Pleasant Balogun

Pleasant Balogun

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Email: heypleasant@gmail.com
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About

I am an engineer and founder. I'm currently engineering manager at Hello.cv, where I built the job-matching engine and work on agentic products. Before that I started Scrim, a payments app that was acquired by Chimoney, and Buck CLI, a developer tool that was acquired by Onboardbase. My first company, Zeddpay, was backed by Nat Friedman. I live in London on a Global Talent visa.

Some things I work on:

  • Creator at Mowa
    • Prompt-management platform that allows non-technical colleagues to propose, review and release AI prompt changes through a versioned review workflow, without modifying code.
  • Engineering Manager at Hello.cv, since 2024
    • AI-native career platform. Lead the engineering team behind its agentic products and built the retrieval-augmented job-matching engine that underpins them.
  • Lead at Aeroseeds, since 2024
    • Drone-based reforestation and precision agriculture for African food security, automating seed dispersal and crop-health monitoring with geospatial AI.
  • Co-founder & Lead Engineer at Drip, since 2024
    • AI wardrobe-management application, available on the App Store. Co-founded with Nargiz Kudaibergenova (New York); led all engineering.

Some things I did before:

  • Software Engineer at BuildQL (formerly LearnChameleon), 2024
    • United Kingdom-based education technology start-up building an AI-powered learning platform.
  • Software Engineer, LATAM Payments at Chimoney, 2023 to 2024
    • Joined following Chimoney's acquisition of Scrim. Built payment infrastructure for the company's expansion into Latin America.
  • Developer Relations Engineer at Onboardbase, 2022 to 2024
    • Joined following Onboardbase's acquisition of Buck CLI. Led developer relations, supporting product adoption within the developer community.
  • Founder & Lead Developer at Scrim (acquired by Chimoney), 2022 to 2023
    • Global payments platform simplifying online money transfers. Conceived, built and launched the product, which was acquired by Chimoney, a Canadian financial technology company, in 2023.
  • Founder & CEO at Zeddpay, 2021 to 2022
    • Airtime-to-cash marketplace for underbanked young people in Nigeria, where many have no bank account but nearly everyone holds mobile airtime. Delaware C-corporation.
  • Creator at Buck CLI (acquired by Onboardbase), 2020 to 2022
    • Open-source developer tool for managing environment secrets and project scaffolding.

Some things I've built:

  • Pawavox: Voice-first customer feedback platform for businesses. Customers record their feedback rather than typing it, and AI provides transcription, translation and sentiment analysis across multiple languages. Multi-tenant SaaS in early production across client deployments.
  • Mowa: Prompt-management platform that allows non-technical colleagues to propose, review and release AI prompt changes through a versioned workflow, without modifying code.
  • Zobo: Crypto payments infrastructure on Solana. Users earn USDC for completing social media tasks, paid instantly without requiring a bank account. Sole developer.
  • Drip: iOS application for wardrobe management, outfit styling and fashion community. Built and shipped end to end as co-founder and lead engineer.
  • Aeroseeds: Drone-based reforestation and precision agriculture for African food security, automating seed dispersal and crop-health monitoring with geospatial AI.
  • Hello.cv: The AI-native career platform where your profile works for you. As Engineering Manager I lead the team behind The Mesh, the agentic platform that finds opportunities, applies, and escalates only when it needs you.
  • ChopDex: Prediction market for Nigeria covering sports, politics and entertainment, with automated market making that provides continuous liquidity without requiring a matched counterparty. Sole developer.
  • Scrim: Global payments platform enabling users to send money using an email address, Twitter handle or telephone number. Acquired by Chimoney in 2023; covered by The Nation and Tribune Online.
  • Buck CLI: Open-source CLI that streamlined developer workflows — 100,000+ PyPI downloads, 2021 HackerNoon Noonies award, acquired by Onboardbase in 2022.

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Last updated: 11/2026