Ayobami
Alex Alli
Software Engineer & Educational-Management Researcher
I believe the clearest way to know if a person — or a system — is actually getting better is data.
Not vibes. Not good intentions. Accumulated, honest information about what's actually happening, tracked over time. That belief sits underneath almost everything I build, whether it's software, a learning system, or my own life.
I got into backend engineering because I'm drawn to the parts of a system most people never see: the structure underneath, the part that has to hold up quietly while everything else changes. But the deeper pull isn't the code itself. It's what the code makes possible: turning scattered information into something a person can actually use to understand where they stand, and where to go next.
That's the thread running through everything I'm working on: using data and software not as ends in themselves, but as tools for human development. For education systems that currently guess instead of knowing. For people trying to figure out whether the way they're spending their time is actually moving them toward what they say they want. For me, working through the same question in my own life.
I don't think that's a small idea. I think it's worth building a career, and a body of work, around.
My name is Ayobami Alex Alli, but please call me AY. I'm a software engineer and educational-management researcher who's drawn to building structure and systems that help people understand themselves and their world better.
My tech journey started with a sense of wonder. Picture a school-age child in the early 2000s, between 2002 and 2005, navigating bulky monitors and the floppy disks of Windows XP. There was no roadmap, no mentor, just an endless fascination with what computers could do. This curiosity grew as I explored deeper, convinced that technology held answers to countless problems, even if I didn't yet know how to find them.
Although my formal studies were in business education, educational management, and political science, I always found myself drawn back to tech. In 2017, I took a chance and applied for an IT school scholarship. After scoring at the top of the exam, I decided to dive into programming. With some advice and thought, I chose to pursue PHP and MySQL, and that decision firmly set my path in software development.
The adventure of creating something from scratch and solving complex problems was irresistible. As I gained hands-on experience in tech, I also discovered my passion for sharing that knowledge with others: organizing tutorials, teaching computer science basics to classmates, and eventually to local youth in a community program.
Today I work on backend systems, secure APIs, and the kind of architecture that most users never see but every product depends on. KodeFiction is my ongoing effort to make programming more accessible to people starting where I once started — with curiosity and no roadmap.
Education For All
Beyond tech, I'm passionate about transforming education and making it accessible for all. As an advocate for educational reform in Nigeria and Africa, I'm working toward a movement called ECTA, focused on two things: bringing personalized, data-driven education to classrooms so decisions about students are made with real information instead of guesswork, and researching and shaping policy that makes education more practical — rooted in experiential learning and real placement opportunities, not just theory.
If any of this resonates — if you're thinking about data, systems, education, or how to build something that actually helps people move forward — I'd genuinely like to hear from you.
Get In TouchSkills
Languages
- PHP
- TypeScript
- SQL
Backend
- Laravel
- Secure API design
- GraphQL
- REST architecture
Data
- MySQL
- Data modelling
Tools
- Git
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