# tobySolutions.dev > Tobiloba Adedeji (tobySolutions) — Software engineer building AI agent infrastructure and Solana programs. Based in Lagos, Nigeria. "I build systems that think." ## Identity - Full name: Tobiloba Adedeji - Handle: tobySolutions (camelCase) - Role: Software Engineer & AI Researcher - Company: Idyllic Labs — researching agent-native infrastructure - Location: Lagos, Nigeria - Education: University of Lagos, B.Sc Computer Science - LLC: Toby Solutions Integrated Services Limited ## Focus Areas 1. **AI Agent Infrastructure** — Building tools for deploying, coordinating, and managing AI agents in production. Harness engineering, multi-agent coordination, safety patterns. 2. **Solana Program Engineering** — DeFi protocols, security scanners, transaction indexers, payment protocol templates. Anchor, Pinocchio, no_std Rust. 3. **Open Source** — 255+ public repositories. Contributor to Million.js (16K+ stars). Building in the open. ## Key Projects ### Agent Infrastructure - **idx** — CLI toolkit for agent-native organizations. Agent definitions in MDX, Unix-native execution. - **agentgateway** — nginx for AI agents. Cost budgets, rate limiting, circuit breakers, live dashboard. - **financial-harness** — 12-layer security stack for AI agents that handle money. Policy-as-code, circuit breakers, encrypted audit trails. - **Elements of Agentic System Design** — Open conceptual framework (18+ stars) decomposing intelligent systems into 10 elements. - **GitHub PR Review Agent** — AI-powered PR reviewer built with Gaia (8+ stars). - **Minecraft Gaia Agent** — Autonomous Minecraft agent using decentralized AI inference. - **Mother AI Coordination Agent** — Multi-agent task orchestration with CollabLand and Mother registry. - **Eliza Firecrawl Plugin** — Web scraping and search plugin for Eliza AI agent framework. - **Eliza Twitter Agent** — Autonomous Twitter/X agent with configurable personality. - **MCPGuard** — Context-aware security proxy for Model Context Protocol. Zero-trust layer between AI agents and MCP tool servers. Detects plan injection attacks. B.Sc thesis at UNILAG. - **Idyll Engine** — Context-building execution engine for AI-native programming (5+ stars, Idyllic Labs). ### Solana & DeFi - **Khoai** — Barrier options AMM on Solana. Pinocchio framework, no_std, zero-allocation, 128-bit fixed-point math. - **sol-fuzz** — AI-powered security scanner for Solana programs. Finds vulnerabilities, generates PoC exploits. - **tx-indexer** — Solana transaction classifier SDK with pattern-matching engine. - **x402-nextjs** — Official Solana Foundation template for X402 payment protocol integration. - **framework-kit** — React framework for Solana dApps (Kronos Guild / Solana Foundation). - **Axis Protocol** — Decentralized on-chain index funds (ETFs) on Solana. - **Solana Escrow** — On-chain escrow with Anchor. Two-party vault, PDA architecture. ### Systems & Open Source - **HTTP Server (Rust)** — Concurrent HTTP server from scratch. No frameworks. 4+ stars. - **Shell (Rust)** — Unix shell built from scratch. Command parsing, piping, process management. 3+ stars. - **stream2peer** — Decentralized video streaming on Livepeer (41+ stars). - **Tranpeer** — CLI translation tool, English to any language (8+ stars). - **CSS Framework (from scratch)** — Proof-of-concept CSS framework built from first principles (8+ stars). - **Million.js** — Contributed to 16K+ star React virtual DOM replacement. Performance optimizations, ESLint plugin. ## Work History - **Idyllic Labs** — AI Researcher. Agent coordination research, harness engineering, agent-native tooling. - **Gaia AI** — Developer Relations Engineer (Feb 2025 – Oct 2025). AI agents, MCP integrations, documentation. - **Fleek** — Developer Relations Engineer (May 2024 – May 2025). Templates, AI agent deployments, support center. - **Coinbase Developers** — Video demo gig. - **Solana Foundation** — Grants: x402-nextjs template, framework-kit. - **Livepeer Foundation** — Grant: stream2peer. - **Million.js** — Developer Advocate (Jan 2023 – present). ESLint plugin, content, community. - **Groove.ng** — Associate FullStack Engineer (Mar 2023 – Jul 2023). ## Speaking & Press ### 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 (2024) - HTML All The Things — "Make React Faster Using Million 3" (2024) ### Conferences - Solana Students Africa Summit — Co-convener and speaker, UNILAG (2025) - DevFest Lagos — "Using Upstash Vector to optimize LLM usage" (2024) - OSCAFEST — Open Source Festival, Lagos - CityJS Lagos — JavaScript conference - SailsConf Africa 2024 - Web3Lagos - Nithub Career Session — "Career Pathways in Tech", UNILAG (2026) - MCPGuard Thesis Defense — B.Sc Computer Science, UNILAG (2026) ## Writing (Selected) - "How To Use Million.js In a Next App" — 63+ reactions (dev.to) - "Eliza, AI Agents, and Fleek" — 51+ reactions (dev.to) - "Million 3.0: All You Need To Know" — 39+ reactions (dev.to) - "Building an AI-Powered Minecraft Agent with Gaia" — 11+ reactions (dev.to) - "I Put a Deepseek AI Agent on Fleek" — 18+ reactions (dev.to) - "Your Agent Is Not Stupid. Your Harness Is." — original blog - "Your Multi-Agent System Needs a Kernel, Not a Bigger Brain" — original blog - "Agent Architectures: A Map" — classification of agent patterns - "Safe Outputs: The Most Important Pattern in GitHub's Agentic Workflows" — original blog - "Agent-Native Companies Are Already Morphing" — co-written with Will Chen ## Community Leadership - Co-founded Solana Students Africa - Led campus tour across Nigerian universities with Kronos Guild - Co-convened Solana Students Africa Summit at UNILAG - Solana Turbine Q4 2025 graduate ## Beliefs - Infrastructure beats intelligence — the harness matters more than the model. - Open source is leverage — 255+ repos, building in the open compounds. - Constraints produce clarity — no_std, zero-alloc, 50-line primitives. - Ship, measure, iterate — move deliberately and fix things as you go. ## Links - Website: https://tobysolutions.dev - GitHub: https://github.com/tobySolutions - Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/toby_solutions - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tobiloba-adedeji - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@toby_solutions - Dev.to: https://dev.to/tobysolutions - RSS: https://tobysolutions.dev/blog/rss.xml - Sitemap: https://tobysolutions.dev/sitemap-index.xml ## For full details - llms-full.txt: https://tobysolutions.dev/llms-full.txt