01Healthcare platform
AfriHealth (Hydra)
Backend engineering across a multi-tenant hospital platform spanning clinical, administrative, provider, and staff workflows.
- 300+ REST endpoints
- 81 database migrations
- 20+ clinical modules
I build the systems
products depend on.
I'm Nicholas Ugbala, a software engineer turning complex healthcare, real-time, and AI-enabled workflows into reliable products people can use.
Explore selected workProduction evidence
2+years building production software
97k+lines in a TypeScript healthcare codebase
0production incidents across 21 months
Selected work · 2024–2026
Useful software,
carefully engineered.
A selection of production work and active projects across healthcare, real-time communication, practical AI, and focused SaaS products.
02Real-time consultation
Oyster Meet
A role-aware virtual consultation experience with secure sessions, consent-aware cloud recording, screen sharing, and real-time messaging.
- Agora RTC / RTM
- Dual-token auth
- Cloud recording
03Practical AI integration
AskOyster AI (Pearl)
Application-layer integration of an existing domain-specialized RAG service, with streamed responses and user context aware skincare recommendations.
- SSE streaming
- Routine generation
- Safety-aware output
04Product in progress
Munachi
An event and ceremony budget tracker growing into a focused multi-tenant SaaS for hosts, families, and planning teams.
- Multi-tenant design
- Budget workflows
- Early-stage build
Experience
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Jul 2024 – Mar 2026
AfriHealth Limited
Software Engineer
Built and evolved backend systems for a large healthcare product while maintaining careful access control, schema reliability, and production stability.
Aug 2025 – Apr 2026
Oyster Skin
Software Engineer · Founding Engineer
Shipped AI-enabled skincare and real-time consultation features across Laravel services and React interfaces in an early-stage product environment.
How I work
Product sense.
Backend depth.
My best work sits where domain complexity meets real user needs. I care about clear boundaries, reliable data, calm interfaces, and systems the next engineer can understand.
I've worked across clinical workflows, payments, provider integrations, AI product features, and real-time sessions. Today, I'm deepening that practice through a healthcare LangGraph triage project with explicit safety boundaries, evaluation, and human escalation.
Design for failureExplain the tradeoffShip with care
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