Sam Okafor

Builds the auth, data, and infrastructure layer every MVP needs before anything else works — the unglamorous part that determines whether the rest holds up.

Row Level Security on every table by default, not bolted on after a scare. The kind of backend a founder stops thinking about because it just doesn't break.

Early-stage teams usually find out their data model was wrong the hard way — after a migration under production load, or after a security review flags a table anyone could read. The fix is to get the boring decisions right the first time: who owns which row, what's encrypted, what's logged, what happens when a request fails halfway through. None of it shows up in a demo. All of it shows up six months later if it's missing.