BenedictJOURNEY / GHANA → OPEN QUESTIONS
Closer to the machine.
Backend work led to Web3 infrastructure. Orchestration raised questions about workload placement. Native execution research asks what happens below the application boundary.
Prior / Education
Kumasi High School
Secondary education in Kumasi, Ghana, before the technical university programme.
2024 / Role
Junior Backend Engineer, Tokenated
Joined Tokenated as a junior backend engineer, working on the services behind an NFT and hiring marketplace.
2024 / Recognition
Ghana Statistical Service hackathon
Placed second in Sunyani Technical University’s internal qualification competition, then represented the university at the national statistical-data hackathon.
2025 / Role
Tokenated — Web3 product and systems work
Continued Web3 and smart-contract engineering at Tokenated, moving from backend services toward blockchain infrastructure.
2025 / Build
MarcediVault, at Xentrius
Backend work on custodial wallet infrastructure under Xentrius Ltd: embedded accounts, blockchain interactions, balance and transaction data, key protection and approval flows.
2025 / Build
ZeroSight Protocol
Cryptographic backend work involving PIN-based AES encryption, unique salts, no stored plaintext PIN and recovery mechanisms. No independent security audit is claimed.
2025 / Programme
JBLB Geng
Participation in JBLB Geng, carried out alongside the Tokenated and Xentrius work of that year.
2025 / Programme
AyaHQ × Lisk incubation programme
Took part in the 2025 AyaHQ × Lisk incubation programme for African Web3 builders, based at the AyaHQ Builder Hub in Accra.
2026 / Company
Jungle Grid
Built Jungle Grid, an execution layer routing AI workloads across heterogeneous compute infrastructure. Workload orchestration led to questions about moving computation below the application layer.
2026 / Research
Naught Labs
Independent research into native execution, computation placement and distributed runtimes, alongside the question of how workloads can avoid blindly trusting execution machines.
2026 / Credentials
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS re/Start Graduate
Both AWS credentials were earned in October 2026 and are listed on a public Credly profile.
2026 / Planned
CampusForge
Developing an independent student-focused engineering community. Hackathons, engineering challenges and collaboration are intended activities, not completed events.
Ongoing / Education
BTech Computer Science, Sunyani Technical University
Studying Computer Science at Sunyani Technical University in Sunyani, Ghana. The degree is in progress, so no graduation year is claimed.
