Projects

Teams I've built with in West Africa, the Caribbean, and open-source Bitcoin.

How I work: I build payment systems on Lightning and Mobile Money rails, with ledgers that reconcile. I use AI tooling for scaffolding and tests — money paths still get human review, replayable runbooks, and ledger diffs.

Shipped

Mobile Money to Lightning exchange

Flash

Send Mobile Money in Benin and watch it arrive as Lightning sats in seconds. I built the exchange path so a slow provider never swallows your payment.

US wires into a bitcoin wallet

getFlash

A freelancer gets a US bank wire and spends it from a bitcoin wallet over Lightning. I built the ACH-in and bank top-up side.

Runbooks for stuck payouts

getFlash

When the bank says one thing and our ledger says another, operators need answers. I wrote the runbooks and reconciliation jobs so a stalled payout is visible and retryable.

Ramper

Ramper

My own project: pay a Lightning invoice and your family gets M-Pesa or MTN MoMo in Kenya, Tanzania, or Benin. It picks the right rail, shows fees upfront, and tells you what to do when money stalls.

Spontaneous keysend test in LDK-Node

LDK — open source

My merged test upstream: two regtest nodes, a keysend with custom TLV record, asserting payment success — covering spontaneous payments in the Python bindings.

Invoice from any Lightning address

Open source

Paste a Lightning address or LNURL, get an invoice — published on npm as invoice-any with a get-invoice CLI. A small tool that removes one annoying step of getting paid over Lightning.

Bitcoin Script, hands-on

Bitdevs Cotonou

The Bitcoin Script material I teach with — contracts, timelocks, multisig, and transactions you can run yourself.

Companies

Flash Currently here

Backend & System Engineer

Bitcoin exchange for West Africa — I work on Mobile Money to Lightning payments that settle in seconds.

getFlash

Backend Engineer

Caribbean bitcoin wallet — I helped build Jamaican cash-out, bank top-up to bitcoin, and ACH payments for freelancers.

Plan ₿ Network

OSC Technical Writer

I wrote 30+ guides on bitcoin tools, privacy, Lightning, miners, and running a node.

Chaincode Labs

Bitcoin Open Source Software Development

I learned bitcoin from the inside — wallets, UTXOs, channels, and multi-hop Lightning payments.

ROOTS TECHNOLOGIES

Full-stack Developer & ERP Integrator

Payroll and reporting with Odoo for companies in Benin and Togo, under local tax rules.