I like turning a problem into a thing you can use.

My day job is AI/ML engineering at GrandGale Technologies, where I lead machine learning across two production platforms: demand forecasting and routing models, NLP matching pipelines, and the fifty-odd FastAPI endpoints that hold them together. Before that I was a product manager on the same team, and before that a software engineering intern at Mently shipping Python backends around predictive models. Product first, then engineering, turned out to be a useful order.

The projects I build on my own time are where I go to be thorough. A credit-risk system whose first model scored a perfect 1.0 and had to be thrown away, and now scores an honest 0.82 with the tests to keep it that way. A Nigerian tax assistant that does its arithmetic in plain Python and only lets the language model read. A photonic neural network simulated from the physics up. I care about calibration, about what a system refuses to do, and about writing down why.

AquaVolt is the project that taught me hardware makes you honest. It is a solar-powered water purification system for communities where clean water and reliable electricity are missing at the same time. We took it from an idea to Nigeria's government-backed iHatch incubator, from 500-plus applicants to a national top 10, and then to a stand at GITEX Nigeria 2025 in Lagos, one of the few teams there from the northwest.

Sahara Deliveries, which I co-founded, is a last-mile logistics venture at MVP and in pilot across Northern Nigeria. It exists because the infrastructure gaps in the Kano–Kaduna–Sokoto corridor are also the opportunity.

I keep ending up building the thing that lets other people build. As Startup & Innovation Lead for Hult Prize at UDUS, I designed the programme as a nine-stage pipeline rather than a pitch night: design thinking, business development, mentorship, pitch training, screening, a finale and a summit. Forty-five participants became thirteen teams, six finalists, one team at the national stage, and a programme ranked in the top 25% of 2,000-plus universities worldwide. When the power went out mid-pitch at the finale, the winning team finished on printed handouts. That is the kind of place I build in.

I founded Innovate Club UDUS to give technical students a permanent home for that energy, served as Business Development Officer of the Entrepreneurship Club where we ran an E-Lab and a trade fair that put 1,500 students in one marketplace, and I represent NITDA and RAIN Nigeria on campus. I have been nominated as the next Campus Director for Hult Prize UDUS.

The intersection of engineering, machine learning, energy and entrepreneurship, applied wherever the problem is hardest and the people closest to it are usually left out of the conversation. I want to build systems that work where things usually do not, and to leave behind people and communities that keep building after I have moved on to the next problem.