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Technical Team Lead · Senior Software Engineer · Cloud Architect

Blessing Ajala

I lead engineering teams and architect the AI systems underneath them.

Over seven years at INITS, from intern to technical team lead, building CRMs, payment platforms, and AI systems that teams run in production every day. Case-management workspaces, multi-agent OSINT, split-settlement commerce, civic billing, real-time social: Laravel, Next.js, NestJS, and the infrastructure underneath. Based in Lagos.

Illustrated portrait of Blessing Ajala, arms folded
Lagos, Nigeria
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since 2018

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Engineers led

one team

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NG · UK · TR

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Selected work

Systems built,
teams led.

EagleWatch landing page, Digital Investigation & Intelligence Platform

EagleWatch

2024 to Present·Technical Team Lead · Fullstack / AI

An AI-powered OSINT platform for deep background searches, entity monitoring, and structured findings in a CRM-like workspace.

Service-oriented: Laravel for case management, FastAPI for async OSINT workloads. Production runs on a controller-orchestrated multi-agent system with eight domain agents that plan work, call vetted tools, and compile structured JSON the CRM reads.

Customer risk & OSINT investigation

  • Laravel
  • FastAPI
  • Blade
  • Vite
  • MySQL
  • Vector DB
  • WebSockets

8 agents · multi-agent OSINT

GATEWAY Program homepage, Empowering Nigeria's gig workers

CcHub Gateway

2023 to Present·Technical Team Lead · Backend & AI

The core platform behind the GATEWAY Program: onboarding, pathway enrollment, learning access, and an AI support chatbot for young Nigerian gig workers.

Laravel web and API layer with a Moodle integration for provisioning and progress sync. Background jobs drive reminders and nudges. The AI assistant is a separate FastAPI service on a self-hosted LLM, so conversational support never exposes internal business logic.

National gig-economy skills programme

  • Laravel
  • FastAPI
  • Blade
  • Vite
  • MySQL
  • Moodle
  • WebSockets

Mastercard Foundation · CcHub

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INEC Electoral Systems

2021 to 2023·Backend Engineer

Electoral systems for Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission: registration workflows, upload processing, and related services.

Built for scale and for scrutiny. Specific architecture and stack details remain confidential under client agreements.

Civic infrastructure · Nigeria

  • Confidential

Details under NDA

Mount Clinical Research homepage, The Summit of Science

Mount Clinical Research

2025·Software Engineer

A physician-led clinical research organization site covering full-service trials, therapeutic areas, an in-house bioanalytical lab, and AI tools like FlowAutoGate™.

Static React marketing site covering services, careers, resources, and inquiry flows for a Chicago-based CRO.

Clinical research marketing site

  • React

Chicago · marketing site

Veenocks VPP financial dashboard, sales, VAT, wholesale revenue, and settlement analytics

Veenocks VPP

2025·Architect · Fullstack Engineer

A dual-portal platform for Veenocks Limited where partner showrooms run consignment checkout, inventory, and invoicing while HQ manages catalog, stock allocation, settlements, and audit.

On payment, a Paystack-driven engine splits funds by fixed wholesale cost, routes VAT to HQ, and deducts WHT, fees, and stamp duty from partner markup before payout. Next.js frontends for partner and HQ portals on a Laravel API with PostgreSQL.

B2B2C tile manufacturing · Nigeria

  • Next.js
  • Laravel
  • PostgreSQL
  • Paystack

Dual portal · split settlements

Dorq landing page, beta waitlist with campus feed and study streak previews
Dorq mobile app, campus and general feed with student verification badges

Dorq

2025·Architect · Fullstack Engineer

A campus social platform built around one question: does this move the student forward? Feeds, group Hubs, ephemeral Moments, messaging, voice/video calls, and study tools, all behind multi-tier student verification tied to institutional email domains.

Single NestJS API serving Next.js web, React Native mobile, and admin clients. PostgreSQL for data, WebSockets for real-time, WebRTC for calls, and an async S3-backed media pipeline for image and video processing.

Campus social · Nigerian universities

  • NestJS
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • PostgreSQL
  • WebSockets
  • WebRTC
  • S3

Web + mobile · verification-first

Ogun State BPMS portal, payment code validation for government bills and demand notices

Ogun State BPMS

Ongoing·Backend Engineer · Team

The Ogun State Billing & Payments Management System, a centralized repository for authentic bills and demand notices from every MDA, each with a unique Payment Code and QR Code for validation.

Built with Laravel as part of a team. Citizens validate bills online, pay through approved channels, and receive automated receipts, replacing fragmented MDA billing with one trusted state-wide portal.

State billing & payments · Nigeria

  • Laravel

Ogun State Government · team

Workatime landing page, time tracking made simple with smart timers and analytics

Workatime

Present·Fullstack Engineer

A time-tracking platform for teams with smart timers, real-time analytics, and project-level insights so agencies and internal squads can log work, measure productivity, and report to clients.

Next.js frontend on a Laravel API with MySQL. Multi-timer workflows, duration suggestions from historical data, and dashboards that turn raw time entries into actionable reporting.

Time tracking & productivity

  • Next.js
  • Laravel
  • MySQL

INITS · time & analytics

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Practice

Where I addthe most value

Four areas, one throughline: systems that a team can still reason about a year after launch.

  1. 01

    AI & Agentic Systems

    RAG and agentic pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, self-hosted LLM inference and vector search, shipped on production OSINT and investigation platforms.

    • RAG
    • Agentic-RAG
    • Multi-agent
    • Llama 3
    • Vector DB
  2. 02

    Backend & APIs

    Service-oriented REST APIs for high-traffic platforms: voting systems, OSINT tooling, learning portals, designed to hold up under real load rather than benchmark load.

    • Laravel
    • FastAPI
    • NestJS
    • Microservices
  3. 03

    Cloud & DevOps

    Deployments and CI/CD across AWS, GCP and DigitalOcean. Infrastructure built to be maintained by a team, not just launched by one person.

    • AWS
    • GCP
    • DigitalOcean
    • CI/CD
    • Docker
  4. 04

    Team Leadership

    Sprint planning, code review and mentorship for a team of ten. Started “Coffee-Time”, a recurring knowledge-sharing session that outlived the project that prompted it.

    • Agile / Scrum
    • Mentorship
    • Code review
    • Hiring

Record

Intern to team lead,one company.

2018 to now

  1. 2025 to Present

    Technical Team Lead

    INITS Limited · Lagos, Nigeria

    Promoted from senior engineer

  2. 2024 to 2025

    Senior Software Engineer

    INITS Limited · Lagos, Nigeria

    Promoted to senior

  3. 2022 to 2023

    Backend Developer

    Verde Corporations · Turkey, remote

    Contract

  4. 2021 to 2023

    Mid-Level Software Engineer

    INITS Limited · Lagos, Nigeria

  5. Mar to Nov 2021

    Lead Software Developer

    W3 Helpers · United Kingdom, remote

    Contract · led team of 10

  6. 2019 to 2020

    Junior Software Engineer

    INITS Limited · Lagos, Nigeria

    Promoted from intern

  7. Nov 2018 to 2019

    Software Engineering Intern

    INITS Limited · Lagos, Nigeria

    Where it started

Blessing Ajala standing in Miva Open University graduation regalia, mortarboard tucked under one arm

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Education

B.Sc. Software Engineering

Miva Open University·2023 to 2026/27

Graduated from the Miva Innovation Hub, having collaborated on product ideas and community-driven tech initiatives alongside coursework.

Certifications

  • Data Scientist AssociateDataCamp
  • Fine-Tuning with Llama 3DataCamp
  • AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerUdemy
  • AWS Developer AssociateUdemy

Contact

Building somethingthat needs to scale?

Whether it’s an AI system, a backend that has to hold up under load, or a team that needs a lead. I’d like to hear about it.