Welcome to The Human Stack — a newsletter about the people beneath the platforms, the clarity behind the code, and the resilience inside the builders.

I’m Jephtah, a software engineer, technical leader, and founder who’s spent the last decade building systems and scaling teams across Africa and Europe. I’ve co-founded companies, debugged architecture under pressure, led teams through chaos, and walked away from things I helped build. I’ve seen what works and what quietly breaks people.

This isn’t a place for hype or hero stories. It’s a space for honest reflections on:

• Engineering under pressure

• Leading without losing yourself

• Building companies without burning out

• Mistakes that changed everything

• Systems thinking with emotional depth

Here, you’ll find essays that blend real-world engineering with the realer-world of being human while building. Think: founder letter meets staff engineer, clarity meets creative catharsis.

If you’re an engineer, a builder, a founder, or someone figuring out what leadership looks like in this noisy world, this is for you.

Subscribe to read stories, lessons, and letters from the trenches, and maybe walk away feeling a little more seen, a little more centered, and a little more ready to build something that lasts.

Let’s go beneath the stack.