Experience

What I've built, and the teams I've led.

Software engineering leads the way; leadership underpins it. Both are why I take end-to-end ownership of what I ship.

Software Engineering

  1. Founder & Full-Stack Engineer

    2024 — Present

    Flayona

    Designed and built a Ghana-focused e-commerce and FinTech platform end to end in vanilla PHP and MySQL — Paystack and Mobile Money payments, a Buy-Now-Pay-Later engine with credit scoring, KYC onboarding and four separate role portals.

    • Built four distinct authenticated portals — customer, admin/staff, credit officer and distributor — each with its own login, 2FA and password-reset flow.
    • Engineered a BNPL engine with credit scoring, digital contracts and a cron job that automatically charges instalments.
    • Integrated Paystack (card) and Mobile Money, with signature-verified webhooks reconciling orders.
    • Hardened the platform with CSRF protection, TOTP two-factor auth, KYC verification and full audit logging.
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  2. Full-Stack Engineer — OpFix (Dissertation Project)

    2024 — 2025

    Cloud-Based Maintenance Management System

    Built OpFix, a cloud-based Maintenance Management System, as my BSc final-year project — a FastAPI + PostgreSQL backend and a React SPA, with role-based access, a multi-stage job workflow and full auditability.

    • Modelled a multi-party workflow (store → admin → contractor → engineer → accounts) as an explicit job state machine.
    • Enforced role-based access (Admin, Engineer, Client and more) with JWT auth, bcrypt hashing and TOTP 2FA.
    • Added audit logging, file attachments, SLA tracking, KPI dashboards and Excel/PDF exports.
    • Backed by SQLAlchemy + Alembic migrations, a pytest suite, and deployed on Render with Supabase Postgres.
    FastAPIPostgreSQLReactSQLAlchemyRender
  3. Freelance Web Developer

    2024 — 2025

    Julli Jets (Client)

    Delivered and maintain a commercial private-charter website (jullijets.co.uk) on WordPress/Elementor, driven by a custom PHP page-generation system I wrote.

    • Built a two-layer PHP page builder that programmatically generates Elementor layouts from reusable section helpers.
    • Developed mu-plugin shortcodes, a global design system and a charter-request booking flow.
    • Collaborated directly with the client and deployed to IONOS hosting via SSH.
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Leadership

The experience that shaped how I take ownership and communicate.

  1. Restaurant Supervisor / Team Lead

    2019 — 2023

    Hospitality

    Led front-of-house teams in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment — the experience that sharpened the ownership, communication and problem-solving I now bring to engineering.

    • Coordinated and motivated teams during peak service, keeping standards high under pressure.
    • Owned rotas, training and issue resolution — end-to-end responsibility for outcomes.
    • Turned recurring operational pain points into repeatable processes.
    • Built the customer-first, calm-under-pressure mindset that shapes how I ship software.