Meet Virginus Alajekwu, the Nigerian Software Engineer Behind Afobata’s Quiet Rise

By Benson Michael

In a landscape where software success stories are often loud and investor-driven, Virginus Alajekwu Chinagbaogu stands out as a silent powerhouse. Founder and CEO of Afobata, Virginus has quietly built one of the most technically ambitious platforms to come out of Nigeria, a single, unified system powering multi-tenant, multi-service, B2B/B2C, Global and cross-platform businesses, all from one codebase.

Making the Impossible Possible
What many engineers saw as impractical or impossible, Virginus made real. Under the Afobata project, he designed a solution where users, particularly entrepreneurs, agencies, and SMEs, can effortlessly switch between over 20 different business solutions (and counting) without ever leaving a single domain or platform. This includes everything from logistics, utility bills payment solutions, crypto currency services, real estate, blogs and fintech services to marketplaces, appointment booking tools, learning platforms, e-commerce, and more to come.
The most remarkable part? All of it is built and maintained using one codebase, deployed across multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop), a technical accomplishment that has left other Engineers and founders in awe.

Powering Businesses, Silently
Afobata’s model empowers non-technical founders and companies to own and operate multiple tech-enabled businesses without writing a single line of code. Virginus designed Afobata to be the invisible but powerful layer underneath: handling the engineering, infrastructure, deployments, scalability, updates, and compliance, so clients can focus entirely on their business growth.

Gone are the days of maintaining multiple codebases or hiring separate teams for Android, iOS, and Web. Afobata is living proof that a unified system, if engineered correctly, can deliver robustness, flexibility, and scale across verticals without compromising performance or maintainability.

From Early Genius to Industry Pillar
Virginus began programming at the age of 13, motivated by a deep curiosity and love for solving problems with code. Over the past decade, he has built over 20 applications and systems, many of which remain in active use today across Nigeria and beyond.
Virginus completed his primary and secondary education before pursuing his Computer Science degree at Imo State University. His journey into tech was significantly influenced by an unexpected catalyst: his parents providing him with a computer before age 10, combined with a government initiative that provided computers to his school, sparking his first encounter with technology and setting him on the path that would define his career.

The Millionaire Teenager
What sets Virginus apart is not just his technical expertise, but his early entrepreneurial success. Founder of Afobata, Mr Virginus Alajekwu Chinagbaogu, popularly known as Don Solace, has shared how he made his first one million (in naira) as a teenager. This early financial success wasn’t just about money; it was validation that his technical skills could translate into real-world impact and sustainable business models.
Despite his growing impact, Virginus has maintained a remarkably low public profile. His decision to remain behind the scenes wasn’t due to a lack of ambition, it was intentional. His focus has always been on the work itself: building better systems, pushing boundaries, and creating sustainable tools for African businesses. Now, however, the world is beginning to take notice.

The Afobata Revolution
Virginus Alajekwu is a Nigerian entrepreneur and software Engineer with a Computer Science background from Imo State University. He’s the driving force behind Afobata, a leading software development company established in 2019.

Afobata serves as a multi-purpose SaaS developed as a marketplace for diverse products and services, built with JavaScript, implementing secure payment processing and user authentication. But this description only scratches the surface of what Afobata has become under Virginus’s leadership. The platform has evolved far beyond a simple e-commerce site to become a comprehensive business infrastructure solution.

Technical Excellence and Leadership
As Chief Technology Officer at Afobata since 2019, Virginus brings over 10+ years of IT experience as a Mobile & Full Stack Software Engineer. His technical expertise spans multiple domains, and he’s particularly known for his contributions in mobile development, SEO, cybersecurity, and web scraping.

He is known for his creative business ideas, marketing strategies, advertising, and business development skills. This combination of technical depth and business acumen has been crucial to Afobata’s success in serving multiple market segments.

Respected by Engineers, Trusted by Businesses
Virginus is widely regarded as one of the most respected software engineers in Nigeria. His work has inspired a generation of junior developers and tech entrepreneurs, not just for its brilliance, but for its clarity, discipline, and real-world utility.
• He has proven that scalable, multi-vertical, cross-platform architecture can be done elegantly.
• He has contributed tools and libraries that help other developers speed up development without reinventing the wheel.
• His systems have been adopted at speed by businesses that needed reliable, customizable, and future-proof solutions.
Afobata is now quietly powering business infrastructure across sectors, often without public attribution, as part of its white-label, partner-first approach.

Building for Africa’s Future
Virginus Alajekwu’s research-oriented approach has been fundamental to Afobata’s success. Rather than simply copying Western business models, Virginus has studied the unique challenges facing African entrepreneurs and built solutions specifically designed for local market conditions while maintaining global scalability.

Virginus is actively expanding Afobata’s platform to support even more sectors, while gradually opening up API access for integrators, developers, and no-code platforms. He sees a future where any African founder, technical or not, can launch, iterate, and scale a digital business without depending on multiple disjointed tools.

“Technology should simplify growth, not complicate it,” he says. “We’ve spent the last 5 years building the infrastructure so that others can just plug in and run.”

As Afobata continues to grow quietly but steadily, Virginus Alajekwu represents a new generation of African tech leaders, those who build first, talk later, and let their work speak for itself. In an ecosystem often dominated by funding announcements and flashy launches, his approach offers a refreshing reminder that sometimes the most revolutionary changes happen behind the scenes, one line of code at a time.