Usman Ayobami

Software Engineer · Bay Area

I’m a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. I completed my MSc in Computer Science in 2025 from Western Michigan University. I love building software that’s simple, helpful, and human-centered.

I started Core Extract in September 2025 — digitizing America's subsurface, one well at a time. We extract structured data from scanned well logs in seconds, not weeks. Before that, I interned at Daylight Health (Apr–Sep 2025), where I helped build software that integrates mental health care into primary care practices and improved how providers manage and deliver behavioral health services.

My background is in petroleum engineering, but I pivoted into software after discovering how much I loved building things that solve everyday problems. I started my career at AfriLearn, where I built educational tools for secondary students. Later, at PanAfrican Capital, I led a team building internal platforms for finance and HR.

I’ve co-founded ventures like Lodgeek (a property management tool) and contributed to the developer ecosystem with GeoNG, an open-source package for Nigerian geographical data, and meeting-detection, a macOS meeting detection engine for Electron and Node.js, built with Rust and exposed to JavaScript via napi-rs.

I'm especially interested in machine learning for extracting signal from messy, real-world data — Core Extract applies this to well logs, turning scanned documents into structured subsurface data in seconds instead of weeks.

Outside of work, I’m usually listening to music, learning something new, or dreaming about building a company that makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

I’m always open to conversations about product, engineering, education, or impact-driven tech.

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