Ibrahim Shittu
Senior Software Engineer focused on AI and EdTech
Lagos, Nigeria
United States
Summary
Technical leader and early-stage builder — he repeatedly takes on first-engineer responsibilities: rebuilding production systems, defining architecture, and establishing engineering workflows in small startup teams. ibrahimshittu+1
EdTech and CAD education focus — contributed to building a platform to automate CAD assessment and workflow for universities, helping scale adoption at institutions such as UCL and Imperial College London. ibrahimshittu
Self-taught transition from civil engineering to software — maintains a background in civil engineering while documenting a deliberate, self-driven shift into software, tooling, and AI. ibrahimshittu+1
Practical AI, cloud and DevOps practitioner — authors technical tutorials and builds AI/ML and cloud-native projects, indicating hands-on experience with FastAPI, Azure, AWS, LangGraph/LangChain, and related tooling. ibrahimshittu+1
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
My Journey Building Fabrio: From First Engineering Hire to Serving World-Class Universities
April 1, 2025First-person account of joining Fabrio as the first engineering hire, rebuilding the platform, implementing a serverless AWS architecture, and scaling the product to serve institutions such as UCL and Imperial College London.
Deploying FastAPI to Azure Container Apps with Key Vault, Container Registry, and GitHub Actions
February 1, 2025Technical tutorial and DevOps guide demonstrating how to deploy a FastAPI application to Azure Container Apps using Azure Container Registry, Key Vault for secrets, and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
From Civil Engineering to Software Development: My Career Journey
February 1, 2023A reflective piece describing Shittu's transition from studying civil engineering to becoming a software engineer, covering his self-taught learning path, early projects, and lessons learned.