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What I'm up to

Last updated · February 2026

Working On

Washay

Building the operating system for African creators. 400+ creators, live on App Store. Currently architecting the AI Trends pipeline.

Stears

Fullstack engineering at Africa's leading data and intelligence platform.

AI content discovery

RAG pipeline on AWS using Claude Sonnet and Gemini Flash. Indexing and surfacing trends for creators in real time.

Reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Going deep on distributed systems and data architecture.

Introduction to Private Equity

Cyril Demaria

Reading this to understand the finance and capital structures behind the businesses I'm building data products for at Stears. Domain depth makes better products.

The Mom Test

Rob Fitzpatrick

On customer conversations and building the right thing.

Learning

Kubernetes (CKA)

Certification in progress. Getting serious about container orchestration at scale.

Langchain & AI orchestration

Digging into LLM chaining patterns relevant to Washay's AI pipeline.

Wishing

“Ship Washay Trends before end of March.”

“Take a proper holiday — no laptop.”

“Read more fiction without guilt.”

“Write something that scares me to publish.”

“Get the Kubernetes cert done.”

Things I genuinely want. Updated when they change.