About
Ifeanyi Mba Kalu, founder of Mpaukwu Trading

Ifeanyi

Founder & Product Builder · Software & AI Engineer · Mpaukwu Trading

I build production software and AI systems that hold together after the demo is over - Nigeria-first, to a global standard. Fifteen-plus shipped products across healthcare, retail, education, property, and applied AI.

Who I am

I'm the engineer behind Mpaukwu Trading, a Nigerian software studio I founded to build products and internal systems for how people actually live and work - hospital and pharmacy workflows, shop and school management, estate access, marketplaces, food technology, and applied AI. Mpaukwu Trading is a CAC-registered business (BN 7294223), and much of what it ships runs against real operators, not just design files.

My work tends to live where the stakes are highest: admin surfaces that explain the business, revenue and trust logic you can inspect, and the boring production discipline - deployment, guardrails, auditability - that decides whether software survives contact with real users. On the AI side I build LLM applications, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol integrations, including a gateway that lets AI agents discover and transact with verified businesses, plus a model router and compliance tooling.

If you're a business looking for someone who can take an idea from "process on a whiteboard" to a deployed, defensible product - and speak plainly about payments, trust, and field realities while doing it - that's the work I do.

What I do

Two lanes, one standard: it has to work after real users and real data hit it.

AI engineering

LLM apps with retrieval and tool use, AI agents, and MCP integrations - built with human-review checkpoints and data-control guardrails, not brittle prompt demos.

Full-stack product

Web apps, mobile/PWA, admin dashboards, and APIs - from data model to deployment, designed so an operator always knows the next action.

Production readiness

Security, abuse cases, revenue and reconciliation logic, and audit trails - the review that catches what breaks before the stakes rise.

Automation & internal tools

Workflow automation and internal systems that remove manual toil without hiding where money and decisions actually move.

Answer-engine readiness

Making products easy for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and search to crawl, understand, cite, and verify - with structured data and source-of-truth validation.

Engagement models

Fixed-scope builds, monthly retainers, or embedded work alongside your team - matched to what the problem actually needs.

Let's talk about your project

Bring a business process, product idea, or a SaaS you need pressure-tested. I usually reply the same day.