I work across three things that turn out to overlap more than they should: training and evaluating AI systems for a living, building freelance web and Web3 products for clients, and writing fiction on the side. Most days that means judging model output against a rubric in the morning and writing a Solidity contract or a Lovable build prompt by evening.
I am based in Lagos. Pricing for client work is quoted in naira, and a lot of what I build starts as a hackathon submission before it becomes something someone actually pays for. I go by Nero online and Emmanuel everywhere else.
I did not come up through a single track. Data annotation and evaluation work at places like Scale AI, Outlier AI, and Handshake AI taught me how strict a rubric can be. Roles at Pira-Tech, Leadway Health, and IBM taught me the other end: shipping something a business actually depends on. The freelance and Web3 work is where those two habits meet.
- Scale AI
- Outlier AI
- Handshake AI
- Pira-Tech
- Leadway Health
- IBM