Infrastructure consultant and Developer Advocate. My work sits at the intersection of programmable payment settlement, open-source protocol infrastructure, and African fintech.
Current research focus: the failure modes that survive the migration from webhook-based payment rails to synchronous on-chain settlement using the x402 protocol — specifically, idempotency under network failure, cross-border settlement integrity, and the recovery architecture required when a facilitator times out before the chain confirms.
#2 top-published researcher on HackerNoon with a focus on fintech, developer tools, and digital payment infrastructure · 2022 Smart Contract Contributor of the Year runner-up, and ecosystem builder across African developer communities.
Programmatic Payments Series
| Article | What it covers |
|---|---|
| The Idempotency Problem in African Cross-Border Settlement | Idempotency failures in cross-border settlement — why African payment corridors expose edge cases that webhook-based rails cannot recover from |
| From Webhooks to x402: A Practical Migration Guide for Developers | Step-by-step migration from a Lithic webhook integration to synchronous x402 programmable settlement on Base |
| The Architectural Migration: Equipping Autonomous Software with Programmable Money | The infrastructure gap between legacy bank APIs and autonomous agent payment rails — and what the migration costs |
| Stress-Testing x402 Protocol: The Reality of Web3 in Emerging Markets | Synchronous on-chain settlement under real low-connectivity conditions — latency data from Toxiproxy simulations |
W3Node 2026 — Africa's Premier Web3 Hackathon
- Organized Africa's leading Web3 developer hackathon, Cape Town, January 2026
- Tracks covered payments & stablecoins, identity, decentralised AI, and gaming
- Full outcomes documented in the W3Node 2026 Impact Report