Self-motivated software engineer specializing in systems architecture and backend performance, with extensive experience maintaining cloud systems and leading LLM pipelines, RAG systems, and agentic AI projects. Passionate about system design, database optimization, performance profiling, and mentoring aspiring engineers.
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backend systems
- ›Promoted to Head of Engineering to lead a cross-functional team of 7 across backend, frontend, mobile and design while remaining the primary backend engineer with approximately 80% hands-on contribution.
- ›Architect and build production backend systems using Python, Django, FastAPI and Go, owning system design, APIs, PostgreSQL, asynchronous processing, deployment and long-term reliability.
- ›Built and operated payment infrastructure across 7 payment rails, including Stripe, M-Pesa, Basis Theory, IntaSend and direct banking APIs across Kenya and Tanzania.
- ›Diagnosed and resolved a critical Stripe manual-capture failure, restoring 100% automated payment processing and eliminating a production revenue leak affecting hundreds of thousands of users.
- ›Restructured engineering into 2 specialised pods across Product Delivery and Platform Stability and introduced a formal PDLC and weekly sprint cadence, reducing delivery cycles from monthly to weekly.
- ›Designed and operated cloud infrastructure and developer tooling supporting customer-facing production workloads, with a focus on observability, reliability, automation and operational efficiency.
- ›Led architecture and implementation of AI-powered products using LLMs, RAG and autonomous agents, while mentoring engineers through technical design reviews, code reviews and pair programming.
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