Afrombira

Overview

Afrombira is an African music-streaming platform supporting both web and mobile users. I led the project — owning the architecture and driving the MVP to delivery — across the backend, web, mobile coordination, and infrastructure.

My Role & Contributions

This was a leadership and architecture role:

• Architecture design — designed the system across backend, web, and mobile.
• Team leadership — led the team and coordinated the mobile app work.
• MVP delivery — drove the product to a delivered MVP.
• Audio-streaming infrastructure — built the streaming backbone.
• Authentication — Google and Apple sign-in.
• Subscriptions — subscription management and billing.
• Push notifications across the apps.
• Infrastructure — AWS setup and CI/CD implementation.

Key Features

• Audio streaming for African music.
• Web and mobile clients.
• Google & Apple authentication.
• Subscriptions for premium access.
• Push notifications.

Tech Stack & Architecture

• Backend: NestJS with PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Web: Next.js.
• Mobile: React Native.
• Infra: AWS, Docker, Cloudflare, with CI/CD.
• Payments & messaging: Stripe and Firebase (push notifications).

Challenges & Solutions

• Audio-streaming infrastructure — designing streaming that performs well across web and mobile.
• Leading delivery — coordinating a team and the mobile app while owning the architecture and keeping the MVP on track.
• Infrastructure from scratch — standing up AWS, Docker, and CI/CD so the product could ship and scale.

Timeline

March 2026 – Present · Ongoing

Links

Live at afrombira.com.