Idris Olubisi
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Idris Olubisi

Senior Developer Relations Engineer

Idris Olubisi

I’m a backend engineer who moved into developer relations and now builds AI agents. For seven years I’ve worked alongside the developers and builders using a product, finding the step that actually costs them time and shipping the fix: courses, docs and tutorials, partner integrations or production code.

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Developer relations and education
Courses, docs, tutorials, explainer videos, talks and workshops that take developers and builders from first look to shipping.
AI agent engineering
Production agents and the harness around them: MCP tools, verification, safety limits, human approval and dashboards that show what agents are doing.
Forward deployed engineering
Working inside partner engineering teams from discovery and solution architecture to launch, then turning repeat problems into reference code and tooling.
Backend engineering
Production services and APIs: event-driven payments, multi-tenant systems, data pipelines, security hardening, race-condition fixes and monitoring.

Projects

The agent harness, end to end.

An agent that acts, the tools and verification that keep it correct, and a view over agents while they run.

Agent harness 3

  • [ Act ]Live

    SwoopAgent

    Multi-tenant platform where each user runs a Claude-powered agent that trades real money on web and Telegram, with the backend checking and executing every trade.

    Around 100 users trading real funds

    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • Postgres
    • Redis
    • Docker
    • Claude API
    Private repo
  • [ Verify ]Open source

    Midnight MCP server

    MCP server, built in a weekend, that let AI agents search Midnight code and compile it before answering.

    10,000+ downloads, 11,900+ agent tool calls

    • TypeScript
    • MCP
    • Hono
    • Cloudflare Workers
    • Vectorize
    • OpenAI API
    GitHub: Midnight MCP servernpm: Midnight MCP server
  • [ Observe ]npm

    Agent Lookout

    Local dashboard for the Claude Code and Codex sessions on a machine: shows which need you and what they are asking, and jumps to the right window.

    1,100+ npm downloads in its first week

    • TypeScript
    • React
    • Vite
    • Node.js
    • Electron
    • MCP
    npx agent-lookout
    GitHub: Agent LookoutSite: Agent Lookoutnpm: Agent Lookout

More builds 9

  • create-mn-app

    npm

    Scaffolding CLI that sets up a Midnight app with a Compact contract, a local devnet and deploy scripts.

    9,000+ npm downloads

    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Compact
    • Docker
    • Midnight.js

    npm: create-mn-app

  • Compact Playground

    Open source

    Compile API for Compact that adds Run buttons to code samples and was the hosted compiler behind the Midnight MCP server.

    Original author and maintainer

    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Hono
    • Compact
    • Docker
    • Vitest

  • Foundry Axelar GMP example

    Reference

    Working Foundry examples of cross-chain calls and token transfers with Axelar GMP.

    500+ weekly developer activations, 55% cut in integration setup time

    • Solidity
    • Foundry
    • Axelar GMP
    • Axelar ITS
    • OpenZeppelin

  • GiftDice

    Live

    Gift exchange and wishlist platform with AI gift ideas, real-time party games and an installable PWA.

    3,000+ users across 20+ countries

    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • Supabase
    • Redis
    • OpenAI API

  • Article Idea Generator

    Live

    AI writing tool that turns a topic into article titles, plus free tools for writers.

    60 forks and 10 contributors

    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • Supabase
    • OpenAI API
    • Tailwind CSS

    GitHub: Article Idea Generator235 stars

  • AudioBoost

    Open source

    macOS app that fixes quiet video audio with loudness normalisation, without clipping.

    • FFmpeg
    • macOS

  • ZK Loan

    Reference

    Midnight’s example lending app that scores loans on credit data the lender never sees.

    Top contributor, 51 of 107 commits, including a security fix

    • TypeScript
    • Compact
    • React
    • Vite
    • Docker

  • Learn Compact

    Live

    Interactive book and exercises that teach Compact, Midnight’s zero-knowledge contract language.

    9 chapters and 17 exercises

    • Compact
    • mdBook
    • JavaScript
    • Netlify

    GitHub: Learn Compact

  • web3terms

    Open source

    Twitter bot and REST API that explain Web3 terms in plain English.

    97 merged pull requests from 31 contributors

    • JavaScript
    • Node.js
    • Express
    • Twitter API
    • Jest

    116 stars

  • More on GitHub

More on GitHub

Talks and workshops

Tutorials, workshops and explainers.

  • Latest

    University of Zurich International Summer School

    Guest lecture on Midnight

    2026

  • Keynote

    Blockfest Africa

    Beyond H-1B: building global tech careers from Africa

    Lagos, 2025

    12,000 participants from 50+ countries

All talks on YouTubeSpeaker profile on Sessionize

On stage

  • 2025–26MidnightBi-weekly fireside chats on AI-assisted developer tooling, including a demo of the Midnight MCP server
  • 2025EthCCSpeaker
  • 2025Build Afrika SummitFounder and hostLagos
  • 2024DevconSpeaker
  • 2023OsmoconTalk · Cross-chain interoperability with Axelar NetworkParis
  • 2022Mara Developer Campus ClubWorkshop · Building and integrating USDC into web applications
  • 2022DevFest LagosTalk · Leveraging USDC to efficiently build decentralised applications in Web3
  • 2022CityJS ConferenceTalk · JavaScript supremacy: building a scalable full-stack application with JavaScriptLagos

Experience

Seven years in backend engineering and developer relations.

  1. Midnight Foundation

    Developer Educator, Developer Relations

    Sep 2025–Sep 2026

    • Built the Midnight MCP server (10,000+ downloads, 11,900+ agent tool calls).
    • Led the docs overhaul for AI retrieval, including the docs AI assistant, and used the 784 questions it received to plan new content.
    • Launched Midnight Academy (1,576 enrolled, 1,120+ certified) and a 12-part video series.
    • Built create-mn-app, Compact Playground and Compact by Example, and kept example repos current with CI and on-call.
    • Ran partner integrations, workshops and two content-bounty cohorts.

  2. Axelar / Interop Labs

    Developer Relations Engineer

    Apr 2023–Aug 2025

    • First developer-relations engineer on the team, under the Head of Developer Relations.
    • Embedded with partner engineering teams as solution architect, from discovery to production launch.
    • Built a Foundry reference implementation that cut cross-chain integration setup time 55% (500+ weekly developer activations).
    • Supported 100,000+ developers through debugging, talks and workshops at 4.8/5 satisfaction.
    • Tracked the onboarding funnel to remove adoption blockers, and grew docs usage 120%.

  3. Mara

    Developer Relations Engineer

    Jul 2022–Apr 2023

    • Cut developer onboarding time 65% by redesigning the docs-to-production path.
    • Created Mara Academy’s technical courses, growing it to 19,000+ active developers at 85% monthly retention.
    • Built the campus club from 0 to 18+ universities in Kenya and Nigeria, and reached 30,000+ developers through conferences, hackathons and workshops.
    • Set up the feedback pipeline into product and managed strategic partners.

  4. Luna

    Backend Engineer

    Dec 2021–Jul 2022

    • Built a multi-tenant payment service on Apache Kafka for 50,000+ users, integrating Stripe, PayPal and bank payments.
    • Built the authentication and encryption layer.
    • Improved performance 63% through caching and a move to microservices, and held 99.9% uptime with monitoring and alerting.
    • Mentored three junior engineers on system design.

  5. PhilanthroLab

    Backend Engineer (promoted to backend team lead)

    Feb 2021–Dec 2021

    • Built most of the backend infrastructure and shipped the MVP.
    • Then led technical programmes, system design, code reviews, documentation and architecture decisions.
    • Designed an automated data lake processing 100 GB+ a month.
    • Improved performance 50% with GraphQL, Node.js, Neo4j and Elasticsearch, and automated workflows saving 1,000+ hours a year.

  6. Tavia Technologies

    Software Developer / Support Analyst

    Apr 2019–Jan 2021

    • Built .NET Core and SharePoint solutions for Access Bank, MTN Nigeria (part of MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile operator) and NPDC (the exploration and production arm of NNPC, Nigeria’s national oil company).
    • Automated processes for these clients, saving 900+ hours a year.
    • Ran test-to-production deployments and database migrations with zero data loss.
    • Provided technical support and issue resolution, and wrote handover docs.

Community

  • Web3 AfrikaNow

    Founder

    15,000+ builders across Africa, backed by Developer DAO

  • Blockfest AfricaNow

    Partnerships lead

    Leads the partnership team for the whole event; 12,000 participants in 2025

  • SheCodeAfrica

    Backend community lead

    Ran the backend programmes; SheCodeAfrica has 50,000+ members across 15 African countries

  • Open Source Community Africa

    Volunteer

    Received the OSCA Hero award

EducationB.Eng. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria, 2018

Full CV (PDF)

Writing

Tutorials read 10M+ times.

Published on freeCodeCamp, TechCabal, LogRocket, Dev.to, Medium, Moralis, Section, Alchemy, Infura, Appsmith, Hashnode

All posts on blog.idrisolubisi.comfreeCodeCampDev.toLogRocketMedium

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