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About

17. Self-taught.
Building Ignara.

I'm Michael. I'm 17, based in Lagos, and I taught myself to build software by building real things.

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No degree. No bootcamp. I learned by shipping, with AI tools speeding up how fast I could go from not knowing something to running it in production. I'm not a student doing side projects. I've built a genuinely substantial production system alone.

That system is Ignara, an AI operating system for solopreneurs. Eleven months, solo. I built the entire backend myself: 60+ database tables, 50+ deployed AI functions, and a two-engine architecture, a financial execution system and an AI marketing engine, sharing one live memory of the user. It's grounded in a curated research base of real behavioral psychology, not generic model output. Real payment infrastructure for crypto and card. Real security work. A full frontend rebuild. Pre-revenue and pre-launch, built with no funding and no team.

What I bring is simple: I ship. I don't stop at designing systems. I do the unglamorous backend work most people skip, then build the frontend on top of it. I taught myself an entire modern stack while shipping a real product, not in theory.

I am looking for remote chief of staff, founder's associate, or community roles. Give me the messy problem, the incomplete context, or the work nobody has owned yet. I will ask the right questions, figure it out, and carry it to delivery.

Work with me

Who I am

17, Lagos, Nigeria

Self-taught. No degree, no bootcamp. I learned by building real things, using AI tools to compress how fast I could learn and ship.

Founder

Ignara, 11 months solo

An AI operating system for solopreneurs. Two engines, one live memory of the user, built entirely by me.

Backend

60+ tables, 50+ AI functions

A financial execution system and an AI marketing engine sharing state, grounded in a curated research base of real behavioral psychology.

Shipped

Payments, security, frontend

Crypto and card payments, real security work, and a full frontend rebuild on top of the system underneath.

Operator

Unclear problem to delivery

I work out what matters, learn what is missing, and carry the work through without waiting for a perfect brief.