Software Engineer& Tech Leader
Passionate about building scalable systems, leading technical teams, and delivering reliable infrastructure. Experienced in backend engineering, site reliability, and technical leadership.
About Me
I’m a software engineer specializing in backend systems and infrastructure reliability. My experience spans hands-on development, site reliability engineering, and leading technical teams.
I thrive on solving complex backend challenges - designing scalable APIs, optimizing performance, and ensuring high availability. I've led IT modernization initiatives, introduced cloud-first strategies, and contributed to transforming legacy monoliths into service-oriented platforms.
Backend Development
Building scalable APIs and microservices
Site Reliability
Ensuring high availability and performance
Technical Leadership
Leading teams and driving technical decisions
Skills & Expertise
Backend Development
Database Architecture
System Design
Cloud Infrastructure
DevOps & SRE
Performance Optimization
Technology Stack
Experience
Designing and maintaining scalable backend services powering fintech payment solutions for government and enterprise clients. Primary stack includes Python, Django, Celery, and PostgreSQL, with deployments on Dockerized environments.
Key Achievements:
- Optimized RESTful APIs for high-volume transactions, reducing average response time by 20% through query tuning and Redis caching.
- Contributed to service decoupling efforts by assisting in the design of microservices using Go and Kafka for event-driven architecture.
- Integrated mobile money (M-PESA) and bank APIs,enabling real-time disbursements and reconciliation.
- Collaborated with DevOps to enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Led the IT department in a dynamic academic environment, aligning technology strategy with institutional goals. Oversaw infrastructure modernization, cross-platform system integrations, and IT governance.
Key Achievements:
- Provided technical leadership across internal IT and external vendor teams, fostering a culture of innovation and operational excellence.
- Led the adoption of cloud-based infrastructure to enhance service reliability, accessibility, and delivery across departments.
- Standardized IT governance through documented policies on data privacy, access control, and network usage.
- Consolidated key platforms including LMS, MIS, and the institutional website, resulting in improved system availability and user experience
Led enterprise integration projects for US-based clients, focusing on API orchestration, data transformation, and business process automation.
Key Achievements:
- Architected middleware for synchronizing ERP, CRM, and BI tools using Python and low-code platforms like n8n and Zapier.
- Built webhook-based event-driven flows to support real-time system communication and data consistency.
- Defined scalable integration patterns and reusability standards to support long-term platform sustainability.
- Collaborated with remote cross-functional teams to deploy and monitor critical integrations with minimal downtime.
Maintained high availability and performance for large-scale telecom infrastructure. Focused on monitoring, automation, and incident response to meet SLA targets.
Key Achievements:
- Achieved 99.9% uptime across 200+ critical telecom sites through proactive monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Reduced MTTR by 60% through root-cause analysis and automation of recovery procedures.
- Developed Python and Bash scripts to automate over 80% of deployment and health-check tasks.
- Led real-time NOC incident response for Nairobi region, coordinating between field engineers and Tier-3 support.
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