About

I'm Tobiloba Adedeji — a software engineer based in Lagos, Nigeria. I build infrastructure for AI agents and programs on Solana. I believe the best software is built in the open, with clear constraints, and a bias toward simplicity.

Right now, I'm at Idyllic Labs, where I research and build agent-native infrastructure — tools that help organizations deploy, coordinate, and manage AI agents in production. Before that, I contributed to Million.js (16K+ stars), a virtual DOM replacement for React, and was featured on JS Party (Changelog), JavaScript Jabber, Front-End Fire, and HTML All The Things for that work.

What I'm working on

My work sits at two intersections: AI agent infrastructure and Solana program engineering.

On the agent side, I've built agentgateway (an API gateway for AI agent fleets), financial-harness (a 12-layer security stack for agents that handle money), a GitHub PR review agent with Gaia (8+ stars), a Minecraft AI agent that navigates and gathers resources autonomously, and the Eliza Firecrawl plugin for web-aware agents. I also built the Mother AI coordination agent with CollabLand for multi-agent task orchestration. I'm researching coordination primitives that prevent multi-agent deadlocks — the kind of boring, foundational work that makes agents actually reliable in production.

On the Solana side, I've built Khoai (a barrier options AMM using Pinocchio with zero allocations), tx-indexer (a transaction classification SDK), sol-fuzz (an AI-powered security scanner that finds vulnerabilities in Anchor programs), an on-chain escrow, and contributed to the Solana Foundation's x402-nextjs template and framework-kit for building dApps.

On the systems side, I've built an HTTP server from scratch in Rust (concurrent connections, path routing, file serving — no frameworks) and a Unix shell in Rust (command parsing, piping, process management). Because understanding the primitives matters.

Writing

I write about agent architecture, Solana engineering, and building in the open. Some highlights:

  • "How To Use Million.js In a Next App" — 63+ reactions, the most popular Million.js tutorial on dev.to
  • "Eliza, AI Agents, and Fleek" — 51+ reactions, defining the Eliza + decentralized infra playbook
  • "Million 3.0: All You Need To Know" — 39+ reactions, the official v3 release companion
  • "Building an AI-Powered Minecraft Agent with Gaia" — autonomous agents meet gaming
  • "I Put a Deepseek AI Agent on Fleek" — 18+ reactions, decentralized AI deployment
  • "Your Agent Is Not Stupid. Your Harness Is." — provocative take on harness engineering vs model upgrades
  • "Your Multi-Agent System Needs a Kernel, Not a Bigger Brain" — why LLMs deadlock 95% of the time in simultaneous coordination

Background

I run Toby Solutions Integrated Services Limited, my LLC. I've worked with the Solana Foundation, Livepeer Foundation, Fleek, Gaianet AI, CollabLand, and done a video demo gig for Coinbase Developers.

My B.Sc thesis at the University of Lagos is MCPGuard — a context-aware security proxy for the Model Context Protocol that transforms the MCP communication model from implicit trust to zero trust. It sits between AI agents and MCP tool servers, inspecting JSON-RPC traffic, enforcing least-privilege policies, and detecting plan injection attacks in real time.

I'm a Solana Turbine Q4 2025 graduate — trained in Anchor development, Solana program architecture, and on-chain system design. I co-founded Solana Students Africa and led a campus tour across Nigerian universities with Kronos Guild, teaching Solana development and onboarding hundreds of students into the ecosystem. That work culminated in the Solana Students Africa Summit at the University of Lagos — bringing together hundreds of young builders from across the continent for hackathons, workshops, and panels.

Most notably, I've been at Idyllic Labs, where I've gone deep on agent coordination research, harness engineering, and building the tooling layer that sits between AI models and production deployments. Our Elements of Agentic System Design framework (18+ stars) decomposes intelligent systems into 10 foundational elements.

Speaking

I've spoken about performance, open source, agent infrastructure, and developer tooling on podcasts and at events including:

Conferences:

  • OSCAFEST — Open Source Festival, Lagos
  • DevFest Lagos — "Using Upstash Vector to optimize LLM usage"
  • CityJS Lagos — JavaScript conference
  • SailsConf Africa — 2024
  • Web3Lagos
  • Solana Students Africa Summit — Co-convener and speaker, UNILAG (2025)
  • Nithub Career Session — "Career Pathways in Tech", UNILAG (2026)
  • MCPGuard Defense — B.Sc thesis presentation, Department of Computer Sciences, UNILAG (2026)

Podcasts:

  • JS Party #279 — "Million ways to render" (Changelog, 2023)
  • JavaScript Jabber JSJ 589 — Million.js deep dive (2023)
  • Front-End Fire — Million.js v3 debut interview
  • HTML All The Things — "Make React Faster Using Million 3"

What I believe

  • Infrastructure beats intelligence. The model is rarely the bottleneck. The system around it is. A better harness delivers more than a bigger brain.
  • Open source is leverage. 255+ public repos because building in the open compounds — in skills, in trust, and in impact.
  • Constraints produce clarity. no_std, zero-alloc Solana programs. 50-line coordination primitives. The best code is the code you don't write.
  • Ship, measure, iterate. Not "move fast and break things" — move deliberately and fix things as you go.

Get in touch

I'm most active on Twitter / X and LinkedIn (13K+ followers). I also post on YouTube and write on dev.to. If you're working on something interesting — or want to — reach out.