Samuel Adom
Lead developer, Quari Labs · Co-founder, Africa Trade Intelligence · Optometrist · Ghana
Self-taught developer and co-founder based in Ghana. I build AI and data products for trade and health, including Africa Trade Intelligence (ATI), market intelligence for African commodity exporters. The twist: I am a trained optometrist.
Projects
AI market intelligence for African commodity exporters, starting with cocoa.
The whole platform, as its only technical person: engineering, product design and infrastructure. It has four layers: an EUDR deforestation-compliance checker, supply-chain intelligence, market intelligence and counterparty intelligence. It generates PDF compliance reports with real Sentinel-2 before-and-after satellite imagery, and uses Claude Haiku to filter geopolitical news from GDELT.
Outcome: Live in production, after a security-hardening pass. Applied to the AfCFTA Digital Innovation Challenge 2026 at Pilot stage.
A maternal and newborn danger-sign checker.
A phone-first web checker that walks pregnant women and new mothers through maternal and newborn danger signs and tells them how urgently to seek care. A language model handles the conversation; a rule engine makes the clinical call. It began as a general health-assistant chatbot and pivoted to this dual-care checker. I am technical lead, developer and product designer in a team of four.
Outcome: Reviewed by three clinicians (a doctor, a physician assistant and a midwife), who returned a conditional rejection; the open gaps are being worked through. Submitted to the African Impact Challenge.
An AI and blockchain product studio.
The studio ships Velix Protocol (liquid staking for STRK and METIS), Alpha Alith (an AI layer for on-chain insights), Froska (a memetic-finance experiment), SafeLine and Africa Trade Intelligence. I am its lead developer, in charge of all development and product design. I co-founded ATI, where I build the whole platform, and SafeLine, where I am technical lead; earlier I ran marketing for Velix Protocol.
Outcome: Velix Protocol is live, Alpha Alith is in beta, and SafeLine is in development.
Other builds
- 0xPeaky · A multi-agent trading system (Scout, Peaky and Guardian) built with OpenClaw and Claude.
- Alpha Agent · AI agents for on-chain analytics.
Skills
- Engineering
- AI tooling and LLM integration (Claude, OpenAI) · Full-stack web: TypeScript, Next.js, React, FastAPI
- Data
- Market and data analysis (Python, SQL, SPSS)
- Business
- Product strategy and go-to-market · Growth marketing
- Community
- Web3 community and marketing
- Health
- Clinical optometry
- Core stack
- TypeScript · Python · SQL · Next.js · React · Node.js · FastAPI · Tailwind CSS · Vercel · DigitalOcean
Education
Doctor of Optometry (OD)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi
Web3
- Metis · Africa Manager / Marketing Manager · 2022 – 2024
- Velix Protocol · Marketing Manager · 2023 – 2024
- Netswap · Community Manager · 2021 – 2023