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whoami

I build financial software for how West Africa actually works.

Senior software engineer, fintech and mobile, based in Ouagadougou. I build payment systems that stay correct on 2G, where SMS is the only API. Kotlin, Node.js/TypeScript, PostgreSQL.

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6+
years of engineering
1M+
transaction SMS parsed
99%+
parsing accuracy
4
products in production

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Yembi

[ LIVE ]

Mobile money tracking for Burkina Faso, built at DOKAL Technologies. Parses Orange Money and Moov Money SMS into structured, searchable finances, fully offline. I built it from first commit to Play Store.

99%+
parsing accuracy
<50ms
queries on 1M+ rows
7
transaction types parsed
  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Room + SQLCipher
  • Hilt
  • Node.js/TypeScript
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BetPay

[ LIVE ]

My side project, live in production: a multi-tenant SaaS that automates 1xBet deposits and withdrawals over mobile money for local agents, run on a phone farm that holds their SIMs.

1
PWA, branded per agent
n:1
agent SIMs per farm phone
0
mobile money PINs stored on the server
  • Node.js
  • WebSocket (ws)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kotlin / Android
  • PWA
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Dokal Pay

[ CASE STUDY ]

DOKAL Technologies’s first payment product: an Angular/Ionic app shipped to Android via Capacitor, with staging and CloudFront production pipelines.

1
codebase, web + Android
2
deploy targets (staging/prod)
CDN
CloudFront delivery
  • Angular
  • Ionic
  • Capacitor
  • TypeScript
  • AWS CloudFront
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