TomiwaPhilip™

Ambitious teams need engineering partners who can ship across AI, Web3, mobile, and core product without juggling four vendors. Most studios optimize for billable hours, not compounding outcomes.

Founded Shakes Labs as a long-horizon partnership studio: ride-along CTO services, product + infra co-design, and a shared bench across AI, Web3, mobile, and web. Each engagement starts from a thesis, not a backlog — we earn the right to stay by making the next sprint cheaper than the last.

20+ production products delivered. Several clients now run their entire technical roadmap through Shakes Labs. The studio is the umbrella for everything I'm building — ventures, advisory, and the lab.

Cross-border B2B settlements were slow, opaque, and stalked by counterparty risk. The status quo was correspondent banking — expensive, sluggish, jurisdiction-locked.

Architected a high-performance settlement engine running 100,000+ daily transactions on stablecoin rails with 99.99% uptime. Layered a proprietary Trust-as-a-Service (TaaS) protocol on top — decentralized verification + multi-sig — to eliminate counterparty risk. LLM-driven anomaly detection monitored transaction patterns in real time for fraud and regional compliance.

45% reduction in fraud-related losses. Compliance with evolving regional fintech regulations baked into the runtime. A trust primitive that B2B and retail users could actually rely on.

Nigerian retail crypto users want utility — bill payments, virtual cards, P2P — not just speculation. Stablecoin rails are fast but disconnected from local banking (NGM).

Spearheaded the technical roadmap and product strategy for a next-gen crypto-fiat payment gateway. Engineered a high-throughput infrastructure that bridges stablecoin rails with local banking, enabling bill payments, virtual card issuance, and peer-to-peer transfers. Defined and executed the GTM playbook positioning the platform as a 'crypto-native OPay.'

Sub-6-second finality. 40% reduction in cross-border remittance overhead. Positioned for 26M+ potential retail users across Nigeria.

Businesses need wallet infrastructure that's enterprise-grade out of the box — multi-chain, programmable, observable — without spending a year stitching primitives.

Designed and shipped a fullstack wallet platform from the ground up, supporting Base, Avalanche, Ethereum, and Solana. Modular service architecture, API-first, with an admin surface and SDK for downstream products.

1,000+ businesses now run on it. Reference architecture for what a small team can ship when the scope is ruthlessly tight.

Build an engineering org that can move fast on AI/ML while keeping production reliable and the codebase humane.

Drove the technical strategy, hired and grew a high-performing team, and shipped multiple AI-powered products. Oversaw design, implementation, and deployment of scalable services.

Engineering culture and product velocity that outlived my tenure. Foundational AI features still in production.