Lekan (Paul) Soyewo

Founder & Engineer at PicksHub

• Built and run pickshub.ca, a Canadian sports publication covering news, analysis and predictions across 15+ leagues.
• Designed the editorial backend on Cloudflare Workers that serves the website, the mobile apps and a Next.js newsroom admin.
• Shipped a native iOS app on the App Store (SwiftUI, widgets, rich push notifications) and a native Android app (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose).
• Built PicksHub Play, a predictions game whose results settle automatically from official finals.

Researcher at Cognora

• Led product vision and development of StudyBuddy, an AI chat platform for learning, from first concept to launch.
• Engineered the full backend and led a complete redesign of the frontend.
• Architected an agentic framework that works with all major AI models and providers.
• Built an internal dashboard for key user metrics, and analysed usage and learning outcomes to refine model routing.

StudyBuddystuddybuddy.ca

• Grew an AI-powered learning platform to over 1,000 active users, with real-time collaboration features.
• Integrated AI models through a custom Node.js framework, improving system performance by 40% with caching and WebSockets.
• React frontend and Cloudflare Workers backend with sub-100ms response times under high concurrency.

React · Cloudflare Workers · WebSockets · Node.js · Convex · PostgreSQL · Redis

Sentiment Analysis of Movie ReviewsGitHub

• Built a sentiment classification pipeline on a large movie review dataset, improving accuracy by 15% with TF-IDF and LSTM models.

Python · scikit-learn · TensorFlow · NLP

Moodle Email ScraperGitHub

• Python scraper with parallel processing via ThreadPoolExecutor, 50% faster than sequential, with rate limiting and error handling.

Python · BeautifulSoup

York University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Toronto, ON · Graduated June 2026

Dalhousie University

Bachelor of Science, Applied Computer Science

Halifax, NS