Writing

Selected posts on building Japahub and Scout, engineering decisions, and what I'm learning.

Participants seated at round tables during a session at the Public Impact Partnership Conference in Lagos

LinkedIn · 21 Oct 2026

Labour mobility only works when a young person can tell a real offer from a fake one

What the Japahub team brought back from the GIZ Public Impact Partnership Conference in Lagos: make existing public infrastructure work harder for young people, and listen to the people a programme serves.

Illustration of young women being marched through the desert by armed traffickers

LinkedIn · 15 Oct 2026

Her name was Onome

A story heard on the radio on the way to work, about a young woman promised a job abroad, and why Japahub exists.

Prosper Bobson and a fellow attendee at the 2nd ECOWAS Startup Awards

LinkedIn · 11 Oct 2026

What we are building at Japahub, after the ECOWAS Startup Awards

After the 2nd ECOWAS Startup Awards: what Japahub is, how its risk ratings work, and how Scout shows evidence instead of saying "scam" or "safe".

Group selfie with fellow participants on day one of the Centre LSD Leadership School

LinkedIn · 3 Oct 2026

Leadership is influence, not position

Day 1 at the Centre LSD Leadership School: influence over titles, leading yourself first, and what a founder at the startup stage has to grow into.

Analytics insight showing Japahub daily users spiking to 472 on 23 July 2026

LinkedIn · 25 Jul 2026

Why I built Japahub Global

Launching Japahub Global: a trust and safety platform for migration that supports, rather than replaces, the work of NAPTIP, IOM, ICMPD and UNODC.

Diagram of an ERP-driven ordering process between a clinic, pharmacy, warehouse, vendors and finance

LinkedIn · 14 Feb 2026

ERP in healthcare: lessons from a real-world hospital case study

From my Miva MIT studies: a hospital SAP R/3 case study shows that ERP is about process integration and data integrity, not just deploying software.

Diagram of a single server sending content out to four laptops

LinkedIn · 29 Dec 2025

When distance is the performance problem

Adding CloudFront in front of an EC2 setup made load times consistent across regions, and why it pays to understand the CDN rather than just switch it on.

Semantic versioning diagram: 1.0.0 split into major, minor and patch versions

LinkedIn · 22 Dec 2025

Versioning is about responsibility, not numbers

Tagging versions and publishing GitHub releases turned progress into clear promises about what is stable, what is supported and when support ends.

Screenshot of the Japahub chat interface with a conversation open

LinkedIn · 20 Dec 2025

Real-time is about correctness, not just speed

Building Japahub chat: message state, read consistency and edge cases that only show up with real users. Real-time is as much about correctness as speed.

Graphic with the words Walking skeleton and a figure made of coloured circles

LinkedIn · 25 Nov 2025

Start with a walking skeleton

Before weeks of architecture debate, deploy the smallest end-to-end slice through every layer and the CI/CD pipeline, to prove the architecture works.

Developers and domain experts around a table during an event storming session

LinkedIn · 6 Oct 2025

Event storming before code

An event storming session for an estate management system: developers and domain experts mapping events, commands and bounded contexts before any code.