Ope Mesonrale
Founder & Lead AI Engineer Dabira AI at Open Retail
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolOpe Mesonrale is a founder and lead AI engineer with nine years of experience designing production-grade backend and AI infrastructure, now based in Lagos. He built and shipped Dabira—a self-hosted AI data assistant that translates natural language into optimized SQL and streams real-time insights while prioritizing data privacy and performance. His background spans microservices, Kafka event streams, NestJS backends, and React frontends, with hands-on experience fine-tuning LLaMA models and integrating GPT-4o-mini for transactional analytics. Ope has a track record of rapidly taking systems from concept to production (Dabira launched in under four months) and optimizing model cost, latency, and observability for enterprise use. He blends a mechanical engineering foundation and an MIT postgraduate degree in IT with practical fintech and telemedicine product experience, uniquely positioning him to bridge rigorous engineering with applied AI. Outside core engineering, he’s built agentic automation and MCP tooling to let teams query databases securely with natural language—an often overlooked but impactful focus in his work.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Master of Information Technology, Postgraduate Degree Master of Information Technology at University of LagosComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Zero To Mastery AcademyBachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University
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Github Skills (95)
react-native-app10
remote-config10
in-app-purchase10
google-auth10
receipt-validation10
firebase10
auth10
push-notifications10
api10
points10
obsolete10
react-hooks10
crashlytics10
storage10
cross-platform10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MaSSTeck/pqm
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 33 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
Seunope/aloc-endpoints
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
6,000 past questions API end points for POST-UTME, UTME, WASSCE, NECO questions
Contributions:80 commits, 22 PRs, 89 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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