the engineer // philosophy
A direct line to systems that work on the worst day.
I'm the engineer behind shortkohdz. My work lives where distributed backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI engineering meet reality: concurrent ledgers that cannot drop a cent, network scanners that preserve history, and cloud infrastructure I provision and operate myself, not just sketch on a whiteboard.
Go and TypeScript are my daily tools, with Rust and Python at deep systems depth. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) by the Linux Foundation, with verified credentials in Agentic AI Architectures, OpenAI API & Model Fine-Tuning, and AWS Solutions Architecture (Associate in progress). Grounded in Anatomy from Olabisi Onabanjo University, I approach software from empirical first-principles: fault isolation, system redundancy, and deterministic correctness under load across fintech, proptech, edtech, healthtech, and civic empowerment platforms.
The name shortkohdz is borrowed from telecom USSD strings (like *123#)—the quiet signalling channel that remains operational when data packets fail, cell networks congest, and bloated apps stall. That is the standard: access first, friction last.
the expertise // architectural pillars
High-Concurrency Backend Rails
Goroutines, worker pools, channels, and pessimistic transactional locking (SELECT FOR UPDATE). Systems where double-spending, data drift, or race conditions are mathematically intolerable.
Cloud Infrastructure & Orchestration
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). Provisioning infrastructure as code via Terraform across AWS and GCP. Container hardening, gRPC meshes, and zero-downtime rolling cutovers.
Correctness Under Regulatory Scrutiny
Engineered banking integrations under FCA compliance, PCI DSS, and NDPR. Led integration of bank gateways (GTBank Squad), idempotency TTLs, and Bloom filter deduplication.
Production AI & Agentic Systems
Bridging foundational backend engineering with LLMs: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector embeddings, agentic coding workflows, and natural-language telemetry interfaces.
track record // production milestones
Dwelix Microservice Platform
Led the team and shipped an 88,000-line Go backend across 12 containerized microservices and a 76-table PostgreSQL schema from an empty repo. gRPC communication with GCP PubSub streaming.
PCXPay Banking Rails
Spearheaded the GTBank Squad payment gateway integration under FCA oversight, deploying AWS Lambda microservices for settlement rails across UK, Nigerian, and Canadian accounts.
Mopcare Healthtech Engine
Direct backend development for a digital health coordination platform serving close to 2,000 elderly patients, with Go microservices, PostgreSQL, and AWS infrastructure.
Open-Source Core Fixes
Patched a critical CRLF log-injection vulnerability in Go Fiber (#4552) and resolved a weak PRNG seed concurrency bug in HashiCorp's go-retryablehttp (#301).
Ready to talk architecture?
Available for high-stakes backend advisory, distributed systems engineering, and infrastructure consulting.