I started writing software in 2017. Eight years as an engineer — mostly remote, mostly senior, including a stretch at Andela — taught me where systems break and what it costs to keep them boring. In 2025 I founded Veraclins Tech Solutions to build a few of my own. I'm the founder and CEO, and I'm still the one in the codebase.
Four principles I hold as an engineer, and now as a founder — each one something I've been wrong about at least once. The case in the right column is where I learned it.
Whether you're embedding bpmn-js inside React, or running Mongo and Postgres at the same time during a migration — the parts of the system that matter live at the boundary between two things that don't quite agree. I plan for those first; the rest is plumbing.
The two-database phase of the Mongo → Postgres migration. The schema was the easy half.
40 components is the artefact. The real product is "we agreed how date pickers behave when the locale flips, and we wrote it down." If a maintainer can't answer that without reading source, the system is going to fork itself in 18 months.
Building the in-house design system that Edulinks.ng now runs on. Every shortcut I took in year one I paid for in year two.
I prefer Postgres to whatever is on the front of Hacker News this week. I prefer CVA to a clever class-name DSL. I prefer the framework the team already knows. Novelty has to earn its way in by solving a real problem, not by being new.
Two rewrites, both abandoned at 70%, both because we picked the new tool first and the requirements second.
Every commit to a load-bearing piece of code that doesn't update the docs is a commit that's slowly making the system harder to staff. I write the migration playbook before I run the migration.
A 30-page playbook for the BPMN editor cutover. The playbook saved the cutover when I was on holiday.
Both in my own name, both engineering only. Advisory is judgment; consultancy is hands-on. Team-scale or long delivery is Veraclins.
Judgment, by call — when you need a decision, not a deliverable.
Hands-on, when you need the work built — and want it built by someone senior.
The lineBoth are engineering only — fundraising, sales strategy, hiring outside engineering and legal are a clean no. Equity-only deals or long retainers are case by case. And nothing here pulls me off Veraclins: bigger or team-scale builds go to the company, with its people.
Roles I held long enough to ship something I'd still defend.
Building Edulinks.ng (launching July 2026) plus NairaBiz, JobSearch and Pitch Prophet. Running the company and still lead engineer on the parts that matter.
Abuja · NGThe in-house design system and the BPMN 2.0 editor — the work that became the foundation Edulinks.ng and the company were built on.
RemoteSenior IC across distributed product teams. The zero-downtime Mongo → Postgres healthcare migration (infra cost down 30%+) ran in this era.
RemoteReact, Vue, Laravel. The year I learned to read other people's code under deadline pressure, which I still consider the most valuable skill I have.
Lagos · NGOn the handle"veraclins" is my online name from before the company existed — the same word on GitHub and LinkedIn, predating Veraclins Tech Solutions. So @Veraclins is me, the person.