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Otobong Peter

I build infrastructure where people, code, and capital work as one system.

I've spent the last decade building software across hardware, blockchain, finance, health, and AI. I enjoy solving difficult technical problems, understanding how systems work, and building the foundations that make software/systems reliable, resilient, and able to scale.

Bio - Career Trajectory - Projects

2014 — Early Days

First line of C++

I wrote my first line of C++ in 2014, and picked up the habit of tinkering with things. I learned game development & worked on different web design projects.

2019 — Hardware Internship
IoT & Embedded Systems

Facial recognition, microcontrollers, IoT devices

I got into hardware development & prgramming, working with microcontrollers, IoT devices, and facial recognition systems. My undergraduate thesis grew out of one of those projects: a facial recognition based door lock.

Working on embedded systems taught me to think beyond writing code. Every layer matters, from the hardware all the way to the user.

2020 — Community & Education
Google Developer Student Club · Rivers State University

Chapter Lead

As my interests grew, I found myself drawn to software engineering, distributed systems and the communities around them. In 2020, I was selected to lead the Google Developer Student Club at Rivers State University, helping students learn software engineering through talks, workshops, and hands-on projects.

2021 - 2023 — Co-founder & Engineering Leadership
African Blockchain Center for Developers (ABCD) · IOG-Incubated

Onboarding developers into blockchain; building real products

I later co-founded ABCD Technologies to help African developers build real blockchain products, and helped grow the Blacks in Technology Nigeria chapter into an award-winning community.

2023–2025 — Senior Software Engineer
LTO Network → EQTY

Ownables, GoLand land registry, and the migration to Base

Professionally, I joined LTO Network, now EQTY, working on blockchain infrastructure for digital identity and real-world assets.

I owned Ownables, exploring how assets like property, shares, and collectibles could live inside wallets with programmable ownership and embedded smart contract logic. I also worked on GoLandRegistry, a blockchain land registry originally built with the United Nations for Afghanistan, expanding it for deployment in Burkina Faso.

When LTO transitioned to EQTY and migrated from its own L1 to Base L2, I led the migration of core assets and supporting infrastructure.

2024–2025 — M.Sc.
Software Engineering

AI-powered requirements traceability

My MSc. research focused on how to design context aware AI systems to improve requirements traceability & completeness in software systems, combining llms, knowledge graphs, semantic search etc to answer a question I keep running into: how do large systems stay understandable as they grow?

2025 — Architect
Fraqtion Finance

Fractional trade finance and cross-border payments on stablecoins

After that, I architected and led development of Fraqtion Finance, using stablecoins to simplify fractional trade financing and cross-border payments — making trade financing more accessible and offering a crowdfunding-based alternative to capitalizing trade, with near-zero interest rates.

Now

Building

I'm always building. The problems of the future are complex, and I want to be part of the teams that solve them.

Thinking About

How sovereign AI infrastructure for regulated African industries becomes its own category — not "AI for Africa" but AI that takes data residency as a first-class constraint.

Interested In

How AI and software can improve healthcare, financial infrastructure, and enterprise systems.

Background

B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. M.Sc. in Software Engineering.

Skills & Tools

Platform Engineering: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD
Product Engineering: System Design, API Architecture, Data Modeling
Languages: Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python
Backend: NestJS, FastAPI, Axum, Fibre, Gin
Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB
Blockchain: EVM, Soldity, Solana (Anchor)
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