Daniel Olaide

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

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LagosMember since October 3, 2026

TypeScriptRustPHPC#Node.jsExpressLaravelRESTGraphQLReactReact NativecTraderCode Review

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Full-stack engineer with 7+ years of experience building production applications across web, mobile, desktop, and backend services. Proficient in TypeScript, Go, Rust, and PHP, with a track record of shipping bots, APIs, browser extensions, and cross-platform desktop apps that real users depend on. Comfortable owning an entire product surface; from database design and REST/GraphQL APIs to polished React frontends and React Native mobile apps.

Known for picking up new stacks quickly and delivering clean, maintainable code under tight timelines.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Freelance (2025 – Present)

Leads smart contract development and security audits for the Lemon Markets trading platform.
Building Praxus Wallet — a non-custodial crypto wallet with a clean, consumer-friendly interface built in React Native.
Developed Medalion Bot, a production algorithmic trading bot with configurable strategies, real-time price feeds, and automated order execution.
Contributed to nygyn.rs, an open-source Rust web framework, improving routing and middleware ergonomics.
Contributed in building a reward system project on solana that rewards users with 3 token for holding one token.
Live-coding regularly on X/Twitter, building in public and sharing real engineering problem-solving with a growing developer audience.

Web3 Senior software engineer at Freelance (2024-01 – 2024-12)

Built Gojo Bot - a WhatsApp chatbot integrated with on-chain execution, featuring a conversational command interface, real-time confirmations, and error handling for failed transactions.
Created Gravy Stack, an open-source TypeScript framework that cuts Telegram bot boilerplate for Node.js developers; used by multiple projects shortly after release.
Developed DBot, a full-featured trading and bridging bot with a multi-step user flow, wallet management, and transaction status tracking.
Built Sliver, a Chrome browser extension that injects a trading widget into DexScreener pages built with TypeScript and communicates with a lightweight Express backend.
Consulted on product architecture and front-end implementation for the Third Internet team, contributing to their Onchain Summer Base Hackathon win.

Web3 Developer at ASTRAVA (2023-02)

Delivered full-stack Web3 integration for ASTRAVA — a content-creation mobile app — covering wallet authentication, token gating, and on-chain state management.
Worked closely with the product and mobile teams to ensure smooth UX across the Web3 flows; project raised over $100K from investors.

Web3 Developer at Solimax (2023 – 2023)

Designed the full product architecture including backend APIs, a governance DAO interface, and smart contract integrations.
Built the Blue v1 NFT game frontend and backend, integrating smart contract events via The Graph for real-time game state.
Developed a cross-chain bridge UI that guided users through a multi-step migration flow with live transaction tracking.
Work helped the project raise over $120K and the governance token reach a $1M+ market cap.

Smart Contract Developer at Solak-gpt (2023 – 2023)

Built the NFT marketplace API using Node.js/Express, handling listings, bidding logic, and transaction history.
Indexed marketplace events using The Graph subgraph, enabling fast queries for the React frontend.
Integrated ethers.js across the stack for wallet connections, contract reads, and write transactions.

Smart Contract Developer at Zetachain (2023 – 2023)

Helped with writing the smart-deployer smart contract to testnet which generated over 12000 transactions.

Consultant & Independent Builder at Freelance (2023 – 2023)

Audited and debugged application code and backend logic for Mintyplex, DynastyPad, Blockroll, Traddify, and Anargon.
Contributed to DYNEX — built a tool that lets projects train AI models on distributed GPU resources; involved Go services and a React dashboard.
Built a decentralised student voting system with a React frontend and a Node.js backend, used for a real university election.
Developed OnchainLinks, a TypeScript browser extension that surfaces on-chain data and actions directly inside X/Twitter.
Built CoinForge, a cross-platform desktop application using Tauri (Rust backend + React frontend) that helps project owners manage token launches securely.
Created an Eliza-based AI Twitter agent and experimented with multi-agent orchestration systems on Telegram.
Grew Kratos DAO, a developer community, to over 200 active members through regular technical content and workshops.

Smart Contract Developer at HealthGo (2022 – 2022)

Built the user payment system in Rust on the NEAR blockchain; helped HealthGo secure $50K+ in grants.

Team Lead at Artreus (2022 – 2022)

Led a small team building a cross-chain NFT marketplace in Rust and Solidity that secured over $20K in grant funding.

Team Lead at TradeSpace (2022 – 2022)

Managed delivery across mobile (React Native), backend (Node.js), and smart contract tracks.
Coordinated sprint planning, code reviews, and external stakeholder updates.

Web3 Frontend Developer at Genrousli (2022)

Built React-based frontends with wallet integration for the Genrousli platform.

Team Lead and Smart Contract Developer at Tete (2022 – 2022)

Web3 Full-stack Developer at Freelance (2022 – 2022)

Participated in harmony web3 Naija hackathon with team coming fifth position; created prediction market for the hackathon.
Participated in WEB3CON hackathon; helped integrate the erc721 nft ticketing smart contract to the frontend.
Participated in The Moralis Web3 hackathon as smart contract developer; developed an NFT marketplace for Manga to combat piracy.
Built a solana nft marketplace with metaplex.
Worked on Rice-swap, OvenSwap, floki-flomo NFT Marketplace.

Web3 ReactJS Frontend Developer at Freelance (2021 – 2021)