About

Background

Software engineer based in Malta. Over six years building backend systems across fintech, SaaS, and applied AI — from early-stage startups in Lagos to a remote senior role at a product serving tens of thousands of customers globally. My path went: code → architecture → infrastructure → AI. Most of the systems I've built are invisible to the people who depend on them, which is exactly how it should be.

What I'm doing now

Senior Fullstack Engineer at ThriveCart, a leading checkout and affiliate platform. Recent work there includes migrating a synchronous webhook system serving 45+ third-party integrations to an async SQS-backed AWS Lambda pipeline with Terraform infrastructure, retry logic, dead letter queues, and Slack alerting — and building an MCP server that exposes ThriveCart's core functionality to LLMs via OAuth 2.0.

Outside of work, I'm building Agent Spire (multi-tenant content automation across YouTube and Medium, with a provider-agnostic LLM abstraction layer) and InvestorSmith (RAG-based investment research grounded in SEC EDGAR filings and real market data). Both are past the demo stage and heading toward real workflows.

How I think about engineering

A few things I've come to believe, from working on systems that actually had to run:

• Reliability is a feature. An unreliable system at 10× the speed is still a broken system. I care about the infrastructure work that's never demoed but determines whether a product holds up.
• Understand before you copy. Most bad decisions come from applying patterns without understanding why they exist. I'd rather slow down and reason through a problem than reach for a familiar solution.
• The gap between AI demos and production is wider than people admit. Latency, cost, failure modes, data quality — these aren't afterthoughts. They're the actual engineering.
• The best code is the code you don't have to explain. Clarity over cleverness, every time.

Outside work

Recently started learning French. Preparing for a Master's in Artificial Intelligence. I write technical pieces on Medium about AI, PHP, Laravel, and software engineering, and personal reflections on work, ambition, human behavior, and the decisions that shape our lives on Substack.