Amos Godwin
I Build AI Native
Software
As an AI engineer and Senior Software Engineer at Konga, I built the mobile app for over 200,000 shoppers. I’m also the founder of Emelar Republik. Over the past eight years, I’ve been building and shipping software across the stack from Lagos, Nigeria.
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I’m trusted with the app where Konga makes its money, and I run a studio of my own.
- Konga Group
- Senior software engineer, November 2025 to now. Rebuilding the shopping app in Flutter, keeping the native app and warehouse scanners shipping, and building the money side of retail ads.
- Emelar Republik
- Founder and CTO, February 2024 to now. Five products shipped across fintech, femtech and AI. emelarrepublik.com
- Before that
- Senior engineer at Showwcase (USA), then Talkroom, SBSC and High Tech Synergy, since 2018
At Konga
Nigeria’s online marketplace. I work across the whole chain: the app where shoppers pay, the ads that earn on every search, and the scanners that get the parcel to the door.
- $50M+
- in sales through the platform
- 200k+
- shoppers on the mobile app
- 2
- app stores, one codebase
I’m rebuilding the app that carries Konga’s mobile revenue, and its 200,000+ shoppers, in Flutter.
Flutter, Kotlin, Swift
Read the case study: Rebuilding Konga’s shopping app in Flutter without closing the shopA rebuild is no excuse to stop selling. While the Flutter development progressed, I kept the native app shipping: fixed guest checkout to cut friction at the till, richer product filters, a global flash-sale banner, improved analytics tracking, and a faster product listing amongst other squashed bugs.
Kotlin, Java, XML
Every order the app sells has to physically move. This is the app warehouse staff use to scan each waybill from origin, through incoming and outgoing, to last mile. It dates from the Eclipse era (an 11-year-old codebase) and still runs on handheld scanners across Konga’s warehouses. I own it: I keep it stable and recently extended it to new scanner hardware, so logistics never waits on software.
Java, Android support libs
Read the case study: Keeping an 11-year-old Android scanner app running Konga’s warehousesKonga’s retail media network: sponsored placements across search and listings, sold on a CPC model. I built the billing and spend layer, click-to-impression attribution and deduplication, ad slot allocation, and spend control across concurrent campaigns.
NestJS, MySQL, BullMQ, ElasticSearch, Redis
Read the case study: Billing and attribution for Konga’s retail ads platform
I’m rebuilding the app that carries Konga’s mobile revenue, and its 200,000+ shoppers, in Flutter.
Flutter, Kotlin, Swift
Read the case study: Rebuilding Konga’s shopping app in Flutter without closing the shopfinal filler = FloodFill(image);
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Flood fill
Tap a shape in the drawing to fill it.
Emelar Republik
The venture studio I founded and run as CTO. We take fintech and consumer AI products from idea to app store, ours and our clients’.
The Nigerian Constitution in plain words, in five languages. Every answer cites the exact section, with the verbatim text a tap away, so it informs instead of guessing. Designed and built by me, retrieval pipeline to interface.
FastAPI, React, RAG, LLM retrieval
Read the case study: Constitution.ng: a legal AI that cites the section, in five languagesMothers log feeds, naps and nappies and share the day with their partner. I started as the founding engineer and went on to lead a team of four engineers across different stacks: I set the standards, unblocked the team, and took it from first commit to store release.
Flutter, PostgreSQL, TypeScript
Send money across borders, swap currencies and pay online with a virtual card. I ran the front-end migration onto a modern stack without interrupting live payments, and cut API latency with request caching.
Flutter
A parent records a short sample and the app tells bedtime stories in their voice. I built all of it, mobile app to voice pipeline, with OpenAI Whisper inside.
Flutter, TypeScript, Whisper
Studio-grade corporate headshots from a handful of selfies, using fine-tuned open Stable Diffusion models. I led the system design, built the mobile app and ran the model training pipeline.
Stable Diffusion, Replicate, Flutter
The Nigerian Constitution in plain words, in five languages. Every answer cites the exact section, with the verbatim text a tap away, so it informs instead of guessing. Designed and built by me, retrieval pipeline to interface.
FastAPI, React, RAG, LLM retrieval
Read the case study: Constitution.ng: a legal AI that cites the section, in five languages
Eight years of shipping
Earlier roles
- Showwcase, USASenior engineer. The developer social app, Markdown rendering, and a Stable Diffusion image service on Replicate.2021–24
- Talkroom, GhanaReal-time messaging over WebSockets with offline storage; mobile money, crypto and bank payments in one module.2020–22
- SBSCA procurement app for a bank, and an investment portfolio app, both MVVM.2019–21
- High Tech SynergyA secure cash collection app, and work on the company’s SaaS in MSSQL and VB.NET.2018–19
Open source
Teaching
- DevFest Birnin Kebbi, Flutter workshop2022
- Andela Learning Community, Android mentor2020
- She Codes Africa, Flutter curriculum2019
- NACOSS Yabatech Chapter, student skills training2016–22
Tools I reach for
- Dart and Flutter
- TypeScript
- Kotlin, Java, Swift
- Python and FastAPI
- PostgreSQL, Supabase, Firebase
- AWS, GCP, Azure DevOps, Docker
- OpenAI, Claude, Hugging Face
Education
- HND Computer Science, Yaba College of TechnologyLagos
- OND Computer Science, Yaba College of TechnologyLagos
As an AI engineer, I build RAG systems, tool-using agents and the apps that put them into people’s hands. My primary languages are TypeScript and Python, with Flutter and React used on the client side.
A clear example of my work is constitution.ng, a RAG system built over Nigeria’s constitution. Users can ask about their rights in English or Pidgin and receive a plain-English answer with the exact section it references. During its published retrieval test, the correct section was listed first for 54 out of 55 everyday questions.
My agent work is live in MOmsi, a pregnancy and postpartum app available on the App Store and Google Play. MOmsi AI operates on a tool-calling loop I developed, streams replies, handles audio input and performs ownership checks on every call.
My journey began with studying computer science at Yaba College of Technology and teaching Android development at the YabaTech chapter of the Nigeria Association of Computing Students before I was paid to write. Eight years later, I build AI systems end-to-end, from retrieval to serving.
I still ship mobile apps at scale. For instance, at Konga, a platform generating over $50 million in sales with 200,000+ mobile users shopping from their phones, I rebuilt the app in Flutter without disrupting the checkout process.
Emelar Republik is where I develop my own projects, including constitution.ng and an app that learns what your cat is trying to say.
I also create agent skills for my workflows, write SWE-bench-style tasks for evaluating coding agents, contribute to open source and mentor over 100 developers across Africa.
If you need an engineer who can integrate AI into a revenue-critical app, lead a team or take a product from concept to store shelves, please contact me.
Amos GodwinLagos, open to relocation
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- GitHub
- github.com/donkizzy
- linkedin.com/in/godwin-amos
- CV
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