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
ArchitectureSolutions architecture · system design · microservices · cloud infrastructure · secure-by-design delivery · technical documentation
LeadershipEngineering team leadership · embedded product management · executive stakeholder translation · code review culture
MobileFlutter · Dart · React Native · Android · iOS · Riverpod · Bloc · Redux · offline-first patterns
FrontendNext.js 14 · React 18 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · shadcn/ui · Radix · Chart.js
BackendSpring Boot · Java · Node.js 20 · Express · Next.js API routes · Prisma · SQLite · JWT / jose · bcrypt · Zod
InfrastructureDocker (multi-stage) · Compose · GitHub Actions CI/CD · AWS EC2 · software testing · ESLint · Git
AI & document intelligenceClaude API · LLM integration · conversational AI · speech-to-text · Tesseract.js OCR · pdf-parse · risk-scoring engines
DomainsFintech & 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 — 2029National Institute of Information TechnologyProfessional Diploma — Full-Stack Software Engineering · Lagos · 3.5 / 4.0 GPA
2023 — 2025ALXProfessional Certificate — Back-End Software Engineering
2025Thames Valley College InternationalHigh School Diploma — Science · Lagos
2020 — 2023Recognition
- 2nd place, nationwide innovation hackathon: led the project team, at 17.
- Grant-funded ALU admission, awarded on a demonstrated record of building.
- Founder, Qobi: built and shipped at the ALU Claude Builders Club.
Confidential public-sector and financial-institution work is intentionally described at a level NDAs permit. Architecture walkthroughs available in conversation, within those limits.