Experience

Professional engineering history

Current production ownership at UMS Kenya, plus previous independent practice and earlier progression. Selected systems live under Work.

Current

Production ownership

Roles that define how I spend engineering time today.

2026 — Present

Kenya

Current

Lead Software Engineer & Head of IT

Utility Metering Solutions (UMS Kenya)

Lead software engineering and IT operations for production systems that support financial and utility workflows — including systems that handle millions of KES in daily transactions. The work spans maintaining and improving live systems, shipping new capabilities, investigating production issues and bridging engineering with customer service and business operations.

  • Maintain and improve production systems involved in financial and utility workflows.
  • Engineer new software capabilities and operational improvements that reduce avoidable manual work.
  • Lead the IT function so technology operations remain available and recoverable.
  • Investigate production issues with customer service and operations, then implement durable fixes.
  • Prioritize reliability, security, data integrity and maintainability in day-to-day engineering decisions.

Part-time · Ongoing

Remote

Current

Expert Software Engineer

AfterQuery Experts

Contribute part-time as an AfterQuery Expert Software Engineer alongside the UMS role.

  • Applies production engineering judgment in expert software engineering contributions.

Previous

Earlier professional context

Independent systems work and career progression that led into the current role.

2024 — 2026

Narok / Nairobi, Kenya

Independent Systems Engineer & Fullstack Developer

Independent practice

Previous independent engineering practice focused on shipping production-oriented systems across web, backend and distributed architectures — with emphasis on reliability, security and clear service boundaries.

  • Owned end-to-end architecture for personal systems spanning fintech, messaging and infrastructure guardrails.
  • Focused on failure modes: idempotency, auditability, tenant isolation and graceful degradation.
  • Delivered full-stack products from NestJS/PostgreSQL backends to React/Next.js and Flutter clients.

2021 → 2026

Kenya

Engineering progression

Self-directed practice & earlier freelance delivery

Career progression from foundational web work through frameworks, full-stack systems, real-time collaboration and production delivery — prior to the current UMS leadership role.

  • 2021–2022: HTML/CSS/JavaScript foundations and first shipped utilities.
  • 2023: Multi-framework frontend systems (React, Vue, Angular) and PWA work.
  • 2024: Freelance delivery and full-stack platforms (Node, Django, MongoDB, PostgreSQL).
  • 2025–2026: Real-time collaboration, fintech ledgers, secure messaging and infrastructure automation systems.

Selected work

Systems built and documented

Experience is where I worked. Work is what I built — inspect decisions and architecture there.

  • Inkly

    Secure messaging · Real-time · Privacy

    Case study

  • Aegis

    Infrastructure · AIOps · Policy

    Case study

  • LedgerX

    Fintech · Multi-tenancy · Audit

    Case study

  • NestFi

    Fintech · Payments · Resilience

    Case study

Open to a small number of thoughtful collaborations involving reliable software, operational systems and technically demanding product work.

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