Tim

Systems Engineer & Founder

Lagos, Nigeriagithub.com/Timosdev99

I build systems from first principles — currently working on ONTO, which is a stealth under my studio F***Lab. I care about proving one thing end to end before widening scope, and about showing the real shape of the work. in short i just really love building cool stuff to solve people problems

Experience

  1. Frontend Engineer

    10/2024 - 10/2025
    ECRAMMEOndo, Nigeria

    A platform that provides access to a detailed database of past extreme events, organized along several risk indicators, and a unique repository of coastal hazard information to support end-users for both emergency and long term risk planning actions.

    • Developed an interactive map visualization system using Next.js and Mapbox GL to render geospatial data(GeoTIFF) efficiently.
    • Optimized performance by implementing efficient rendering techniques, reducing load times, and improving map responsiveness.
    • Engineered a custom calculation system to process and transform geospatial data, ensuring accurate representation on the map.
    • Collaborated with backend teams and Reasechers to integrate data pipelines, ensuring seamless and accurate data flow
    • Typescript
    • Nextjs
    • Mapbox GL
    • Geospatial Technology
  2. Fullstack Developer — FMACTCE Payment Voucher System

    In production
    Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism & the Creative EconomyNigeria (remote)

    A Next.js application handling government payment vouchers, used by over 1k government staff internally and hosted on Brimble.

    • Implemented voucher workflows for PV Treasury F1 and Capital Expenditure TF 27, including automated VAT extraction, withholding tax, stamp duty, and consultancy fee calculations.
    • Provisioned production infrastructure, configuring Cloudflare DNS, Resend transactional email, and email routing for the production domain.
    • Designed and built an intuitive interface that streamlined voucher processing for 1k+ government staff.
    • Managed and maintained the production service, ensuring 99.9% uptime for daily operations.
    • Typescript
    • Next.js
    • MongoDB
    • Brimble
    • Custom Auth
  3. Fullstack Engineer

    contract
    Ghost Marketremote

    A high-traffic marketplace platform serving 5k+ users, requiring scalable order processing, real-time messaging, and a modern administrative backend.

    • Designed and maintained a high-performance API, optimized database queries, and managed VPS for deployment and scalability.
    • Built a WebSocket-based chat system for instant messaging and developed an efficient order-processing logic to handle high transaction volumes and used by 2k+ people.
    • Redesigned the platform’s UI for a sleek, intuitive experience and created an interactive admin dashboard for order confirmations, analytics, and user management.
    • Optimized the platform to support thousands of concurrent users while ensuring fast load times and minimal downtime.
    • Typescript
    • Docker
    • Next.js
    • DevOps

Open source contributions

  1. Reth

    Paradigm
    • Contributed to Reth, Paradigm's Rust-based Ethereum execution client.
    • Introduced a newPayloadPhaseMetrics struct and instrumented on_new_payload to record granular timing for each phase of newPayload processing, from pre-warming through post-processing.
    • Instrumented validate_block_with_state to capture durations for pre-warming initialization, block execution, post-execution validation, sparse-tree, and state-root computation, enabling precise execution profiling.
    • Rust
    • Ethereum
    • Blockchain
    • Distributed Systems
  2. Lean client

    ReamsLab
    • Contributed to a lightweight blockchain node client focused on minimal resource usage.
    • Eliminated duplicated RPC server startup between ream-rpc-beacon and ream-rpc-lean by extracting the shared actix-web middleware and socket-binding logic into a generic start_rpc_server function in ream-rpc-common, used by both services.
    • Rust
    • Blockchain
    • Ethereum
    • Lean-Client
  3. Crabtalk

    crabtalk
    • Refactored the agent runtime to hoist immutable conversation identity out of the long-held Mutex<Conversation> into the outer runtime map entry, eliminating routing head-of-line blocking.
    • Enabled lock-free routing lookups via O(n) string comparisons, decoupling identity resolution from the slowest in-flight streaming turn and preventing new requests from stalling.
    • Enforced the RFC 0135 1:1 conversation-per-identity invariant at the runtime architecture level.
    • Rust
    • AI
    • Agent Runtime
    • Agent framework

Other projects

Hermes

Solana on-chain intelligence and trading infrastructure built around wallet intelligence and confluence scoring. Rust workspace with Neo4j Aura storage, Helius webhooks, and a Telegram bot interface.

DeployKitty

Setup and Deploy everything you need for a fast build from your terminal in just one click

Blueroom

Real-time music rooms where users can rate every track, match taste,earn streaks and Listen to music with the people you love with over 50+ active users and 300+ music played accross 40+ rooms

Metis

AI context manager that lets you switch between coding CLIs without losing context.

Skills

  • Rust & systems programming
  • Next.js / JavaScript / Typescript
  • Graph & ontology systems
  • Blockchain infra (EVM, ZK rollups, Solana)
  • Kafka, Docker
  • MongoDB, Postgresql, MySql

Education

B.Sc, Physics Energy

Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) — in progress