About me
I’m Temitope (Temi), a developer from Lagos, Nigeria.
I’ve been technically inclined since I was five. I still love this industry and what I do, and I’ve been lucky to work with a lot of great people along the way.
This is the longer version of the story on the home page.
How I got here
Before 2020
I studied IT in Cyprus, then came home to keep networks running.
I took a degree in Information Technology at Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus, then came back to Lagos. My first jobs were on the infrastructure side. As an intern network engineer at Airtel, I monitored roaming traffic and ran uptime checks with partner networks, and at Ericsson I helped move people off legacy systems and devices.
Eastern Mediterranean University · Airtel Nigeria · Ericsson
2020
I was connecting banks to NetSuite, and making a poster a day.
At AMT Digital I went from associate to lead technical consultant. I integrated other platforms with the NetSuite ERP, led a team of developers, and built a SuiteApp that automated bank reconciliation for clients across Africa. It has handled more than two million transactions.
Alongside that, I made a poster a day, trying to picture feelings. There are 85 of them, and they’re the cards in Holo’d now.
AMT Digital · associate to lead technical consultant
2021
I moved to the front end, building a lending app for civil servants.
At P2Vest I led the build of a lending platform from the ground up, so civil servants could get loans more easily, working closely with the design and product team on how it felt to use. Then I helped build their real estate platform, working on both the back end and the front end, and helped improve its search for users across all 36 Nigerian states.
P2Vest & Digithome · front-end developer
2022
My work reached a million people, and I started leading the front end.
At Lendsqr I worked with the product teams on features used by more than 300 organisations and a million people, mentored three junior developers, and started brown-bag sessions with our engineering manager so the engineers could teach each other. For Assurdly, I led the build of a direct-debit platform for partner banks, with two-factor sign-in, inactivity timeouts and network-level encryption.
At Woodcore I led three developers through a move from JavaScript to TypeScript that took out 40,000 lines of code, and built the landing page for the rebrand. At Wholistic I was the lead front-end developer on a project management dashboard with an AI assistant, Google Workspace and Slack built in, and a template builder for client reports.
Lendsqr · Woodcore · Wholistic
2024
I co-founded a studio, and wrote down how it runs.
At Deesgn+ I was co-founder and general admin. I set up how the company runs: its structure, its procedures, and the playbook for how a project is scoped, run and handed off. I also looked after the web side of the studio’s projects.
Deesgn+ · co-founder & general admin
2026
I’m building a social network, and shipping founders’ first products in four weeks.
Kommunne is a social network I co-founded, and we’re still building it. I’m the lead product developer, working with a backend developer, a designer who owns the design, and my co-founder, Yinka. At Klaw, another studio I co-founded, I lead the builds, taking founders from a five-day scope sprint to a shipped product in four weeks. AI does a lot of the generating; the last ten percent is judgement.
In between, I build apps for the love of it: Bord, The Third Student and Holo’d.
Kommunne · co-founder & CTO · Klaw · co-founder
2026 · Bali
Then I went to Bali, and saw the gap.
AI was everywhere. Almost everyone I met was using it, but not many knew how to use it well. I found myself teaching people how to prompt, and I was surprised to be advising people who sold AI services.
Then I entered an AI hackathon and came out one of the winners. Of all the groups there, I was one of the only people who could really build with AI, and my product looked different from everyone else’s.
The gap wasn’t access to AI. It was knowing how to use it well, and having the taste to turn what it makes into a product that feels finished.
The first half of that gap can be taught, so I wrote a guide to it: The Quiet Edge, for people who use AI at work and suspect they’re getting a fraction of what it can do.
Building products, and making them feel finished, is what I’ve spent my career on, in design and in code. It’s what ties all of this together, and it’s what I do now: I help founders finish the apps they built fast.