Calgary, Canada · mayowa.ca
What brings you here?
About Mayo
I graduated at 25 and went straight into oil and gas at CNRL, working FIFO shifts in Fort McMurray while building blockchain platforms on the side. Eventually left for crypto full-time, won pitch competitions in Ottawa and Las Vegas, and kept playing music in five different contexts simultaneously. I'm 28 now with a mortgage, living in the messy middle, but the vision is intact and I'm still building.
Most people call me Mayo because it's easier than Mayowa. I'm Nigerian-Canadian, grew up between the Netherlands and Canada, and went to three different universities before finding my way. I cooked professionally from 14 to 24, then ended up negotiating $20M+ in contracts at one of Canada's biggest mining operations while building five platforms on night shifts. The work has always happened in parallel, never sequentially.
Design, data, and decentralization are three sides of the same coin for me. The SQL tool I built that nobody asked for ended up saving 4,000 hours a year. The blockchain protocol started from a color I saw at 30,000 feet. The afro fusion band is named Nigeria spelled backwards. It's all connected, and it's all the same creative process applied to different problems.
Won in Ottawa. Won in Las Vegas. Booked at UBC for the same slot Solana paid $25K for — from a cold email.
Blockchain & AI
Client Work
Full builds across fashion, accounting, energy, and community. Strategy, design, development, SEO — end to end.
The Music
Thelonious Monk. 1954. One of the most original thinkers in jazz history named his composition by spelling Nigeria backwards — the diaspora coded into the music, hidden in plain sight for those who know. That's the band.
AIREGIN is afro fusion. Afrobeats, afrojazz, afrohouse — somewhere right in there, a little alternative and weird, but super groovy. The kind of music where people dance for hours without realizing it. Mayowa as composer and producer. The sound he hears.
Nigeria spelled backwards. Mayowa shortened to Mayo. Identity coded in — present for those who look closely enough.
All The Rooms
15 years of production. Sound technician. Worship leader. Bandleader. Collaborator. Music has never been a side project — it runs at full capacity, in parallel, always.
Let's Go
I respond fast. I shoot straight. I'll tell you if I'm the right fit or not. That's the whole approach.