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Shola Japheth
Role
Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Lead
Location and local time
Lagos · WAT
Availability
Open to remote & international roles

Shola Japheth builds software from inside the problem.

Senior engineer and technical lead. I ship to 10M+ users at MTN Nigeria, led the delivery of the HampshireGRC platform, and built Ìgbájọ after running volunteer operations for 6,500-person conferences.

See the workRésumé (PDF)

Now

  • MTN Nigeria

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer

  • HampshireGRC

    Technical Lead

  • Ìgbájọ

    Founder

  • Believers Tech Expo

    Founder

Shola Japheth in a grey suit and black fìlà cap
The cap is the logo.

  • 10M+

    downloads of MyMTN NG, an app I ship features into

    MTN Nigeria

  • ~13

    engineers and client integrators coordinated on one delivery

    HampshireGRC

  • 79%

    less deployment time after reworking CI/CD and release flow

    MTN Nigeria

  • 6,500+

    attendees at the conference where I run operations

    Tech Revolution Africa

01/Selected work

Four systems, four kinds of ownership.

  • 01

    HampshireGRC

    Enterprise platform · Technical lead

    From a client's compliance brief to a standalone SaaS product.

    90%SLA adherence

    A unified platform for enterprise governance, risk management, internal audit and compliance tracking. I led it from first requirements to production, and it now sells as its own product.

    Role
    Technical Lead / Forward-deployed engineer
    When
    2023 — present
    Status
    Live SaaS
    Team
    ~10 engineers incl. offshore, + 3 client-side integration engineers
    Delivery topology

    1. Client stakeholders

      governance, risk, audit

    2. Technical lead

      specs · workflows · APIs

    3. Engineering team

      ~10, incl. offshore

    4. Client integration

      3 engineers

    5. Production

      HampshireGRC SaaS

    I sat between the client and the engineering team and translated in both directions.

    • 90%

      SLA adherence

    • +25%

      system reliability

    • 47%

      faster engineer onboarding

    Read the case studyhampshiregrc.com(opens in a new tab)
  • 02

    MTN Nigeria

    Telecom & fintech · Production engineering

    Production engineering for apps millions of Nigerians pay with.

    79%faster deployments

    Features, integrations and reliability work across MyMTN, MoMo PSB and UNEE, plus Wiki AI, an internal RAG system that answers questions about MTN's own applications.

    Role
    Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    When
    Aug 2023 — present
    Status
    In production
    Wiki AI: retrieval-augmented answers

    1. Question

      engineer or user

    2. Retrieve

      Elasticsearch · live app data

    3. Ground

      SOPs & operational docs

    4. Generate

      LLM + retrieved context

    5. Answer

      specific to the application

    Answers combine the model's trained knowledge with near-real-time application data and operating procedures.

    • 79%

      faster deployments

    • −500ms

      latency

    • +36%

      throughput

    Read the case studymtn.ng/mymtnng-app(opens in a new tab)
  • 03

    Ìgbájọ

    Founder · Volunteer operations SaaS

    I ran volunteer teams on WhatsApp and spreadsheets. Then I built the replacement.

    2major conferences running on it

    A volunteer operations platform I designed, built and run. Tech Revolution Africa uses it, and it was deployed for Womenovate's WITESA summit.

    Role
    Founder: product, design, engineering
    When
    2026 — present
    Status
    Live
    Volunteer lifecycle

    1. Register

    2. Approve

    3. Assign team

    4. Tasks & comms

    5. QR check-in

    6. Verified attendance

    7. Recognition

    One system for the whole path from sign-up to thank-you.

    • 2

      major conferences running on it

    • Solo

      designed, built, deployed

    • 0 → 1

      problem to adoption

    Read the case studyigbajo-owo.com(opens in a new tab)
  • 04

    phos

    Open source · Product lead

    Go live on YouTube from any browser tab, with no OBS and no stream server.

    0phos servers in the stream path

    An open-source Chrome extension that streams any tab, window or screen to YouTube Live, or saves a local recording. I led it for Believers Tech Expo.

    Role
    Product lead
    When
    2026
    Status
    Public · Apache-2.0
    Where your stream goes

    1. Tab · window · screen

    2. Capture & encode

      on your machine

    3. YouTube Live

      HLS

      or

      Local recording

      MP4

    Capture and encoding stay on your machine. There is no phos server in between.

    • 0

      phos servers in the stream path

    • 3

      sources: tab, window or screen

    • OSS

      Apache-2.0

    Read the case studyphos.believerstechexpo.com(opens in a new tab)

02/How I work

Four habits, each with a receipt.

  1. 01

    Start where the work happens.

    My best products came from doing the job first.

    • Ìgbájọ came out of running conference volunteers
    • Stirhouse Check-In came from taking Sunday attendance in Excel
    • A QR idea from MTN's fleet app became ScanStock
  2. 02

    Own it end to end.

    Requirements, architecture, deployment and the production incident should all have the same owner.

    • HampshireGRC, from requirements to production support
    • HHGCL's employee system, built solo, including AWS and nginx
  3. 03

    Build it to survive production.

    Shipping is the start. Reliability is the product.

    • +25% reliability and 90% SLA adherence on HampshireGRC
    • −500ms latency and +36% throughput at MTN
  4. 04

    Leave the team stronger.

    The system includes the people who run it.

    • 47% faster onboarding through documentation
    • Mentored Launchpad Africa Group 8 to 1st place at Demo Day

03/Experience

Full résumé

Seven teams since 2022, four as the lead.

  1. 2023 — NowMTN Nigeria · Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    • Production engineering across MyMTN, MoMo PSB and UNEE
    • Deployment time −79%, latency −500ms, throughput +36%
    • Contributor to Wiki AI, an internal RAG knowledge platform
    Case study
  2. 2023 — NowHampshire Heights Global · Technical Lead
    • Led delivery of HampshireGRC, now a standalone SaaS product
    • Coordinated ~10 engineers plus client integration engineers
    • Built the company's employee management system solo, including AWS deployment
    Case study
  3. 2026TossPaper · Senior Frontend Engineer
    • Owned frontend for a live-document procurement platform: RFQ, bidding, purchasing, invoicing
    • Shipped features from requirements to production release
  4. 2025Unee · Lead Engineer
    • Led a community app from scratch and set its technical direction
  5. 2025My Docki · Lead Frontend Engineer
    • Frontend across a healthcare ecosystem: patient app, provider app, hospital and admin systems
    • Designed a provider app serving four isolated user types: doctors, labs, pharmacies, restaurants
  6. 2023Tomation Solutions · Lead Software Engineer
    • Standardised codebase practices: fewer bugs, 25% better code quality
    • Moved the team from manual to automated testing
  7. 2022 — 2023SAMACE Pharmaceuticals · Software Engineer
    • Built the frontend of the company's employee management system

04/Index

Everything else, including the small tools.

Showing 18 projects

05/Off the clock

I also run the rooms where builders meet.

Conference operations, volunteer teams and a faith-rooted tech community. This is where I learn what people need before I build it. Ìgbájọ started here.

Press kit: bios, headshots, stage intro

06/Contact

Bring me the messy part.

An unclear brief, a process held together by spreadsheets, a system that has to survive production. Tell me what you're working on.

Fastest

sholajapheth@gmail.com

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