Nasser Sanou

I was born in Burkina Faso and I build in New York. The distance between those two facts is most of what I work on.

I trained as an artist before I trained as an engineer: a fine arts degree from CNAA in Ouagadougou in 2001, then Flatiron School and General Assembly in New York almost twenty years later. I mention that order because it explains how I work. I design the whole system on paper before I write anything, and I care about how it looks when it is finished.

What I build now is LLM application architecture and cross-platform mobile software. On the AI side that means stateful agent systems: graph orchestration where the model reasons, calls tools, evaluates the result, and re-plans, rather than running a single-shot chain. It means a provider-agnostic gateway that routes between Anthropic and Google instead of coupling either one as the other's tool, because vendor lock-in is a decision you make once and pay for later.

On the mobile side it means designing for conditions most software ignores. The markets I build for have roughly 85% mobile penetration against 19.9% internet penetration. Offline is not an edge case there, it is the default state. Card payments barely exist, so mobile money rails are the payment layer. Literacy rates mean a text-first interface excludes the people the product is for, which is why Faso Kuma is voice-first by architecture rather than by preference.

I speak Mooré and Dioula natively, and French and English fluently, and I build and test interfaces in all four, including for languages with almost no existing digital tooling. That is not a line on a résumé. It is the reason I can specify a translation corpus where community submissions are promoted to confirmed only after three independent validations, and know why that threshold matters.

I also make music. I have performed as Baba G, and the discipline transfers more than you would expect: you finish the take, you ship the record, and the audience tells you what you got wrong.