I'm Joan Urevbu — a Nigerian technologist and writer working between Benin City and Porto Alegre. I design school-management and parent-communication tools that take the friction out of how institutions talk to the families they serve.
My work sits at the seam between education and software — the unglamorous, high-stakes plumbing that decides whether a parent gets the message, whether a register is accurate, whether a school day starts on time.
Over the past several years I've built and run tools that schools actually use every day: timetabling and teaching-assignment systems, gate and pickup logistics, and messaging pipelines that reach thousands of parents reliably and affordably. I care about the boring details because that's where trust is won or lost.
Alongside the building, I write — about technology in African classrooms, about building for low-bandwidth realities, and about the long, patient work of making institutions a little more humane.
School management for Nigerian schools: attendance, report cards, fees, and parent updates over WhatsApp and SMS — built for places where data is expensive and connectivity is intermittent.
School Guardian 360 & its founder →Timetable-first teacher staffing and protected payouts for Nigerian schools, making substitute coverage and teacher coordination easier to manage.
Explore TeachConnect →Short and long-form writing on building technology for African education, low-bandwidth design, and institutional trust.
Read Joan Urevbu's essays →Good software for schools is invisible. Nobody thanks the system that simply worked — and that's exactly the point.