I started college in Memphis in 1997 having never really used a computer. That year I discovered the internet, and I have been building ever since.
Since then I have applied machine learning to the software development lifecycle at GitHub and supported our CEO in bringing Copilot to market, co-led Google's $15M computer science education portfolio, advised the Obama administration's Presidential Innovation Fellows, and founded Fimio, an AI infrastructure company I ran from 2022 until winding it down in 2026. I hold a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Computer Science Education. I am Nigerian, from Lagos.
I think about how people learn to build things, who gets to build them, and what we are actually making when we make software.
Right now I am between things — reading, writing, and working out what comes next. This site holds both halves of that: the record of what I have done, and what I am thinking about today.
Start here
If you are new to my writing, these are a good way in.
- What is luxury? And what has that got to do with software? A bag in Madrid, and what it says about the code we are now generating faster than anyone can understand it.
- Winding Down Fimio Four years of building, and choosing clarity over a go-to-market motion that was not me.
- Vibecoding Mini Apps An under-tapped opportunity, and where I think app distribution goes next.
- The Build Peeling back the layers of native LLM application deployments. I wrote this because I wanted to demystify the process.
- #20YearsACoder A retrospective on the first twenty years, written in 2017.
- Babasola Thomas, my Father at 80 My father was that rare breed of humanity born with a capacity to tolerate high risk.
There are forty-odd more, going back to 2012.