Ibrahim Aliyu

Software Engineer

I build web applications and product experiences with React, TypeScript, Next.js and NestJS. I have shipped user-facing features, APIs, integrations and internal tools across ed-tech and SaaS products, and I am the builder of WriteLogs.

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Experience

  1. Lead Software Engineer · Qoollege

    College-preparation platform in Next.js, React and NestJS. Shipped test prep, scholarships, university discovery and student engagement features, plus internal tools and analytics.

  2. Lead Product Engineer · Aequus Play

    Competitive gaming platform with factions and a global ladder. Lead engineering across the full stack, from UI and backend to infrastructure and deployment.

  3. Software Engineer · Centi HQ

    Payments, digital wallets, invoicing and product sourcing for supply-chain workflows. Next.js, NestJS and MongoDB.

  4. Founder & Engineer · WriteLogs

    Developer productivity tool that tracks coding activity, including AI-assisted work, and turns it into daily work logs. Built and shipped end to end, published across the VS Code ecosystem, with analytics on real usage.

  5. Junior Partner & Software Engineer · iT Central

    Custom CMS for Julius Berger, software and automation for the Nigerian Air Force, and web development training for 60+ participants.

  6. Software Engineer · HostSpace Cloud

    Container deployment platform with CI/CD, domain mapping and SSL, environment variables, deployment management and RBAC. React, TypeScript and Docker.

  7. Technical Founder · OneCenter

    AI-powered customer-care platform integrating AI with IVR. Led frontend: dashboards, AI configuration and training workflows, analytics and automated actions.

Selected work

Education

B.Sc. Information Technology

Bayero University, Kano

GPA 4.14 / 5.00

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • NestJS
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Shopify
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • PostHog
  • Sentry

What's on my desk

  • The desk in daylight, a laptop on a stand in front of an ultrawide monitor.Most of it happens here
  • The ultrawide late at night, code and a video call side by side.And a lot of it happens late
  • A small cactus in a green pot next to a framed fingerprint painting.Still alive, somehow
  • An Apple Watch lit up in a dark room.Tells me to stand up
  • A hand-painted tray holding earphones and glasses.I painted the tray
  • An album cover filling the ultrawide under a monitor light bar.There is always something playing
  • MacBook ProApple M5, 16 GB
  • Samsung 34" ultrawide3440 x 1440
  • HomePod
  • AirPods Pro 3
  • Apple Watch
  • Fitbit
  • Power stationfor when the grid gives up
  • A cactusstill alive
  • Fingerprint paintingme and my babe
  • A traypainted it myself