Mayowa Kalejaiye

Founded, built, and operate GigScout end to end as a solo founder: product design, engineering, launch, and user support. Launched the SaaS to paying customers with a first sale on launch day, now running a freemium subscription model with 37 users and a 6% free-to-paid conversion rate. Designed the unit economics from the outset, holding all-time AI spend to $0.31 for 749+ scored matches by routi

Sole engineer responsible for client-side platform architecture, performance and user experience, delivering complex interfaces over backend APIs with real-time content delivery. Made and defended architecture decisions as the technical owner, balancing build speed against long-term maintainability. Strengthened my ability to evaluate a design critically before committing to it — a discipline I la

Built and maintained core backend services for an AI platform using a service-repository architecture; handling routing, middleware, data models, and storage layers.

Contributed beyond my AI intern role by owning significant backend infrastructure, including API design, folder lifecycle management, and multi-tenant data isolation.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, pytest

Led backend engineering for an educational content platform through 5 sprint cycles, shipped a Django REST API handling course curation and personalized content delivery. Managed team workflows, PR standards, and modular architecture decisions.

•Completed early-stage backend tasks with strict time constraints and review-based feedback
•Solved API-focused problems using FastAPI, practicing modularity and route management
•Used Git for collaboration, managed pull requests, and worked within issue-tracking systems

Extended backend features for health reporting and resource-coordination tools, designing RESTful APIs for data collection and cross-system integration within an international cross-functional team. Worked in agile cycles, collaborating across time zones on production health-sector tooling. Developed the discipline of writing reliable data-handling code where correctness matters, since errors here

Worked on a data-focused backend for a niche e-commerce platform.
•Refactored data models for product inventory and customer orders
•Optimized PostgreSQL queries to reduce load time on critical endpoints
•Integrated custom filters and advanced sorting for product listings
•Ensured proper relational structure between customer, cart, and order models

•Trained in Python, SQLite, advanced JavaScript, Git, and React
•Built full-stack mini projects and practiced real-world debugging
•Completed weekly project reviews and assessments

Mar 2025