CAC Registered · BN 2180265

Engineering
Africa's Digital
Infrastructure

From fintech payment platforms and DevOps pipelines to full eCommerce builds and enterprise APIs — Almond Systems delivers backend systems that scale, perform, and last in Nigeria's demanding production environments.

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Platform Uptime

99.9%

Production SLA · GCP + Azure

Core Stack

Python · FastAPI✓

Node.js · NestJS✓

Kafka · Redis✓

Docker · CI/CD✓

Experience

13+

Years in Production

Founder's Early Vision

The Speech That
Started It All

Watch Kpono-Abasi Akpabio's early founding speech — the declaration of the technology mission that eventually became Almond Systems. Raw vision; now live products.

Founder's Speech

Where We Are Now

5 Live Platforms —
Built & Running in Production

That founding vision is now shipping code. Five active products across eCommerce, logistics, wellness, services, and culture — all engineered, hosted, and maintained by Almond Systems.

BuySmart Nigeriabuysmartng.com · eCommerce Platform

Ibom Servicesibomservices.com · Service Marketplace

Graces Wellness Gardensgraceswellnessgardens.com · Wellness

Lulu Culture Foundationluluculturefoundation.org · Non-Profit

Traffic Warehousetrafficwarehouse.com.ng · Logistics

What We Build

Premium Digital Services
for Ambitious Teams

Every service is battle-tested in real Nigerian production environments — from the country's largest eCommerce platform to government payroll systems and national banking infrastructure.

DevOps & CI/CD Engineering

Production-grade CI/CD pipelines with Docker, GitHub Actions, and GCP. We define DORA metrics, on-call runbooks, and alerting from day one — not as an afterthought.

DockerGitHub ActionsGCPKubernetesPrometheus

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Cloud Hosting & Infrastructure

Managed cloud deployment on Google Cloud and Azure — provisioning, autoscaling, monitoring, incident response, and 99.9% uptime SLAs. You ship; we keep it alive.

GCPAzureNginxGrafanaELK Stack

Host with us

Web Design & eCommerce Dev

Premium web experiences built to convert. Led backend for Yudala (now Konga.com) — Nigeria's largest eCommerce platform — handling millions in flash-sale transactions via Magento and Node.js microservices.

Magento 2WooCommerceShopifyReactTypeScript

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Custom Backend & API Solutions

Microservices, REST & GraphQL APIs, event-driven systems with Kafka and Redis — engineered for the throughput and latency your business demands. We write RFCs and ADRs, not just code.

PythonNode.jsFastAPIKafkaPostgreSQLMongoDB

Build something custom

Fintech & Payment Integration

PCI-DSS compliant integration across Interswitch, Flutterwave, Paystack, GTPay, and Netplus — with escrow systems, OTP/token auth, audit trails, and financial reconciliation from day one.

InterswitchFlutterwavePaystackGTPayPCI-DSS

Integrate payments

Automation Scripts & ERP Tooling

Internal SDKs, automation scripts, Odoo ERP customisation, and shared libraries. From Osun State government payroll modules to FIRS auto-deduct scripts for Splynx and SAGE — we automate the right things.

PythonOdooBashSAGEWebhooks

Automate your workflow

Flagship Product · In Development

AlmondPay

The escrow-secured payments & checkout API for African social commerce.

Nigerians lose billions every year to "pay first" fraud on Instagram, WhatsApp and marketplace selling. AlmondPay holds the buyer's money in regulated escrow and releases it to the seller only on delivery — turning every chat into a trusted checkout.

The Problem

Buyers pay upfront and never receive goods
Sellers ship and get charged back or ghosted
Social sellers have no trusted checkout — just an account number in DMs

AlmondPay

One link or virtual account locks funds in escrow
Funds release on delivery confirmation or auto-timeout
Disputes resolved with a full, auditable money trail

Escrow Hold & Release

Funds sit in a regulated trust account until both sides are satisfied — hold, release, refund or split with one API call.

WhatsApp & Link Checkout

Generate a secure pay-link or virtual account a seller can drop in any chat — no website required.

Multi-Gateway Orchestration

Paystack, Flutterwave, Interswitch and bank transfers behind one endpoint, with automatic failover and split payouts.

Reconciliation & Audit Trail

PCI-DSS-grade logging, settlement reports and webhooks built for compliance from day one.

create_escrow.sh

# Lock a buyer's payment in escrow
curl -X POST https://api.almondpay.ng/v1/escrow \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_•••" \
  -d '{
    "amount": 75000,
    "currency": "NGN",
    "buyer": "buyer@mail.com",
    "seller": "shop_2180265",
    "release_on": "delivery"
  }'

# → funds held · seller paid on delivery
{
  "status": "held_in_escrow",
  "checkout_url": "pay.almondpay.ng/e/9Xk2",
  "protected": true
}

₦8.2tn

Nigerian e-commerce GMV, fragmented & trust-starved

90M+

Social-commerce buyers across Nigeria & West Africa

Reason carts are abandoned: fear of being scammed

Want early access to the AlmondPay API — or to white-label escrow into your own platform?

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The Founder

13+ Years of Production Experience
Before Almond Systems Was Born

The depth you get from Almond Systems comes from a founder who spent over a decade inside Nigeria's most demanding technology environments — as individual contributor, team lead, and architect.

Kpono-Abasi Akpabio

Founder & CEO · OCJP Certified

13+ Yrs Oracle OCJP B.Sc. CS MTN Leadership

The Career Behind the Company

Before founding Almond Systems, Kpono-Abasi built internet banking systems, ran eCommerce at national scale on Konga.com, engineered identity software for Chams PLC, and attended the MTN Leadership Seminar with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Every milestone below is personal career experience — the raw material powering Almond Systems today.

2025 – Present

Almond Systems — Uyo, Akwa Ibom

Founder & CEO / Fullstack Engineer

PythonFastAPIRedisPostgreSQLDockerCI/CD

2024

Zendwave

Backend Engineer

FlaskMongoDBWebSocketsSwagger

2023 – 2024

MTN Nigeria (eShop) — Project

Magento 2 Backend Engineer

Magento 2GraphQLPHPNext Gen

2023

VDT Communications

Team Lead, IT Solutions

ISO 9001SAGESplynxAlepoDevOps

2022 – 2023

Payviame & Entermarket

Solution Architect

GCPInterswitchFlutterwavePCI-DSSRFC/ADR

2018 – 2022

Chamsmobile Ltd. (Chams PLC)

Python / Odoo ERP Senior Engineer

OdooLaravelIdentity MgmtPayrollRBAC

2015 – 2017

Yudala Limited (now Konga.com) — Lagos

Web Developer / eCommerce Engineer

MagentoPHPNode.jsGTPayNetplusREST API

2013 – 2015

SB Telecoms

Software Engineer

TelecomsOEM AppsJavaAPI

2011 – 2013

Integrated Software Services Ltd. (ISSL) — Surulere

Backend Engineer

JavaInternet BankingOTP/TokenFintech

2008 – 2009

Delic Solutions — Enugu (NYSC)

Software Engineer (National Youth Service Corps)

NYSCWeb DevJava

Career in Photos — Personal Journey

Real moments from the founder's engineering career — the experience behind Almond Systems.

Delic Solutions — Enugu

NYSC · 2008–2009 · First engineering role

Sterling Bank Internet Banking

ISSL Surulere · OTP/Token Auth · 2013

TECNO App Challenge · OEM & Telco

Pre-installed apps · Mobile software dev

Yudala (now Konga.com) — Lagos

Nigeria's largest eCommerce · 2015–2017

Chams PLC — Identity Management

Odoo ERP · Employee Self Service · 2018–2022

Solution Architecture & Design

Complex system whiteboarding · Personal career

MTN Leadership Seminar

With Steve Wozniak, Co-founder Apple

TAMS Platform — Almond Systems

Live system delivery · 2025

Tech Training & Knowledge Transfer

Empowering Nigeria's next engineers