AI Systems Builder

Chukwunedum Davidson

AI Systems Builder from Lagos. I ship AI-native systems end-to-end — from agent architecture through deployment, evals, and iteration — using Claude Code daily and the Anthropic API. Built in environments where the network drops, the bank times out, and the user is on 3G. It taught me what production-ready actually means.

Lagos, Nigeria /
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· core skills

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Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Design Systems, Figma-to-code, Component Libraries

Backend

Node.js, Python, FastAPI, Express, REST APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, Route 53), DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm

CI/CD & Automation

GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AWS CodePipeline, Make.com, n8n, Bash/Shell scripting

AI & Agents

Claude Code (daily), Anthropic API (text + vision), OpenAI API (GPT-4o / GPT-4o-mini), agent architecture, prompt evals, Make.com, Zapier

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Sentry, Datadog, CloudWatch, structured logging

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· experience

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Tech Policy Advisory Founding Engineer / DevOps Lead
Jan 2026 – Present current
  • Designed and deployed production infrastructure from scratch serving users across 13 African countries, the US, Europe, and China — 99.9% uptime since launch
  • Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions — reduced deployment time from manual hours to under 10 minutes
  • Integrated Claude API for regulatory policy data extraction; Cloudflare CDN for low-latency delivery across 4 continents
  • Full observability stack (Sentry, Grafana) with proactive incident detection and root cause analysis
DataFlex Nigeria Pre-Sales Technical Specialist
Feb 2023 – Feb 2026
  • Built internal AI and automation tools (PrepCall, an intranet portal, a Bill-of-Materials validator) that replaced manual work for sales and solutioning teams
  • Supported deals across Fortinet, Palo Alto, Huawei AICC, and Cisco Webex stacks; contributed to $190K+ in pipeline. Translated technical systems into language non-technical buyers could act on
Springboard USA Lead Mentor / Software Engineer
May 2022 – Sep 2024
  • Led 9-engineer mentorship cohort — established code review workflows, deployment standards, and incident response documentation; 100% completion rate
  • Managed cloud deployments (AWS, Vercel) and CI/CD pipelines for distributed engineering teams
AppSwift Software Developer — Intern to Lead
Jul 2019 – Jul 2022
  • Progressed from intern to lead; owned end-to-end delivery across concurrent client projects — architecture through production deployment
  • Built web applications and APIs (Node.js, JavaScript, SQL); introduced code review practices and deployment discipline to an early-stage team
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· things i've built

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· writing

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  • builderswhosell.com — Essays on building products and distribution in the AI era. Recent: "What Accumulates?" (moats in the AI era) and "Thou Shalt Not Make a Machine in the Likeness of a Man's Mind" (on the limits of LLM cognition).
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· reading

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· podcasts

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