MUSA.
here for the work
A cosy room: a wooden desk with a monitor, an open notebook and a lamp, a shelf with a speaker and a football, a pinned note, a door ajar and a window.A cosy room: a wooden desk with a monitor, an open notebook and a lamp, a shelf with a speaker and a football, a pinned note, a door ajar and a window.

a room in my head - Lagos, Nigeria

Musa Umaru.

I spend a lot of time inside my head.

This is a little of what happens in there.

or skip to the work

Look around. Find something interesting.

leave the room

01 / the person

before the work

I spend a lotof time insidemy head.

I'm Musa. I'm usually somewhere between noticing a problem, imagining a different version of it, and trying to make that version real.

Outside the screen: peace, family, music, football, ordinary Lagos evenings - and ideas that tend to stay with me until I try them.

curious, quietlyManchester Unitedsomewhere in Lagosalways making notes
Technology is the medium.
Imagination is the reason.

a few real things

Things that makethe room feel lived in.

Musa's workspace with laptop screens and affirmation posters
where I work froma corner of the workspace
A yellow Lagos bus on a city street
somewhere in Lagosthe city, moving as usual
A saved message about staying focused on building
a note I saveda reminder to keep building

02 / a working method

Most things beginwith a small discomfort.

01

Notice

Something feels unnecessarily difficult.

02

Imagine

What if it worked another way?

03

Research

Stay with the question long enough.

04

Build

Make a version that can be touched.

05

Learn

See what breaks. Build again.

03 / artifacts

things that were once only thoughts

Things I'vemade.

Olubadan of Ibadan project artifact

An artifact from the archive / 01

Olubadan of Ibadan

A living history deserves a place that can keep growing.

The official digital platform for the Olubadan of Ibadan - built from scratch as an enterprise content management platform for palace news, announcements, and historical records.

Built with: Next.js / React / TypeScript / PostgreSQLopen the story
XPay project artifact

An artifact from the archive / 02

XPay

What if paying for everyday things asked less of people?

A production fintech platform for digital payments and business management, built across Parent, Store, Kids, Agent, School, and Admin dashboards.

Built with: React / TypeScript / REST APIs / Tailwind CSSopen the story

An unfinished investigation / Rust

Rewind

So I started building a way to look back - an ongoing experiment in recorded events, interception, and learning through the parts that resist a first answer.

the technical notes
Rewind development artifact

built because
I was curious

more things from the archive

A useful internal tool / 03Leave Management SystemAn AI experiment / 04Agent TownA competition build / 05OrkestraCommerce, closer to home / 06LinkStore

04 / the sketchbook

Unfinishedon purpose.

Thoughts, loose ends, experiments and questions that have not yet become a thing. A small shelf that should keep changing.

09.07.26observation

Friction

I keep thinking about how much friction sits between wanting something and actually getting it.

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A SMALL REMINDERlife

Evenings

Some evenings are for building. Some are for watching United.

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OPEN TABresearch

Rewind

Still figuring out how a program remembers the things it touches.

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05 / the formal version

The workbehind the room.

For people who want the practical details: selected projects, experience and the tools I reach for when an idea needs structure.

2025 - present

Software Engineer (NYSC)

CREASTECH / Lagos, Nigeria

Building production fintech and enterprise software; contributing to XPay and delivering internal systems from architecture through training and deployment.

Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

Software Engineering Intern

Web3Bridge / Remote

Built responsive React applications and worked through feature delivery, testing, debugging, and UI improvements with a cross-functional team.

I currently build mostly with

  • TypeScript / React / Next.js
  • Node.js / NestJS / Python
  • PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Prisma
  • Docker / Ubuntu / Nginx
  • AI integrations / multi-agent systems
GitHub If you need the formal version of me - resume

the door, whenever you need it

If something in this roommade you curious,say hello.