hey, I'm Somkene

Software engineer building products from Lagos, Nigeria.

Backend systems, multi-tenant platforms and the frontends that sit on top of them. This site is my sketchbook: what I'm building, learning and thinking about, updated as it happens.

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SELECTED WORK

Things I've shipped

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JOURNAL MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

Alkademy Press

A multi-tenant journal platform for heavy editorial workflows: async jobs, caching and cloud storage under the hood.

press.alkademy.com ↗

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM

Clouddley

Frontend for a platform where developers spin up apps, databases, VPS instances and AI workloads.

clouddley.com ↗

ECOMMERCE WEBSITE

Celestique

A clothing store for men and women with order tracking and payments built right in.

celestique.vercel.app ↗

STUDENT LEARNING PLATFORM

Appvarsity

A free hub I built for Aptech students: project guides, past questions and courses, kept current every semester.

appvarsity.vercel.app ↗

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THE ROAD SO FAR

Where I've worked

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JOURNAL

Notes from the build

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Aug 92026 · 6 min read

Choosing a data isolation strategy for a multi-tenant SaaS

Why I went with a shared schema and a tenant_id column instead of a database per business, and what it takes to make that safe.

ArchitectureBackendPostgres

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