Nairobi, EAT. Open to AI and full stack roles
AI and full stack engineer. I ship internal systems that executives make decisions on, and before that spent four years in Laravel and Vue on platforms where the users are not engineers and the data has consequences, including the national portal the Kenyan government publishes its tenders on.
Nothing here is rounded up. Each figure points at a system that is linked from the work.
What I am claiming
On BidBuddy the same person designed the Postgres schema, wrote the FastAPI service over it, and built the screen a chief officer approves a bid on. Handing an API over a wall and calling it done is where most of the defects I have had to fix were born.
PHPUnit at the unit level, Cypress end to end, and a coverage standard I hold to rather than report on. A green suite is not proof on its own, so the question I ask is whether the test would actually have failed before the fix.
Before I wrote services I cleaned datasets, built ARIMA forecasts and shipped Power BI and Tableau dashboards. That is why I reach for a query plan and a measurement before I reach for an opinion about what is slow.
The method
Most of what I have built was built in a small team where the review that catches a mistake is not guaranteed to arrive. That constraint shaped every step below. When there may be nobody to catch it, the process has to do the job a second pair of eyes would have done.
Selected work
Internal bid management platform
An end-to-end platform for running the bid pipeline, from the moment an opportunity appears on a portal to the moment senior management signs off on chasing it. It captures opportunities across six procurement sources: tenders.go.ke, eGP Kenya, KRA, KPLC, KenyaRe and TenderSure, so nobody is refreshing six sites by hand and nobody misses a deadline because they were only watching five.
Internal system, no public link.
Multi-country HRMS, built on Horilla
A leave management system built on the Horilla open source HRMS, serving employees across five countries from one deployment. The interesting problem is not the request form, it is that five countries means five sets of statutory entitlements, five public holiday calendars and five ideas of who signs off on what, none of which can be hardcoded if the sixth country is ever going to be cheap to add.
Internal system, no public link.
National government tender platform
The platform Kenyan government tenders are published and managed through, serving suppliers and procurement officers across the country. Search, filtering and reporting over procurement data that has to be correct and available when a tender deadline lands.
Published npm package
A Vue 3 component that formats numbers with thousands separators as the user types. The hard part is not the formatting, it is holding the cursor in the right place after the string under it has changed length, which is why most implementations of this feel broken.
Open to AI and full stack roles, based in Nairobi, Kenya. The fastest way to get a sense of how I think is the method page; the fastest way to reach me is email.