Jefferson Ighalo

Founded and scaled a venture studio shipping 30+ AI and blockchain products across Solana, EVM, and BNB Chain, reaching $1.1M portfolio value. Designed the agent runtime powering autonomous products, including tool-calling loops, risk/guardrail pipelines, and LLM-as-judge evaluation.

Founded and leads a 900+ member community moving experienced African engineers from Web2 into Web3, with learning paths from Solidity to growth engineering. Secured Findora Foundation funding.

Provided DevRel strategy and engineering consulting for XRPL and Somnia Network, building developer-adoption frameworks. Built and shipped PolyForge, a CLI for Polygon development workflows, and authored technical deep-dives and tutorials.

Built the DevRel function from zero, hiring a team and driving 300% growth in community joins and 175% growth in developer sign-ups. Hand-wrote v1 of API documentation and shipped demo apps in Next.js, Solidity, and Hardhat.

Led a 20-person cross-functional effort to revamp APIs, documentation, and developer onboarding for the payments platform. Cut developer-support tickets ~47% by building partner-specific support rooms and a solutions databank in Discord.

Led the redesign of the Matic to Polygon developer docs and set the site-wide writing style. Wrote documentation for Polygon's ZK and scaling products including Nightfall, Hermez, PoS, Plasma, and FxPortal.

Led frontend on Remita Inline, a checkout and payments product used across Nigeria and Ghana. Built internal ERP tools in React, Gatsby, and Angular, and started the company's developer-relations function.

Completed the Full-Stack Web Development Certification from freeCodeCamp, covering web development fundamentals.

Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Diplomacy from the University of Benin, completed in 2015.