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EdafeMaxwellsenior frontend engineer · founder

Shipping scalable, low-latency interfaces since 2018. Now running two products solo as founder and engineer: Kweve, an AI revenue chief of staff, and Knoledg, an AI study platform. Previously Lead Frontend at Prestmit.

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A senior engineer’s notebook.

I build interfaces for people who don't notice them, until they do. Shipping since 2018. Currently running two products solo as founder and engineer: Kweve, an AI revenue chief of staff, and Knoledg, an AI study platform. Frontend, backend, infrastructure, payments. All mine.

Before founding either, I led frontend at Prestmit, rebuilding a gift-card, crypto, and bill-payment platform used across Africa. My work lives at the intersection of performance, accessibility, and taste: pixel-perfect implementations, WCAG compliance as a baseline rather than a bolt-on, and features that survive contact with production traffic.

I recently completed an MSc in Cybersecurity at Manchester Metropolitan University and published IEEE research on real-time email phishing detection using a custom DistilBERT model. Between builds, I mentor junior engineers and contribute to React Native mobile surfaces.

Based
Manchester, UK
Since
2018
Stack
Next · React · FastAPI
Building
Kweve · Knoledg

Five roles, one through-line.

Now

Kweve

Founder · Full-Stack Engineer

Building Kweve, an AI Revenue Chief of Staff: an autonomous multi-agent platform that gives SMB founders a full revenue team through one conversation. A supervisor agent (Noble) delegates to specialist agents across Gmail, Calendar, LinkedIn, CRM, and support.

  • Architected a LangGraph coordinator/specialist system: a 17-tool supervisor delegates to seven ReAct specialists with domain-specific tools for Gmail, Calendar, LinkedIn publishing, web search, analytics, CRM, and support triage.
  • Built execution infrastructure: Celery + Redis background tasks, Celery Beat recurring workflows with per-workflow rate limiting, scheduled actions unified across email, calendar, and LinkedIn, and proactive email and calendar monitoring.
  • Hardened for production: Sentry (backend and frontend), security-headers middleware, slowapi rate limits, JWT with Redis token blacklist, approval policies with inline chat approval, content safety, action audit log, and credit accounting.
  • Next.js 15
  • FastAPI
  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Celery
  • Pinecone
  • Cloudflare R2
  • LLMs
Now

Knoledg

Founder · Full-Stack Engineer

Building Knoledg from scratch: an AI study platform that turns students’ PDFs, images, and docs into summaries, quizzes, flashcards, and a tutor grounded in their own materials. Shipping the whole stack solo: frontend, backend, infra, and payments.

  • Designed and built the full stack end-to-end: Next.js 16 / React 19 frontend, FastAPI + PostgreSQL backend, Cloudflare edge, and LLM-powered AI tutor.
  • Shipped a tiered freemium system with multi-currency pricing (GBP / USD / NGN) and dual payment providers: Stripe for global and Paystack for African markets, with auto-renewal, immediate-cancel refunds, and failed-payment retries.
  • Built an admin suite with real-time analytics, user and subscription management, a quarterly referral-and-rewards engine, and a drag-and-drop email broadcast builder.
  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLAlchemy
  • LLMs
  • Stripe
  • Paystack
  • Cloudflare

Prestmit

Lead Frontend Engineer

Led the V2 rebuild of Prestmit’s platform: gift-card trading, crypto, bill payments, and KYC. Mentored juniors and shaped CI/CD, TypeScript, and PWA practice across the team.

  • Spearheaded V2 architecture from scratch: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Redux.
  • Designed and shipped KYC verification and security hardening across the platform.
  • Contributed to the React Native + Expo mobile app, unblocking the mobile team on gift-card and crypto flows.
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • SASS
  • Redux
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • PWA

Spring Rock Group

Lead Frontend Engineer

Led front-end on e-commerce and logistics platforms. Built reusable component systems, shipped real-time features, and raised team standards through code review and unit testing.

  • Led a team of frontend developers building React + Next.js + Tailwind e-commerce and logistics platforms.
  • Implemented WebSocket for real-time merchant-customer communication.
  • Maintained CI/CD with a strict focus on performance, security, and reliability.
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • WebSocket
  • CI/CD
  • Vue.js
  • Nuxt.js

Mintyn Online Banking

Senior Frontend Engineer · Contract

Built buy-now-pay-later and split-payment flows for Mintyn’s online banking platform. Accessibility-first, with Cypress E2E coverage on the critical money paths.

  • Shipped buy-now-pay-later and split-payment features end-to-end with SASS, React, and TypeScript.
  • Applied WCAG standards to all banking interfaces: keyboard navigation, ARIA roles, and contrast.
  • Built Cypress E2E suites around the transaction flows.
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • SASS
  • CSS3
  • Cypress
  • REST
  • WCAG/ARIA

My Event Pod

Senior Frontend Developer · Contract

Shipped event creation, booking, and dashboard features. Optimised for SEO and scale using Next.js and Tailwind.

  • Built event creation, booking, and dashboard flows with Next.js + Tailwind.
  • Implemented React-hooks form validation patterns reused across the platform.
  • Optimised the platform for SEO and scalability.
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • HTML5

Kusnap

Frontend Developer

Migrated the storefront to Next.js for SEO and performance. Built merchant and customer-account features with a strong tooling + CI/CD foundation.

  • Migrated the front end to Next.js for measurable SEO and performance gains.
  • Built customer-account, order, and merchant-storefront features with React + Redux + Formik.
  • Introduced Husky, ESLint, and Git-based CI for code quality and reliable deploys.
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Redux
  • Formik
  • Bootstrap
  • Husky
  • ESLint

Four that I’ll stand behind.

What lives in the toolbox.

Languages & Frameworks

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • Python
  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Redux
  • Zustand
  • TanStack Query
  • FastAPI
  • SQLAlchemy
  • Pydantic
  • GraphQL
  • REST
  • LLMs

Platforms & Cloud

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Vercel
  • Netlify
  • Cloudflare
  • Docker
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • Stripe
  • Paystack
  • Resend
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • PWA
  • WebSocket

Practice

  • Accessibility (WCAG · ARIA)
  • Tailwind
  • SASS
  • CSS3
  • HTML5
  • Styled Components
  • TipTap
  • Recharts
  • Storybook
  • Figma
  • JWT · RBAC · 2FA
  • Cypress
  • Jest
  • Agile · Scrum

Where the foundation was laid.

  • MSc Cybersecurity

    Manchester Metropolitan University

  • BSc Computer Science

    University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Peer-reviewed work.

ISNCC 2024Washington DC, USA

Real-Time Email Phishing Detection Using a Custom DistilBERT Model

Edafe M. Damatie, Amna Eleyan, Tarek Bejaoui

First author · Oral presentation

A custom DistilBERT architecture with dynamic threshold adjustment and an enhanced classifier head, optimised for email content. Integrates with Gmail via OAuth 2.0 for live monitoring and adds a daily retraining mechanism that adapts to evolving phishing tactics.

Key findings
  • 99.29% accuracy · 0.69% false-positive rate (controlled, 82,486-email dataset).
  • 95.45% accuracy · 1.88s average response time (real-world Gmail integration).
  • Outperforms state-of-the-art baselines including RNN-GRU (99.18%) and PhishKiller (98.30%).
  • DistilBERT
  • Transformer models
  • Real-time detection
  • Adaptive retraining
  • Cybersecurity
VenueIEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications. Hosted at University of the District of Columbia. IEEE · IEEE Communications Society.

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