Last updated · February 2026
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.
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.
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.
“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.