Joseph Anya

Product Engineer
Lagos, NG.

About

Product engineer with 4+ years building AI-powered clinical systems and financial data infrastructure. Founder of Lifebox Labs, a telehealth platform for chronic disease management with production-grade LLM integration, HL7/FHIR interoperability, and HIPAA-compliant architecture. Track record of shipping full-stack products end-to-end — from mobile app to distributed backend — with a particular focus on applying AI agents and RAG pipelines to real clinical and financial problems.

Work

Lifebox Labs
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Product Engineer and Founder

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

Led the technical vision and full-stack development of a telehealth platform, enabling comprehensive patient care pathways from intake to pharmacy fulfillment.

Highlights

Architected and shipped a full-stack telehealth platform — patient intake, async consults, prescribing, and pharmacy fulfillment — scaling from 0 to 4,000 active patients with 99.6% uptime.

Built an LLM-powered health coaching assistant that synthesises patient medical history, lab results, biomarker data, meal logs, and care plans into personalised clinical guidance — reducing care coordination overhead for clinicians.

Developed a cross-platform mobile app in Flutter enabling continuous remote monitoring and asynchronous care for patients with chronic conditions (diabetes, hypertension).

Led enterprise EHR integration via HL7/FHIR, enabling bidirectional data sharing with hospital systems and unlocking institutional partnerships.

Implemented HIPAA-compliant security architecture including AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit, RBAC, and full audit logging.

Mono
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Product Engineer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

Developed high-performance internal tooling for transaction classification, optimizing system integration and enhancing developer experience for a fintech platform.

Highlights

Built internal tooling for classifying transactions focusing on performance and system integration, using Typescript and MongoDB.

Collaborated with the mobile engineering team to optimize Mono's Flutter SDK, enhancing developer experience and driving platform adoption by 20%.

Wellahealth
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Product Manager

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

Led cross-functional product and engineering teams to launch Wellahealth 2.0, optimizing user experience and reducing customer churn for health microinsurance products.

Highlights

Successfully launched Wellahealth 2.0 in May 2022 by leading product and engineering collaboration, significantly enhancing user experience.

Reduced customer churn by 2% through data-driven product improvements and targeted customer engagement strategies.

Co-creation Hub
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Product Manager

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

Managed product development for high-growth startups and digital health initiatives, enhancing user satisfaction and expanding network membership.

Highlights

Increased Net Promoter Score (NPS) for Syndicate by CcHub by 12 points, contributing to over $5 million in investments for high-growth startups.

Launched new features for the Africa Digital Epidemiology Network (ADEIN), boosting membership by 40% and expanding its reach across the continent.

Facilitated stakeholder communication and requirements gathering, translating complex needs into actionable product plans for engineering teams.

Ernst & Young
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Data Analyst

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Summary

Executed data extraction, transformation, and loading processes to support audit analytic software, ensuring data integrity for proprietary client analyses.

Highlights

Extracted, transformed, and loaded diverse client data into EY's proprietary audit analytic software (Helix suite) using Excel and SQL, enabling critical financial analysis.

Developed proficiency in data manipulation and query optimization techniques, contributing to streamlined data preparation workflows.

Projects

Community Health Worker (CHW) AI Assistant

Summary

Built an open-source, offline-first Flutter mobile app that allows Community Health Workers to record and analyze patient interactions using AI.

Bank Operational Monitoring Microservice

Summary

Built a TypeScript microservice for real-time monitoring of banking system availability, analyzing transaction status codes across various time windows to ensure operational reliability.

Financial Data Model Context Protocol Server

Summary

Developed a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to enable AI assistants to securely access Mono's open banking APIs for financial data retrieval, ensuring secure and validated data exchange.

Skills

Programming & Backend

Typescript, Dart, Node.js, Express.js, Nest.js.

Databases

MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis.

AI & ML

LLMs, RAG, Agents, MCP, Mastra, LangChain, Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering.

Frontend

Flutter, React.js, Next.js.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.

Systems & Architecture

Distributed Systems, Microservices Architecture, Event-Driven Design.

Tools

Git, NGINX, Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets, Figma.

Design

User Research, Usability Testing, User Interface Design.

Education

University of Lagos
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Bachelor of Science

Pharmacology

Certificates

Product Led Growth Certification

Issued By

Product School

Product Analytics Certification

Issued By

Product School