Adekunle Omorotimi

about

An engineer who builds, understands and explores.

I am Adekunle S. Omorotimi, a full-stack and AI engineer based in Nigeria, working remotely with teams in the US and beyond. I have spent six years shipping production software across AI platforms, fintech, healthtech, e-commerce and Web3.

I started on the frontend and still go deep there, but the work has pulled me steadily down the stack: into APIs and data models, into deployment and security, and lately into agents and voice AI. Until November 2026 I led engineering across Sumeru Tech's products (the company was called Age of AI until recently), and I co-founded HODL, a fintech and blockchain product. At Sumeru Tech I set standards, mentored engineers, and wrote the code that has to work when a customer is on the phone.

What I enjoy most is the seam between a model and a product: how an answer becomes an interface, how a tool call becomes a business action, and how you prove the whole thing behaves. That is why this site has a lab: I keep testing, measuring and writing down what I find.

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Adekunle S. Omorotimi, Nigeria · remote-first

Three ways of working

  • The engineer

    Build

    Production software, end to end: React and Next.js frontends, Node and Python backends, Postgres, and the deploy pipeline underneath.

  • The AI systems builder

    Understand

    Agents, tool-calling, voice AI and evals, plus the architecture, security and reliability work that keeps them trustworthy.

  • The technical explorer

    Explore

    Experiments, benchmarks and write-ups. What worked, what broke, and what the numbers actually said.

How I approach problems

  1. 01

    Say what will happen before it happens.

    Snapshots before a cutover, validation before a reload, rollback on failure. I like systems that make their own failure modes boring.

  2. 02

    Put guardrails in code, not in prompts.

    A model can be wrong in new ways every day. The checks that matter run as ordinary code, and the model is measured against them.

  3. 03

    Measure the claim.

    Core Web Vitals, adversarial test sets, endpoint-by-role matrices. If a number is on this site, it has a source and a context.

  4. 04

    Teach what you learn.

    My degree is in science and technology education, and teaching has run alongside engineering the whole way.

awards and press

Wins, awards and mentions.

Awards

In the press

experience

Where I have worked

  1. Software Engineer Lead · Sumeru Tech (formerly Age of AI)

    Marina Del Rey, CA · remote

    Led engineering across the product suite: SchoolExl/TrainExl (adaptive learning), Tellco AI (voice CRM) and AuraAI (AI concierge).

    • Built an AI-concierge → CRM → voice-agent pipeline with tool-calling, multi-step orchestration and webhooks. Verified end to end with a live four-minute AI call.
    • Architected the SchoolExl/TrainExl frontend and its LLM-integration layer; live with about 1,000 learners across India and Jamaica.
    • Automated a zero-downtime production cutover for Tellco AI: 250+ endpoints, a 47-table Postgres schema, 6-tier RBAC, with snapshots, TLS and rollback-on-failure.
    • Ran a security audit across 294 endpoint and role combinations; fixed 2 critical and 5 high-severity issues before client onboarding.
    • Led a ground-up re-architecture of Tellco for scale; set frontend conventions and CI/CD workflow and mentored junior engineers.
    Read the case study

  2. Co-founder · HODL

    Nigeria

    HODL is a fintech and blockchain product that lets users hold, spend, earn, borrow and move money. I co-founded it and led its engineering until June 2025.

    • Co-founded HODL, a fintech and blockchain startup launched in Nigeria.
    Read the case study

  3. Full-Stack Engineer & Frontend Lead · HODL Technologies (formerly Lendbit Finance)

    Remote

    Led frontend across the product suite: the Lendbit cross-chain lending protocol, a Farcaster mini-app and analytics dashboards.

    • Shipped account-abstraction and paymaster smart-account onboarding for gasless UX.
    • Built a Farcaster mini-app on Solana (Privy auth, SPL-token flows, in-app PDF receipts), live in production with real user volume.
    • Built real-time DeFi dashboards over live on-chain data (collateralization, loan positions, protocol health) and the shared component library the team standardised on.
    • Integrated Diamond/upgradeable contracts and meta-transactions; contributed to crypto-to-fiat settlement and an AI borrower–lender matching prototype.
    Read the case study

  4. Senior Frontend Developer (Team Lead) · CoreHealth

    New York, USA · remote

    Led frontend for a healthcare SaaS used by clinicians, auditors and patients.

    • Improved Core Web Vitals by more than 40% through code-splitting, lazy loading and state cleanup, for 2,500 daily active users.
    • Built a reusable component system and PDF, Excel and QR export tooling.
    • Hardened data validation across high-volume clinical records; designed, estimated and shipped features with backend and product teams.
    Read the case study

  5. Blockchain Engineer, Technical Officer & Mentor · Web3Bridge

    Lagos, Nigeria · on-site, part-time

    • Built Solidity smart contracts and React and Angular frontends.
    • Wrote subgraph queries that cut API latency by around 40%.
    • Delivered technical mentorship on decentralised application architecture to cohorts moving into Web3 full-stack roles.
    Read the case study

  6. Mentor & Session Lead (part-time) · Women in DeFi

    Lagos, Nigeria · remote

    • Mentored developers in Web3 frontend development through practical projects and scalability practices.

  7. Full-Stack Developer (contract) · Zummit Africa · Gigsnet · Just Create It Digital

    Remote

    • Built UIs for AI-powered applications, including a real-time drowsiness-detection and monitoring system wired to live Python inference services.
    • Resolved critical e-commerce defects, cutting customer-support tickets by about 90%; led a zero-downtime Shopify 1.0 → 2.0 migration.

  8. Frontend Developer · Punch Group

    San Francisco, CA · remote

    • Built React and Angular UIs for 10+ e-commerce clients and added test coverage across agile sprints.

  9. Full-Stack Developer · Feefit Painting & Design

    Nigeria · hybrid

    • Delivered 15+ responsive UI screens in React, Next.js and Tailwind and integrated backend APIs.

community and recognition

Teaching, mentoring and talks

mentorship and developer education

50+developers mentored across Web3Bridge, Women in DeFi and OAU STESA.

  • Web3Bridge

    Cohorts moving into Web3 full-stack roles, 2024

  • Women in DeFi

    Mentor and session lead, May 2024 – Jan 2025

  • OAU STESA

    Academic coordinator (former), Science & Technology Education Students' Association

talks

  • STESAOAU two-day webinar · 1–2 May 2026

    Bridging Theory and Reality: Applying Science Education to Solve Real-World Problems

    How science-education students can move into global technology careers, with blockchain as the worked example.

  • IFE Science Educator Conference 3.0, Obafemi Awolowo University

    Innovating Science Education: Bridging Technology and Pedagogy for 21st Century Learners

    An address on how AI tutoring, adaptive assessment, virtual laboratories and responsible technology use can reshape science teaching, from the view of a science-education graduate building learning products.

education

B.Sc., Science & Technology Education

Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun, Nigeria · Dec 2021

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