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Maxwell Wachira

@maxwellwachira

Technical Lead at Overten AI who took its AI workspace from idea to launch in five months, now serving 10,000+ active users.

Kenya

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At Overten AI, I took the product from idea to launch in five months; it’s now post-revenue with 10,000+ active users. I lead three engineers and own the Next.js, React, and TypeScript frontend across docs, sheets, slides, and PDF workflows.

At 1SimplePhone, I led a five-person team building LCNX Connect for more than 1,000 Starlink customers, including a caching strategy that cut cached account loading from 5–6 seconds to under one. I also built TwinOver, a video-first community app live on iOS, Android, and Huawei AppGallery.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Co-Founder & CTO

Current

Overten AI

Jan 2026 - Present (9 months)

Co-founded and led Overten AI from idea to launch in 5 months, now post-revenue with 10,000+ active users. Architected the Next.js/React/TypeScript frontend and led a team of 3 engineers.

Next.js React TypeScript React Server Components WebSockets Jest React Testing Library Playwright

Engineering Lead, LCNX Connect

1SimplePhone

Jan 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 11 months)

Led a 5-person engineering team building LCNX Connect, a platform managing 1,000+ Starlink customers. Architected the Next.js/React frontend and multi-tenant Node.js/PostgreSQL backend.

Next.js React Mantine Tanstack Query NodeJS Express TypeScript PostgreSQL Starlink Integration

Lead Engineer

TwinOver

Sep 2024 - Nov 2025 (1 year 2 months)

Built TwinOver, a video-first social app in React Native (Expo), live on iOS, Android, and Huawei AppGallery. Designed a 40-category interest taxonomy and implemented chat with optimistic sends and local-first caching.

React Native Expo WatermelonDB Firebase Cloud Functions Video Calling Deep Linking

Founding Engineer

Scanwize

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Built the React Native companion app for an automotive diagnostic device, streaming real-time vehicle diagnostics. Developed the Node.js/PostgreSQL device-management backend.

React Native NodeJS PostgreSQL Device Management