Hi, I'm Uche.

I build things, and I think about what to build.

My work spans frontend engineering, technical product management, and pre-sales - and I move fluidly between all three depending on what a team needs. I've scaled platforms to 87,000 users, managed products processing $23M+ in transactions, and written the specs and the code.

Right now, I'm co-founding NeuroCare AI (building behavioural intelligence for care services), consulting for founders and small businesses, and looking for my next full-time opportunity - in engineering, a hybrid role, or pre-sales/solutions engineering.

I started my career as a Presales Engineer at Cobranet in Lagos, spending seven years helping enterprises with internet infrastructure. That taught me how to translate technical complexity into business value - a skill I use every day.

In 2018, I joined Andela as a Software Engineer. I built React applications for clients including Coursera, where I led accessibility improvements (50/50 VPAT compliance) that increased user return rates by 10%. I also worked on UMed, building clinical research tools that needed to be both compliant and usable.

Writing code gave me empathy for engineers, and it's never left me. I stayed technical as I moved into product roles - I can read codebases, write specs engineers find useful, and have real conversations about trade-offs.

At Bantu Blockchain, I owned BantuPay - a digital wallet that grew to 87,000 users across 147 countries. My proudest moment was designing the username-based transfer system. When I discovered that 15% of transactions were failing due to address input errors, I built a solution that dropped errors to 2%. Simple, but it mattered.

I also launched Timbuktu, a KYC-light decentralised exchange with 7,400 users, learning how to balance rapid growth with regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

At Winnov8, I led SwissPay - a mobile tap-to-pay payment app for African markets. I managed SoftPOS integration, vendor relationships, and coordinated go-to-market across engineering, compliance, and design. I also built the UAT system from scratch using Google Forms and Apps Script - because testing at scale shouldn't require expensive tools.

At Truss, I worked on a fashion AI data labelling platform serving clients including Burberry and Nike. Beyond hands-on annotation and QA across 50,000+ garment and sneaker listings, I managed a team of offshore annotators — building training resources, running onboarding sessions for new annotation categories, QA-ing their output, and giving structured feedback to improve consistency. My QA approach was flagged by the team lead as the benchmark for others to follow. It gave me close-up insight into how real ML training data is built, where quality breaks down at scale, and what good human-in-the-loop processes actually look like in practice.

Now I'm building NeuroCare AI with my co-founders. We're creating behavioural intelligence tools for care homes supporting people with learning disabilities and autism. I'm using Claude Code and spec-driven development via Kiro to ship the MVP. It's early, but it matters.

Alongside that, I built Tracklo - a personal AI job search tool using Lovable, Supabase, and the Claude API. It generates tailored cover letters per CV track, runs interview prep with AI model answers and self-scoring, and tracks all my applications in one place. I built it to solve my own problem, and it's been my most hands-on build in a while.

When I'm not building things, I'm probably sewing, crafting, or upcycling something - I came from fashion design before tech, and making things with my hands never gets old. You'll also find me on long walks exploring Reading and the surrounding areas, or out hiking when the weather cooperates.

I volunteer with Women Techmakers, attend tech events around London and Reading, and travel when I can - usually with a curiosity about how people in different places use technology differently.

I watch a lot of films, and I'm always learning something new. Currently: AI/ML applications in healthcare.

I moved to the UK a few years ago and I'm still very much in discovery mode - both professionally and personally.