Building from Akure, Nigeria

Oluwatobisimi
David Ilori.

An audacious leader and builder exploring how artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, software, embedded systems, and robotics can converge to solve problems we once thought impossible.

400-level Mechatronics Engineering student at FUTA. Beginning a deeper journey into AI/ML, LLMs, embedded systems, and robotics—with curiosity, deliberate practice, and honest ambition.

Oluwatobisimi David Ilori in a thoughtful studio portrait
Builder · Leader · ExplorerB.
01Direction

Build what feels impossible.

I am fascinated by intelligent machines—and by the possibility of bringing computation and physical systems together to create genuinely useful solutions for people.

I started with software. Now I am deliberately expanding into AI and machine learning, embedded systems, robotics, and autonomous systems. I am early in that journey, and I treat every build, course, challenge, and collaboration as a chance to close the gap between curiosity and capability.

My building method

I define the requirements, architecture, user flows, and intended experience, then use AI—primarily Cursor—to accelerate implementation. I test the result, identify where it falls short, direct the next changes, and keep iterating until the product matches the vision.

02Selected work

Ideas made tangible.

Products, experiments, and systems—each one a step toward more ambitious work.

01 / AI voice coaching · Mobile2026 — Present

Shano

In development · ~50% complete

An AI voice running coach that listens during runs and delivers real-time, personalized coaching through a mobile app.

React Native · Expo · Express · Firebase · Google STT/TTS · Gemini

02 / Autonomous agent · Award-winningJuly 2026 — Present

Opportunity Scout

Winning AWS challenge submission

An always-on agent for discovering and evaluating opportunities. Selected among 100 solutions on AWS Builder Center; still being improved beyond the challenge.

TypeScript · AWS Amplify · Agentic AI

03 / Autonomous media · PWAAugust 2026

Verse

Every evening, an AI agent selects a Bible verse, writes an original reflection and prayer, creates matching artwork, and delivers it automatically.

EventBridge · Bedrock · Nova Canvas · Lambda · DynamoDB

04 / Commerce · PWAJune 2026

RedemptionMart

MVP shipped

A hyperlocal marketplace MVP built for Redemption City, with a focused storefront and practical local-commerce experience.

Progressive Web App · Product design · Payments

05 / Robotics learning · Desktop + mobileAugust 2026

2D Transform Studio

A tool for visualising point rotation, translation, and scaling—including each transformation matrix—as an analogue for robotic manipulator motion.

2D transformations · Robotics · Machine vision coursework

06 / Voice interface · WebDecember 2025

BezAI

A lightweight voice-powered AI interface using browser speech recognition, inspired by a DevFest Akure workshop and developed into a working product.

Web Speech API · Gemini · Frontend + backend

07 / Civic technology · Mobility2026 — Present

MedEvac

A community emergency mobility platform designed to dispatch verified tricycle riders to transport patients to the nearest hospital.

Product strategy · Community infrastructure · Mobility

03Current frontier

Learning to build intelligence for languages closer to home.

For my DSN AI Bootcamp application, I am building and evaluating LLM-based solutions that generate topic labels from news written in Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and Nigerian Pidgin. It is a practical first step into the Large Language Model track—not a claim of mastery, but serious work toward it.

Completed · Sep 2026

Fundamentals of Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

AWS Skill Builder

Enrolled

Foundational AI & Machine Learning course

Coursera

Early hardware exposure · Team result

Computer vision on Arduino Uno Q

2nd place, IEEE FUTA Mini Hard Hack

04Leadership & community

Showing up. Taking responsibility.

Leadership, publicity, coordination, service, and communities that keep widening my perspective.

  • Now
    Publicity Lead
    IEEE FUTA Student Branch
  • Now
    Assistant General Secretary
    GOFAMINT Students’ Fellowship, FUTA Chapter
  • 2026
    Program & Speaker Coordination Team Lead
    IEEE GreenTech Pitch Arena, FUTA
  • 2025—26
    Public Relations Officer
    NAMCES FUTA Chapter
  • 2026
    Programs Team Volunteer
    AWS Student Community Day, Akure
  • 2026
    Volunteer
    Purpose and Career Definition 1.0
  • 2026
    Volunteer
    TOP Outreach 7.0 — 71,841 students, 302 schools, 36 states
  • 2022
    Labour & Sanitation Prefect
    Model Secondary School Oba-Ile
Technical and community memberships +
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
  • IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
  • Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technical Community
  • IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology
  • AWS Student Builder Group, FUTA
  • Google Developer Groups on Campus, FUTA
  • Google Developer Groups, Akure
  • National Association of Mechatronics Engineering Students, FUTA
05Recognition

Milestones along the way.

2026

Winner — AWS Build an Always-On Agent Weekend Challenge

Opportunity Scout; selected among 100 solutions on AWS Builder Center and awarded an AWS Builder jacket.

2026

2nd Place — IEEE FUTA Mini Hard Hack Challenge

A team result for a computer-vision and object-identification project on the Arduino Uno Q.

2026

Winner — NUESA FUTA Oratory Contest

Supreme victor of the 2025/2026 engineering oratory contest.

2022

25th JETS National Competition finalist

Silver in Physics, bronze in Computer Science, and team silver in the Interstate Quiz representing Ondo State.

2022

1st Place — NNPC National Science Quiz, Ondo State

₦100,000 one-off grant and progression to the regional stage.

2019—22

National Olympiads

Informatics bronze medals in junior and senior categories; 4th place in Physics, Ondo State, 2022.