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Benaiah Alumona

Software from zero to one.

I build and ship software products across AI, mobile, fintech and SaaS. /work My work includes ScribeAI, an AI market-research product used to evaluate more than 100 business ideas; Elorah, a Bible companion app taken through mobile development and App Store release; Cue, a location-based social app shipped on iOS and Android; and Introduced.us, a platform for discovering opportunities through a person's wider life context.

I work across the full product surface: product direction, UX, frontend, backend, mobile, AI integrations, payments and deployment. /stack At Waymaker AI I built across Bounta, Custo and Context Keeper, alongside Waymaker Analyst and Waymaker Action; at Paycode I worked on cross-border payment integrations; and at Bizconnect24 I owned the marketplace product end to end, rebuilding its frontend and backend and adding search and realtime communication.

// selected work

Elorah

shipped

Founder and engineer

A Bible companion app, not another Bible reader. I built it end to end: the mobile app, backend, offline-first sync, AI features, subscriptions and the full App Store release process. The product surface combines Bible reading, reading plans, passage breakdowns and a personal library of notes, highlights and reflections. Its distinctive feature is Council, a guided, scripture-grounded conversation system that can bring different voices into the same question. /build

elorah.app launch film

Introduced.us

Product work

A platform for scouting opportunities through the context of a person's life: who they are, where they are coming from, what they care about and where they want to go. The idea is to surface relevant paths that a generic job or opportunity search might miss.

introduced.us

ScribeAI

launched

Founder and engineer, paying customers

An AI workspace for researching and validating business ideas: markets, competitors, audience, positioning and go-to-market. Built and launched on my own, with an MCP server so the research travels into other AI tools. It has been used to evaluate 100+ ideas, and paying customers have found it organically through Google search. /result

usescribeai.com

Screenwright

awaiting review

Creator, Chrome extension

A browser extension that adds a focus layer to any webpage, dimming everything except the part you're actually working with. Submitted to the Chrome Web Store and waiting on review.

screenwright.benlab.space

Tella

building

Founder

A content workspace built around persistent Brand Context: a company's identity, products, audience and voice, set once and reused every time it creates or publishes content.

withtella.com

NexusAI

3rd of 3,000

Google Gemini API Developer Competition

An AI employee that acts as a company's receptionist, support agent and sales rep: 24/7 chat and phone handling, appointment booking, spam call filtering and configurable actions, built on Gemini.

GitHub Google project page

Talli

shut down after hackathon

DevCareer x Nomba Hackathon, 2026

A chat-native treasurer for groups: collections, bill splitting and payouts on Nomba APIs, with transfers and audit trails kept in deterministic code the AI cannot override.

demo video

RenderOG

live

Founder and engineer

A service for generating dynamic Open Graph images from reusable templates, so products can create share cards without maintaining a headless-browser pipeline.

Savi

waitlist

Founder and engineer

A savings-accountability app built around streaks, accountability partners and reminders. It helps people stay consistent without holding their money.

TonePrint

in development

Founder and engineer

A voice-fingerprinting product that learns how a person writes and speaks, so generated content can sound like them instead of a generic AI.

UrMind

Chrome extension, Google Built-in AI Challenge

An AI-powered browser memory that captures and indexes what you read, then uses Gemini Nano and vector similarity search to help you recover ideas, sources and context from your browsing.

Clutch

competition build

Google Cloud × Major League Baseball Gemini competition

An AI baseball companion with personalized highlights, plain-English explanations, player comparisons and interactive learning tools.

ModelKit

used in 3 AI products

AI infrastructure and SDK

A type-safe, runtime-overridable model-configuration SDK for applications that already call AI APIs. It changes model selection and parameters without redeploying, and has been used by three of my AI-related products.

modelkit docs

// experience

Waymaker AI — Founding Engineer

2025 to 2026

Worked across a portfolio of products rather than a single codebase. I built Bounta, a cashback marketplace that matches buyers with unused card offers and manages the purchase, payment and fulfillment flow. I also built Custo, a PostHog session-replay system that detects UX issues and routes product changes into widgets and Linear.

I worked on Waymaker Analyst, an AI analytics platform for anomaly detection and natural-language exploration across product data. I also built Context Keeper, a portability layer for conversation context and long-term memory so AI agents can carry useful context between platforms, and Waymaker Action, infrastructure that turns non-engineer requests into code changes previewed on live iOS simulators. /stack

Waymaker AI eventually shut down, and the products I built there were sunset when the company closed.

Cue — Mobile Software Engineer, Contract

2026

Built features for a location-based social app in React Native across iOS and Android: maps, real-time messaging, stories and reactions, backend integration, testing and release work.

Bizconnect24 — Lead Full-stack Engineer

2024 to 2025 · 1 year

Owned the full product for a marketplace connecting merchants and customers. After joining the team, I rewrote both the frontend and backend twice, added realtime merchant-customer communication, and built an NLP-based search system across products and stores using Algolia. /stack

Earlier: Paycode, Hotels.ng, and two seasons as an HNG finalist.

// things I'm proud of

A practical stack built across the products above. The groups below show where each tool fits instead of flattening everything into one unreadable list.

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Rust

Web and interface

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vite
  • TanStack Router
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Radix UI
  • TipTap
  • SvelteKit

Mobile and desktop

  • React Native
  • Expo
  • NativeWind
  • Uniwind
  • Tauri
  • Swift / SwiftUI
  • SQLite

Backend and data

  • Node.js
  • Hono
  • Express
  • tRPC
  • Prisma
  • Drizzle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • BullMQ
  • Socket.IO
  • Algolia
  • Ably

AI and automation

  • OpenAI
  • Gemini / Gemini Nano
  • Anthropic
  • OpenRouter
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • LangChain
  • ModelKit
  • Trigger.dev

Payments and operations

  • Stripe
  • Flutterwave
  • Nomba
  • Polar
  • AWS S3
  • Cloudflare
  • PostHog
  • Bun
  • Turborepo

// open to

International remote or on-site product and full-stack engineering roles, relocation, visa sponsorship and select contract work. I bring end-to-end product ownership, work comfortably across frontend, backend, mobile and AI, and collaborate well with specialists across larger engineering teams.