Attend

01

Overview

As the Founding Engineer of Attend and Lead Mobile Developer @ GDGoC FUNAAB, I'm leading the end-to-end development of an attendance platform built to serve 23,000+ students and engineered to handle thousands of real-time verifications daily without downtime.

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The Problems I Identified

• Students queue for up to 10 mins to mark attendance.
• Lecturers spend up to 20 mins of a 2-hour lecture doing headcounts and comparing with the paper list.
• Students frequently miss attendance due to lost sheets, late circulation, or chaotic large classes.
• Signing for absent colleagues makes paper records untrustworthy.
• Manual collation frustrates lecturers and produces incomplete or inaccurate results when scoring students on class attendance.

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The Solution I'm Leading a Team to Build

• From day one, I designed the API architecture for high concurrency, horizontal scalability, and data integrity as adoption grows.
• Students will no longer need to queue. Each student will be able to mark attendance from the comfort of their seat.
• Lecturers will no longer need to do manual headcounts.
• Building the system to prevent fraud, ensuring attendance integrity for lecturers.
• Collation of continuous assessment scores will be automated and accurate.

04

Expected Outcome

• University-wide adoption and operational readiness for semester rollout.
• Up to 24,560 minutes restored per semester.
• Proof that I have experience designing systems for thousands of users while maintaining security, reliability, and integrity.

05

Future

• Extends to other universities in Nigeria, hence improving the country's educational standards to better match UK and Western systems.
• This becomes a legacy project that future members of GDGoC can contribute to, boosting their experience, technical capacity, and credibility.