02Life & reflection
The Hidden Unhinged
A candid pause before a birthday: balancing a startup, final-year studies, work, exhaustion, gratitude, and the conviction to keep launching into what comes next.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Notes from a
builder in progress.
I write about building software, shaping products, and becoming the person capable of doing both. Technical notes sit beside honest reflections on ambition, faith, pressure, and growth.
Featured essayLife & becoming
I Didn't Know What I Was Becoming
The story behind the roles and projects: learning to code with an aging laptop, studying from a phone, working around unreliable power, and slowly becoming an engineer, product builder, and community leader.
Oct 6, 2026 · 11 min readRead on Medium
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03Self-knowledge
Self-Awareness
A reflection on self-belief, faith, personality, and the patient work of understanding yourself while life is still asking difficult questions.
Nov 28, 2025 · 3 min read
04Software engineering
API: Meaning, Types, and Implementation
A practical guide to APIs as protocols, specifications, documentation, and working interfaces, including why they matter and how software systems use them.
Sep 14, 2025 · 4 min read
05Software engineering
API Design: Building Your Own Design Thinking
A step-by-step look at defining API requirements, shaping the contract, validating it with prototypes, testing decisions, and documenting the result for consumers.
Sep 13, 2025 · 4 min read
06AI & Africa
The 21st-Century AI Breakouts: My African POV
A view of the AI boom from Africa, asking whether the continent will only consume the next technological shift or build the infrastructure, models, and companies that shape it.
Jul 28, 2025 · 9 min read
07Software engineering
OOP: I Sacrificed My Four Years of Experience
A personal account of learning, unlearning, and relearning object-oriented programming, and why years spent coding do not remove the need to return to first principles.
Jul 26, 2025 · 9 min read
08Career & identity
The Subtle Art of Putting Myself Out There
On rejection, grit, building an honest online presence, and choosing to document technical work and personal growth without becoming title-driven.
Feb 10, 2025 · 3 min read
09Learning engineering
DSA: Data Structures & Algorithms
A student's account of learning data structures and algorithms while projects, new frameworks, and the practical demands of becoming an engineer kept rewriting the plan.
Mar 12, 2024 · 3 min read
10Faith & purpose
Late Night Muse
An early note about unseen effort, trying opportunities despite rejection, growing as an engineer, and trusting that difficult seasons can still carry purpose.
Jan 20, 2024 · 2 min read