I'm Michael Essandoh, a cloud-native solutions architect in Accra. Fifteen years of shipping platforms, AI systems and geospatial software for teams that can't afford downtime.
Now
These are live products, not side experiments. I own the architecture, the code and the infrastructure they run on.
Container orchestration in a single static binary: containerd runs the containers, its own eBPF datapath handles the network, and TLS comes from Let's Encrypt. None of it is Kubernetes, so there is no CNI to choose and no operator reconciling another operator.
A MIDI control surface that runs on an iPad, iPhone or Android device, with pads, faders and knobs laid out the way they sit on hardware. It talks to Resolume, ProPresenter or any DAW over USB, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
A geo-aware social platform. People find communities, events and stories through the real places they belong to.
A geospatial app that gives any point on earth a unique address you can share. It is built for the regions street addressing never reached.
Selected work
Experience
Global Payex Technologies Ltd
Omni Strategies
Andela
Petra Trust Company Ltd
GhroupDrive
VasSoft Ghana
Bsystems Ltd
Stack
Opinionated, boring where it counts, and chosen so a small team can run it without a platform department.
Hobbies
What keeps me sane when the clusters are healthy.
I take on a small number of platform, AI and geospatial engagements each year. If that sounds like your problem, say hello.