FIG_000·PORTFOLIO v1.0·2026
OPEN TO OPPORTUNITIES

Toluwanimi Smith

Backend & systems engineer. 5+ years building backend systems across fintech, e-commerce, and AI. I design the things that handle the traffic, process the data, and stay up at 3 AM so I don't have to.

Currently building Valuna, an AI-powered e-commerce content engine, and Dashlink, a smart link management platform.

Lagos, Nigeria · Available remote

FIG_001·Selected Work
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PRODUCT

Valuna Content Engine

VISIT ↗

Built the NLP pipeline and queue architecture powering AI-generated product descriptions for e-commerce stores. Designed the retry-safe job model, prompt versioning, and multilingual templating layer on top of OpenAI. The system handles 500 generations a day across multiple languages with rate-limited integrations and async processing, so a single misbehaving merchant never starves the rest of the queue.

500 generations / dayPython · Node.js · NLP · Redis · OpenAI
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PRODUCT

Dashlink

VISIT ↗

Co-building a smart link management platform with real-time analytics, custom domains, and deep-link routing. Designed the API layer, PostgreSQL schema, and event tracking pipeline from scratch — built to swallow click bursts from campaigns without dropping events or smearing the dashboards.

Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Vercel
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ENTERPRISE

AFEX SSO Platform

Architected a centralized authentication system serving 6+ internal products and 50K+ users. Implemented OAuth 2.0 and SAML flows, session management with Redis, and role-based access control across the organization. Replaced four bespoke login stacks with one identity surface auditors could actually read.

50K+ users · 6 productsOAuth 2.0 · SAML · Node.js · Redis · NestJS
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ENTERPRISE

Commodity AI

Built data ingestion and forecasting infrastructure for agricultural commodity pricing. Pipelines pull market data from multiple regional sources, normalize it, and feed models that surface price signals to traders before the day opens.

Python · Airflow · PostgreSQL · FastAPI
FIG_002·Experience
  1. 2024 — NOW
    Valuna
    Founding Engineer

    AI content engine for e-commerce. Owning backend, infra, and most of the API surface.

  2. 2023 — 2024
    AFEX
    Senior Backend Engineer

    Built the SSO platform and identity layer serving 50K+ users across 6 internal products.

  3. 2022 — 2023
    Commodity AI
    Backend Engineer

    Data pipelines and forecasting infrastructure for agricultural pricing.

  4. 2020 — 2022
    Fintech & Contract
    Backend Engineer

    Payments, ledgers, and integration work across several fintech products.

FIG_003·Writing
  1. 001Designing a queue that survives a noisy neighbor2026 · 7 min
  2. 002What I actually learned shipping SSO at AFEX2025 · 11 min
  3. 003Notes on building reliable LLM pipelines2025 · 9 min

DRAFTS · MORE SOON

FIG_004·Now

UPDATED · 09 JUN 2026

A snapshot, not a résumé.

Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now movement.

  • BUILDINGAn evaluation harness for retrieval pipelines — chasing recall@k without hallucinated citations.
  • LEARNINGCUDA kernels & the internals of vLLM. Slow, humbling, worth it.
  • READING'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' (again) and Simon Willison's weeknotes.
  • LISTENINGLatent Space pod, Sade on loop, a lot of ambient.
  • LOCATIONLagos, Nigeria — open to remote collaborations across time zones.
FIG_005·Open Source

SEE MORE → GITHUB.COM/BHNYBROHN

FIG_006·Contact

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