I'm Otobong Peter, a software engineer and founder building intelligent systems across AI, distributed systems, health, and financial infrastructure.
Signal Trace — Career Trajectory - Projects
First line of C++
I wrote my first line of C++ in 2014, and I've been obsessed with building things ever since.
Facial recognition, microcontrollers, IoT devices
I started close to the hardware, working with microcontrollers, IoT devices, and facial recognition systems. My undergraduate thesis grew out of one of those projects: a facial recognition 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.
Chapter Lead
As my interests grew, I found myself drawn to software engineering, distributed systems and the communities around them. In 2020, I led the Google Developer Student Club at Rivers State University, helping students learn software engineering through talks, workshops, and hands-on projects.
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.
Ownables, GoLand land registry, and the migration to Base
Professionally, I joined LTO Network, now EQTY, where I worked on blockchain infrastructure for digital identity and real-world assets.
I owned the Ownables project, which explored how assets such as property, shares, and collectibles could live inside wallets with programmable ownership and embedded smart contract logic. I extended the wallet, relay protocols, and core libraries to support verifiable credentials and secure asset sharing.
I also worked on GoLandRegistry, a blockchain-based land registry system that was originally developed with the United Nations for Afghanistan. Our team expanded the platform for deployment in Burkina Faso, making land ownership records more transparent and easier to verify.
When LTO transitioned to EQTY and migrated from its own L1 blockchain to Base L2, I led the migration of core assets and supporting infrastructure.Fractional trade finance and cross-border payments on stablecoins
After that, I architected and led the development of Fraqtion Finance, a platform that uses stablecoins to simplify fractional trade financing and cross-border payments. The goal was to make financing and international trade more accessible for businesses operating across borders but more importantly to create an alternative form for capitalizing trade using a crowdfunding mechanism ultimately democratizing access to wealth and helping businesses finance trades with near zero interest rates.
AI-powered requirements traceability
I hold a Master's degree in Software Engineering, where my research focused on using AI to improve requirements traceability in large software systems. It combined machine learning, graph analysis, and software engineering to solve a practical problem I've run into throughout my career: how do large systems stay understandable as they grow?
Current Ventures
Today, my work is centered around AI and systems that solve real-world problems.
Kulawise
An AI-powered health platform that helps people improve their health through communities, behaviour tracking, and personalized recommendations. Behind the product is a larger goal: building the infrastructure that can make preventive healthcare more accessible, and eventually support smarter health financing.
LemonSupport
AI-powered business OS for African mid-market companies. Database-first. AI agents as digital employees operating on structured business data — execution over conversation.
1024bytes
An engineering company focused on helping enterprises deploy AI inside their own infrastructure — systems that let organizations use modern AI without sending sensitive data to third-party providers.
Currently
I'm always building. The problems of the future are complex, and I want to be part of the teams that solve them.
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.
How AI and software can improve healthcare, financial infrastructure, and enterprise systems.
B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. M.Sc. in Software Engineering. First hardware. Then blockchain. Then AI. Same question throughout.
Looking back, the industries have changed, but the work has been surprisingly consistent. Whether it's land registries, digital identity, financial infrastructure, enterprise AI, or healthcare, I'm interested in building systems that help people and organizations coordinate with more trust and less friction.
I like working on the parts of software that most users never see, because that's usually where the biggest problems are solved.
Outside of research and code, I write essays, lead OpenForge, a builder community and explore interests in leadership, theology, and fiction. I’m a Christian.
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