Meet Sage.

Hello, I'm Igwe Francis, a full-stack software engineer based in Nigeria. Over the years, shipping both personal and client products has taught me the fundamentals; AI-agentic development helps me move 10x my speed a year ago, sometimes 20x.

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3+

Years shipping production software

5+

Products taken solo from idea to production

10x

Output multiplier from my AI-agent-driven workflow

99.9%

Uptime target on live financial rails

Selected work

01

Vidasend

A cross-border remittance product I built end to end: Next.js frontend, Fastify/Postgres backend. Designed so a payment provider going down mid-transfer, or a settlement failing partway through, can't silently cause customer fund loss.

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02

Chosel

A modular platform I built around Chosy, an AI agent designed to act like an actual member of the team, not a chatbot bolted onto the side. Frontend, backend, and the agent-facing internals were all mine to design.

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03

ALFRD

I inherited a Fastify backend mid-language-migration and rebuilt the parts that mattered: multi-tenant org management and real-time streaming, while keeping the frontend it powered running the whole time.

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How I work

I've been the only engineer in the room more often than not... solo-shipping full-stack products where the decision, the frontend, the backend, and the 3am redeployment were all mine to own. My resume is not built around team headcount; which is the reason I ship fast, read production logs before I read a ticket, and default to the boring, provable solution over the clever one.

I lean heavily on AI-agentic-driven workflows for speed: that's a real part of how I hit 10x output, but the judgment stays mine. I review what Claude write because I'll be the one debugging it when it breaks in production.

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