I am a System Integrator and long time member of the Ignite Real-Time Community that develops and maintains open source real-time communications projects which include Openfire, Smack, Spark and Pàdé.

I wrote my first commercial application (a timetable generator for my peers) in Fortran on an IBM mainframe computer in 1978 while studying computer science at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Since then, I have developed software applications across the Oil and Gas, Military, Government, Leisure, Finance and Telecommunications business sectors. I am a full stack software engineer and have implemented and integrated software on servers, desktop clients and embedded devices across various hardware and software platforms.

Nowadays, I focus mostly on Unified Real-Time communication solutions that integrate open source XMPP, SIP and HTTP with mission critical business applications that have a web-based front-end and use Openfire as the server backend. As a consequence I maintain and support a number of Github projects in the Ignite Realtime community.

I am now self-employed and completely depend on my work and activity at Ignite Real-Time to earn a living. Sponsoring my work with Pàdé and contributions to other Ignite projects like Openfire will benefit all of us.