Joseph Anya

Joseph Anya

Product Engineer and Entrepreneur

Lagos, NG.

About

Product engineer and founder with 4+ years building AI-powered products and scalable backend infrastructure. Founded Lifebox Labs, parent company of Priv Health (men's digital health) and Custodia Health (diabetes and hypertension management), scaling both to production with HL7/FHIR interoperability and HIPAA-compliant architecture. Focused on applying AI agents and RAG pipelines to real clinical and financial problems, with a track record of shipping full-stack products end-to-end — from mobile app to distributed backend.

Work

Lifebox Labs

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Product Engineer and Founder

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Founder and engineer of Priv and Custodia — HIPAA-compliant digital health platforms scaled to 3,000+ active users. Built the full clinical stack end-to-end: consumer apps, clinician tooling, and autonomous multi-agent AI for personalized remote care.

Highlights

Architected and shipped two consumer health platforms end-to-end (Priv Health and Custodia Health) — from async workflow orchestration to fulfillment logistics — scaling Priv to 2,000 active users and Custodia to 1,000 active users.

Deployed a multi-agent AI system (a health coaching assistant and a meal planning assistant) that synthesizes patient medical history, biomarker data, and meal logs into personalized clinical guidance, achieving a 98%+ autonomous resolution rate

Built and deployed multi-agent health coaching and meal-planning system that synthesizes patient medical history, biomarker data, and meal logs — autonomously resolving 98%+ of users interactions without human escalation.

Designed and built the Custodia Health patient-facing app — spanning onboarding, health tracking, education, provider communication, and AI agent interactions — enabling continuous remote monitoring and asynchronous care delivery.

Built internal tooling app for clinicians giving them real-time visibility into caseloads, patient progress, plus communication tools to deliver and coordinate remote care.

Implemented HIPAA-compliant security architecture including AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit, RBAC, and full audit logging.

Mono

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Product Engineer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Developed high-performance internal tooling for transaction classification and optimized Mono's Flutter SDK with the mobile team — driving a 20% increase in platform adoption.

Highlights

Built internal tooling for classifying transactions focusing on performance and system integration, using Typescript and MongoDB.

Collaborated with the mobile engineering team to optimize Mono's Flutter SDK, enhancing developer experience and driving platform adoption by 20%.

Wellahealth

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Product Manager

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Led cross-functional product and engineering teams to launch Wellahealth 2.0, optimizing user experience and reducing customer churn for health microinsurance products.

Highlights

Successfully launched Wellahealth 2.0 in May 2022 by leading product and engineering collaboration, significantly enhancing user experience.

Reduced customer churn by 2% through data-driven product improvements and targeted customer engagement strategies.

Co-creation Hub

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Product Manager

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Managed product development for high-growth startups and digital health initiatives, enhancing user satisfaction and expanding network membership.

Highlights

Increased Net Promoter Score (NPS) for Syndicate by CcHub by 12 points, contributing to over $5 million in investments for high-growth startups.

Launched new features for the Africa Digital Epidemiology Network (ADEIN), boosting membership by 40% and expanding its reach across the continent.

Facilitated stakeholder communication and requirements gathering, translating complex needs into actionable product plans for engineering teams.

Ernst & Young

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Data Analyst Intern

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Executed data extraction, transformation, and loading processes to support audit analytic software, ensuring data integrity for proprietary client analyses.

Highlights

Extracted, transformed, and loaded diverse client data into EY's proprietary audit analytic software (Helix suite) using Excel and SQL, enabling critical financial analysis.

Developed proficiency in data manipulation and query optimization techniques, contributing to streamlined data preparation workflows.

Projects

Community Health Worker (CHW) AI Assistant

Summary

Built an open-source, offline-first Flutter mobile app that allows Community Health Workers to record and analyze patient interactions using AI.

Intron Voice Dart SDK

Summary

A Dart & Flutter SDK for intron.io speech-to-text API, enabling developers to seamlessly integrate real-time speech recognition into mobile and web applications.

Financial Data MCP Server

Summary

Developed a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to enable AI assistants to securely access Mono's open banking APIs for financial data retrieval, ensuring secure and validated data exchange.

Skills

Programming & Backend

Typescript, Dart, Node.js, Express.js, Nest.js.

Databases

MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis.

AI & ML

LLMs, RAG, Agents, MCP, Mastra, LangChain, Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering.

Frontend

Flutter, React.js, Next.js.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.

Systems & Architecture

Distributed Systems, Microservices Architecture, Event-Driven Design.

Tools

Git, NGINX, Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets, Figma.

Design

User Research, Usability Testing, User Interface Design.

Education

University of Lagos

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Bachelor of Science Pharmacology Grade:

Certificates

Product Led Growth Certification

Product School

Product Analytics Certification

Product School