Alvin Okoro — Senior Software Engineer

About

I’m a Nigeria-based software engineer and product builder, focused on AI products, developer tooling, and scalable applications.

Senior Software Engineer @ Velio and spending my leisure time @ Nullish Studio, while launching products and developer tools used by engineers and startups.

Work

By day I'm @ Velio shipping amazing softwares. On the side I run Nullish Studio, where I partner with agencies and startups to build web and AI-powered platforms.

I am currently bootstrapping a product that solves a huge problem in the creative space: a canvas for collecting and shaping creative direction, called Faisca. It's still in beta, so feel free to check it out.

For more details you can find the latest version of my resume here.

Core Stack

TypeScript · Dart · Swift · Flutter · React · Next.js · Express.js · Fastify · NestJS · PostgreSQL · MongoDB

Failed Startups

failed

Not every idea worked out, but every one of them taught me something about product, engineering, distribution, and execution.

Intelliask — AI-powered customer support platform built for businesses and startups.
Zerovector — Retrieval infrastructure experiment focused on search without vector embeddings.
Outarc — Headless form backend with AI processing and integrations.
Radarsnap — Service monitoring platform focused on observability.

+8 more failed startups

Side Projects

A collection of products, experiments, and developer tools I’ve built across AI, infrastructure, fintech, databases, and web tooling.

Dataflow Studio — AI-powered collaborative database studio for querying and managing databases together.
EmailDSL — Declarative TypeScript DSL for building responsive, email-safe HTML emails.
Mailnull — High-performance email verification engine built with Go.
Tinyedge — AI-powered GitHub app for reviewing pull requests and surfacing risks and suggestions.
OpenKit — Lightweight wallet adapters for modern web3 applications.

See more on GitHub →

Contact

I love hearing from people, send me an email and I'll get back to you. You can also find me hanging around on Twitter, Github, or LinkedIn.