Shola Jegede

Developer Relations Engineer

Developer Relations Engineer at Kinde and one of 33 Developer Champions at Convex. I engineer open-source infrastructure for AI, authentication, billing, and web data, then document it in long-form articles published on freeCodeCamp, Dev.to, and Hashnode, so the engineers reading them can run the same systems in production.

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30,876npm downloads across six published packages
5components published into the Convex directory
54articles on Dev.to, followed by 3,945 developers
98builders hosted at v0 IRL Lagos

Work

Kinde

Developer Relations Engineer
Jun 2025 — PresentRemote
  • Own the developer narrative for the billing launch, from the reference architecture through to publication: fifteen long-form technical articles and a live AI SaaS application that passed 18,000 views against a 15,000 target
  • Built the Kinde Agent Kit, a four-part Convex component suite that gives AI agents identity, billing, memory, and tool access inside multi-tenant applications
  • Wrote the official Kinde integration for Mastra, connecting Kinde authentication to an emerging AI agent framework
  • Maintain the open-source packages the writing depends on, covering auth event sync, reactive billing in Convex, web data caching, and cascading deletes
  • The launch distribution produced more than twenty direct conversations with founders and engineers evaluating Kinde

Convex

Developer Champion
Mar 2025 — PresentRemote
  • Invited to apply by Convex's Head of Community after reading my production engineering and community work. Convex lists 33 Champions worldwide
  • Five components published into the official Convex Components Directory in March 2026, with 30,876 downloads across all published packages
  • Worked with the AI engineering team at Bright Data on their live market research terminal, writing the technical deep dive and building Convex components around the underlying system. The article is the only entry in the repository's Resources section and is cited on the Bright Data blog

Vercel

Founding Host, v0 IRL Lagos
Jan 2026 — Feb 2026Lagos, Nigeria
  • Selected as one of 52 founding hosts worldwide for v0 IRL, Vercel's global community programme
  • Designed and delivered a Prompt-to-Production workshop on 7 February 2026: 114 registrations, 98 attendees, and 16 products shipped live
  • Sustain the community that formed there, now more than 60 builders, through follow-up sessions and peer knowledge sharing

freeCodeCamp, DEV, and Hashnode

Technical Author
2024 — PresentRemote
  • Accepted through freeCodeCamp's editorial process and publishing on AI agents, authentication, developer infrastructure, and AI-native SaaS to a platform audience of 4.3 million monthly readers
  • 54 articles published on DEV with 3,945 followers, alongside work on freeCodeCamp and Hashnode

Selected Projects

convex-cascading-deletes
Cascading deletes for Convex, approved into the official Convex Components Directory. The most widely adopted package I maintain, at 22,975 downloads
mcp-starter-kit
Universal MCP server starter with authentication, database, and billing built in. 4,542 downloads since October 2025
Kinde Agent Kit
Four-part open-source Convex component suite for AI agent identity, billing, memory, and tool access across multi-tenant applications
mastra-vs-langchain
Public benchmark that runs the same AI agent pipeline in Mastra and LangChain, with instrumented data, G-Eval scoring, and a bias fix. Analysed in a freeCodeCamp deep dive
mastra-auth-kinde
Kinde authentication provider for the Mastra AI agent framework. Supports user and machine-to-machine tokens and verifies them with jose, so it runs on Cloudflare Workers without nodejs_compat
openloops
Local-first Chrome extension that clusters browsing history into intent threads, then grounds Claude's labels in real company data resolved through the Context.dev API

Builds

GitHubsholajegede
npm~sholajegede

Open Source

Six published npm packages with 30,876 downloads. Five of them are published in the official Convex Components Directory.

Writing

freeCodeCampEditorially reviewed long-form work for 4.3 million monthly readers, covering MCP servers, AI agent benchmarks, and a full ChatGPT Apps SDK handbookdev.to54 articles on auth, billing, AI, and data infrastructure, followed by 3,945 developersHashnodeField notes on developer relations, tooling decisions, and what shipping teaches me

Recognition

Education

Federal University of Technology Akure2015 — 2020
B.Sc. Building Construction