Five years leading Android for Nigerian agritech. I ship apps that hold up on cheap handsets, thin networks and real fields.
sessions
Farm Mapper
Kaduna Cluster 14
Mapped this season
60,412 farms
Input Distribution
Season 2024 · Wet
Value distributed
$5,000,000
0% loss · 100K+ farmers reached
Maize seed · 25kg
A. Musa
Fertilizer NPK · 50kg
H. Bello
Maize seed · 25kg
C. Okafor
Herbicide · 4L
F. Adamu
Fertilizer Urea · 50kg
S. Yusuf
Offline Sync
Field Mode · No Signal
72%
synced
847 records queued · will sync on reconnect
Farm boundary #60412
queued
Credit survey · Cluster 9
queued
Harvest estimate #2231
synced
Member registration
synced
01 / Geo infrastructure
60,000 farms, walked and mapped
A GPS boundary-capture flow for field agents across northern Nigeria, built for cheap handsets in places with no usable signal.
02 / Logistics at stake
$5M in seed. Zero loss.
The distribution app that moved five million dollars of agricultural inputs to more than a hundred thousand farmers, with every handoff verified.
03 / Platform foundation
One platform, every app
The offline-first sync layer every app in the company runs on, and the spine of a multi-tenant platform rebuilt from a single-module monolith into forty-nine modules of pure Compose.
Pull request checklist
How the team got there
Guidelines before features
Wrote the mobile development guidelines the team still runs on: project structure, review bar, release checklist, every commit tied to a ticket. ISO 27001 compliance runs as audit tooling inside CI. Crash-free sessions hold at 99.8%.
Grown from twelve, across four seniority levels. Four hires onboarded and all still here two years on, writing production Compose inside two months.
Five years of Android work, most of it at Babban Gona, counted honestly.
60K+
Farms mapped
GPS boundaries, captured with no signal
Stability
99.8%
Crash-free sessions
Held across 12+ releases, zero major incidents
The through line
Every number came from a phone in a field, not a benchmark on a desk.
Boundary lock
Six satellites, one walked perimeter, no bars of signal
Loan recovery
99.9% across the credit-input collection app
Fetch time
2m → 5s
30%
Less drop-off
After reading UXCam sessions
120K+
Farmers served
Plus 3,000+ field agents, across six regions
$5M
Inputs distributed
At 0% loss
The path
Mobile Team Lead
Babban Gona2024 to nowLead a 16-engineer Android team, grown from twelve across four seniority levels. Architected AFaaS, the multi-tenant offline-first platform now carrying 120,000+ farmers and 3,000+ field agents across six regions and three businesses.
Android Engineer
Babban Gona2022 to 2023GPS farm mapping for 60,000+ farms, the app that moved $5M of seed to 100,000+ farmers at zero loss, the sync rebuild that cut latency by 80%, and a version check that dropped outdated app usage by 98%.
Android Native Intern, Finalist
HNG InternshipAug to Oct 2021Finished in the top 2% of 12,000 developers. Built Retrofit-backed auth and a Room store for fast account switching in ZuriChat, a team messaging app.
BSc Mechanical Engineering
University of Lagos2014 to 2018Second class upper, on the Agbami medical and engineering scholarship and the MTNF science and technology scholarship. Came to Android from mechanical engineering, which is where the habit of designing for failure conditions started.
Mobile Team Lead at Babban Gona. Lagos, Nigeria. Open to remote.