Systems thinker. Backend Engineer. Former student of how power scales.
I studied History, International Studies, and Public Administration at the University of Calabar because I had a deep curiosity for the patterns inside complex systems, how they form, how they hold, and how they break. That curiosity is what eventually led me into engineering.
I have been building software since 2021 and today I specialize in distributed systems and backend infrastructure, working primarily in Rust and TypeScript. Along the way I went deep into the mathematical foundation of systems reasoning, spending time with discrete mathematics, logic, statistics and probability.
Governance as a Mental Model
Distributed systems and political systems share a core problem: how do you maintain reliability across many independent agents, each of which can fail?
My background in political and economic history with public administration is not a detour from engineering but a lens through which I approach it. Consensus algorithms, state management and fault tolerance map cleanly onto questions that political and economic theorists have wrestled with for centuries, and I find that overlap genuinely useful in the work.
What I’m Building
The long project is a digital nation-state — a fully realized country on the internet where the mechanics of the real world are replicated in software. States, governments, central banks, currencies, labor markets, occupations. Everything. The economy runs on cryptocurrency. The governance models are stress-tested in real time by real participants.
It is the project that justifies everything else I study: distributed systems, tokenomics, economic history, game theory, fault tolerance. Parts of it will be open source.
It does not have a name yet.
Citrus Runner is the first step into that world. An endless runner with a live token, $FLUX, built initially for a hackathon on the OrangeWeb3 Avalanche subnet. It is where I am learning how player economies actually behave before I try to build a central bank.
Crib Connect is a separate conviction. A rental marketplace for Nigeria built around an identity verification layer using NIN. It is the infrastructure problem I saw living here, and I am building the solution.
Outside of systems, digital and political: books, chess, and the slow, deliberate work of building things that should not exist yet.