Shola Jegede

Developer advocate and content engineer who writes for engineers. Developer Advocate at Kinde and 1 of 33 Developer Champions at Convex. Open-source npm packages built for the Convex ecosystem — auth sync, billing, data caching, cascading deletes. 50+ articles written across freeCodeCamp, dev.to, and Hashnode, read by thousands of developers.

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Work

Kinde

Developer Advocate
Jun 2025 — PresentRemote
  • Owned the launch narrative for the Kinde billing release end to end, deciding what story it told and shipping 15 long-form posts plus a live AI SaaS reference app to 18.6K views against a 15K target
  • Engineered four open-source npm packages for the Convex ecosystem covering auth sync, billing, data caching, and cascading deletes, accumulating thousands of weekly downloads
  • Architecting the Kinde Agent Kit, a four-part Convex component suite giving AI agents identity, billing, memory, and tool access across multi-tenant applications
  • Drove inbound developer interest through the sprint, converting community distribution into 20+ direct follow-up conversations from founders and engineers evaluating Kinde

Convex

Developer Champion
Mar 2025 — PresentRemote
  • Invited as a Convex Developer Champion by the Convex Head of Community, on the strength of production engineering and community output
  • Collaborated with the AI engineering team at Bright Data on a technical piece for their live market research terminal, contributing the writing and building the Convex components that wrap Bright Data; the article was selected as the sole resource in their official repository README
  • Shipped two Bright Data components to the official Convex Components Directory, carrying thousands of weekly downloads

Vercel

Founding Host, v0 IRL Lagos
Jan 2026 — Feb 2026Lagos, Nigeria
  • Selected by Vercel as one of 52 global founding hosts for the simultaneous v0 IRL worldwide programme
  • Designed and delivered a Prompt-to-Production workshop drawing 115 registrations, 16+ products shipped live on the day, and a 5.0/5.0 rating
  • Sustained a post-event community of 65+ builders through 1:1 sessions and ongoing peer knowledge-sharing

Selected Projects

mastra-vs-langchain
Public benchmark running the same AI agent pipeline in Mastra and LangChain side by side, with real instrumented data, G-Eval scoring, and a bias fix; paired with a freeCodeCamp deep dive
supportmesh
Multi-tenant AI support platform with org-isolated agent memory on Mastra, Convex, and Kinde; the production system behind the Mastra vs LangChain benchmark
Kinde Agent Kit
Four-part open-source Convex component suite for AI agent identity, billing, memory, and tool access across multi-tenant applications
mastra-auth-kinde
Kinde authentication provider for the Mastra AI agent framework. Supports user and M2M tokens, edge-native via jose — no nodejs_compat required on Cloudflare Workers
openloops
Local-first Chrome extension that clusters browsing history into intent threads with agglomerative clustering, then grounds Claude's labels in real company data resolved through the Context.dev API

Builds

GitHubsholajegede
npm~sholajegede

Writing

dev.to40+ articles on auth, billing, AI, and data infrastructurefreeCodeCampLong-form tutorials on MCP, agents, and the ChatGPT Apps SDKHashnodeField notes and deep dives on developer relations and shipping

Recognition

Education

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