# Daniel Oduonye

Applied AI & Backend Engineer

Lagos, Nigeria · [contact@oduonye.com](mailto:contact@oduonye.com)

[Website](https://oduonye.com/) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oduonye/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/oduonye1992) · [Toptal](https://www.toptal.com/developers/resume/daniel-oduonye?preview) · [Upwork](https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~010929d8edb4be4700) · [Calendly](https://calendly.com/oduonye16) · [X](https://x.com/danieloduonye)

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## Summary

Applied AI and backend engineer building production AI workflows, agent systems, real-time products, backend services, and cloud systems. Experienced across product engineering, backend, data, infrastructure, mobile, and AI-powered workflows.

## Professional strengths

- Collaborative, respectful, and easy to work with.
- Strong ownership from early idea through delivery and iteration.
- Clear communicator who can explain technical trade-offs in plain language.
- Product-minded and attentive to real user outcomes.
- Pragmatic about building simple, maintainable systems that can be operated well.
- Security-conscious and thoughtful about privacy, trust boundaries, and operational risk.
- Comfortable working independently while staying connected to the team.
- Calm and constructive when requirements change or the path is ambiguous.
- Curious, adaptable, and receptive to feedback.

## Technical focus

- Applied AI, agent workflows, and LLM evaluation
- Backend platforms, APIs, and services
- Real-time products and distributed systems
- AI creative workflows and production automation
- Cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and operations
- Mobile products and dependable user experiences

## Technologies

Go · Python · TypeScript · AWS · Kubernetes · Docker · real-time systems · backend services · APIs · LLM evaluation · AI workflows

## Experience

### Founder & AI Product Engineer — Pineapple Software

- Build AI-powered products, creative pipelines, and real-time product systems.
- Built an AI workflow that turned rough ideas into ready-to-publish video assets in under five minutes.
- Work across applied AI, backend engineering, product decisions, and cloud delivery.
- Explore dependable systems for production AI, agent workflows, and real-time video matchmaking.

### First Technical Hire & Head of Mobile Engineering — Aura Health

- Helped lead a wellness product to more than 3 million downloads.
- Worked across mobile product quality, dependable releases, useful telemetry, and engineering decisions tied to user outcomes.
- Built experience spanning product engineering, mobile delivery, and technical ownership.

### Broader engineering experience

- More than 10 years across product engineering, backend, data, infrastructure, and mobile development.
- Comfortable moving between product requirements, application code, infrastructure, and operational concerns.

## Selected public work

- [Selected work](https://oduonye.com/blog/work/): applied AI workflows, mobile products, backend engineering, and cloud systems.
- [Pineapple Go backend](https://github.com/oduonye1992/pineapple-server): public backend work with services, queues, real-time flows, observability, and Kubernetes delivery.
- [Claude Code Slack](https://github.com/oduonye1992/claude-code-slack): public AI tooling project.
- [Snitch](https://github.com/oduonye1992/snitch): historical public data-pipeline work.
- [Engineering blog](https://oduonye.com/blog/): notes on reliable AI, LLM evaluation, Go backends, and cloud systems.

## Education

- Lagos State University

## Availability

Open to international remote roles from Lagos and relocation opportunities with employer support.

## Contact and verification

- Email: [contact@oduonye.com](mailto:contact@oduonye.com)
- [Calendly](https://calendly.com/oduonye16)
- [Public OpenPGP key](https://oduonye.com/daniel-oduonye-public-key.asc)
- [Machine-readable profile](https://oduonye.com/llms.txt)
- [Agent setup and WebMCP guide](https://oduonye.com/agent-setup/prompt.md)