Findr — National Missing Persons Data Infrastructure

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Co-founded and built the backend system for Nigeria’s first verified, national missing-persons registry. Built as the flagship public-good deployment under Open Prairie, Findr replaces fragmented physical posters and unverified social media noise with a unified, programmatic data engine spanning all 36 states.

System Capabilities

  • Verified National Registry: Implements a strict ingestion pipeline requiring verified police extract numbers and official diary entries before case publication to eliminate false reporting and maintain dataset integrity.
  • Standards-Compliant Emergency Alert Feed: Exposes a machine-readable OASIS CAP v1.2 emergency alert feed (Atom 1.0 compliant, verified by W3C)—the global standard utilized by international emergency management agencies like FEMA.
  • Targeted Broadcast Pipelines: Integrates automated, state-level SMS and email distribution channels via Termii and Resend to dispatch geo-targeted alerts immediately upon case verification.
  • Law Enforcement & Public Tip Routing: Structured channels for anonymous and named public tip submissions, routing telemetry directly into active case files and verified law enforcement endpoints.
  • Developer API: Open REST interface enabling media organizations, third-party applications, and emergency services to surface live missing-persons data without scraping or manual aggregation.

Engineering Architecture

  • High-Availability Backend: Built on Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL, optimized for low-latency lookups across national spatial boundaries.
  • Decentralized Broadcast Research: Currently prototyping a censorship-resistant Nostr protocol integration to ensure critical public alert feeds remain online independent of single-point carrier or platform availability.
  • Data Pipelines & Ingestion: Automated validation and normalization workflows that convert raw case submissions into structured, type-safe API records.
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