Lumofy
Software Engineer
AI-driven talent management platform for skills-first transformation — analyzing, developing, and tracking employee skills for organizations across 10+ countries.
AI/ML
React
Django
Python
PostgreSQL
Founder & CEO, Oponeko · Lagos, Nigeria
Building AI and technology that improves education and combats misinformation across Africa.
I'm Moses Oderinde — founder of Oponeko, software engineer, and AI researcher. I build products that help schools run better, and I study how artificial intelligence can expand access to trustworthy information.
Mission
“My mission is to build technology that expands access to quality education, advances trustworthy AI, and helps people make better decisions through reliable information.”
What I do
One mission, four fronts
Company, research, writing, and engineering — each one feeds the others.
Featured work
What I'm building
Oponeko is the main act. The rest sharpened the craft.
SmartyPlants
Backend Engineer
AI-powered IoT plant care — real-time sensor monitoring, automated watering, and plant recognition at 92% accuracy, processing 5k+ sensor events daily.
NestJS
PostgreSQL
IoT
Golioth
Kubernetes
- 8+
- Years building software
- 6+
- Engineers led
- 1
- EdTech company founded
Writing
Latest essays
Honest notes on startups, education, and AI — from the inside.
3 min read
Building Startups in Nigeria
The honest version: what's genuinely hard, what's secretly an advantage, and why I'd still choose to build here.
Startups
3 min read
Lessons Selling to Schools
What school proprietors taught me about sales that no SaaS playbook could.
Startups
3 min read
Why African Schools Need Better Software
The most information-dense institutions in our communities run on paper. That's a solvable problem — and solving it changes what's possible for education.
Education
Journey
From first commit to first company
The condensed version — the full story lives on the about page.
2017
Founded BigNaijaGist
Built and ran a social blog for Nigerian news — an early, formative lesson in how information travels online.
2019
Started building software professionally
Full-stack work at Bimbs Tech — 15+ web and mobile apps for small businesses.
2022
Led engineering teams
Frontend Lead at HealthStation — a healthcare platform used across Nigerian government health facilities — while building education products at Darey.io.
2023
Turned toward AI
Machine learning and LLM work across IoT, talent, and education products; first research experiments.
2024
Founded Oponeko
Left the safe path to build the operating system for African schools.
2025
Platform launched
Oponeko's school digitization platform went live with early partner schools.
2026
Scaling across Nigeria
Growing the school network, deepening the product, publishing research and essays.
Working on education, AI, or trustworthy information in Africa?
I'm always glad to talk to schools, researchers, journalists, and builders.