Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• At Focused.com, I lead engineering initiatives within the Profit Acceleration Software (PAS) ecosystem, delivering innovative, scalable solutions that improve business efficiency. My work encompasses system design, integration, documentation, and the application of agile methodologies to ensure high-quality, user-centric platforms.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• System Architecture and Scalability: Designed microservices-based architectures to build scalable, resilient systems that meet business demands while ensuring performance and security.
• Integration and Automation: Developed and optimized data pipelines, automating workflows and integrating third-party services to enhance data synchronization and system reliability.
• Payment and Security Solutions: Implemented secure payment systems and tiered access features to streamline subscription management while ensuring compliance with data protection standards.
• Agile Practices and Sprint Planning: Led sprint planning and agile ceremonies, focusing on iterative development, continuous improvement, and ensuring timely feature delivery.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Advocated for comprehensive documentation, ensuring solutions were well-documented, accessible, and easy to understand, facilitating team collaboration and future maintainability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked closely with product, business, and operations teams to align technical solutions with organizational goals, ensuring we delivered valuable results to clients and stakeholders.
• This role has sharpened my ability to build high-performance systems, enhance team collaboration, and align technical decisions with business objectives. I am passionate about leveraging technology to solve real-world challenges and look forward to connecting with professionals who share this vision.

Nov 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Nairobi, Kenya (Remote)

• At FinEazy, I played a key role in optimizing and scaling the engineering function, working across architecture, system management, and product development. My contributions focused on ensuring robust documentation, driving system innovations, and supporting the team in building efficient, scalable solutions.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• System Architecture and Documentation: Managed and updated documentation on FinEazy’s broader architecture, systems, and supplier interdependencies, ensuring alignment and clarity across the team.
• Chatbot Innovation and Technology Management: Led the innovation and management of FinEazy’s chatbot technology, collaborating with engineering to ensure it met customer needs and integrated seamlessly with our broader systems.
• Cross-Team Collaboration and Troubleshooting: Worked closely with the engineering team to maintain documentation that supported troubleshooting efforts, process optimization, and the onboarding of new engineers.
• Platform and Service Evaluation: Partnered with the team to evaluate platform and service options, helping define the chatbot roadmap and strategy to meet evolving business requirements.
• Process and Best Practice Establishment: Set the engineering team up for success by implementing best practices, optimizing systems, and establishing rituals and processes to enhance team performance and product delivery.
• Automation of Release Processes: Built systems to streamline and automate software release cycles, ensuring efficient deployment and version management.
• Product Iteration and Improvement: Led continuous product iteration, incorporating feedback from users, customers, and team members to ensure the product evolved in line with both user needs and technological advancements.
• My role at FinEazy deepened my expertise in system architecture, team collaboration, and continuous product improvement.

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr · Nairobi, Kenya

• At The Digital Monkeys, I contributed to updating and maintaining partner websites, ensuring they were aligned with client needs and business objectives. My role involved a variety of tasks focused on content updates, image management, and server configuration to optimize the performance and user experience of the sites.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• Content and Image Updates: Managed and implemented content changes, including text updates and image replacements, ensuring that websites reflected the latest marketing, product, and company information.
• Server Configuration: Worked on configuring and maintaining the server environments to ensure smooth site operation, including optimizing performance and troubleshooting technical issues.
• Website Optimization: Collaborated with design and content teams to ensure that all updates were executed with attention to user experience and site speed, maintaining a clean, user-friendly interface.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborated with internal teams and clients to understand their needs and execute website updates in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring the final product aligned with business goals and technical standards.
• This experience helped me refine my skills in web development, project coordination, and technical troubleshooting, while also improving my ability to implement user-centric changes that drive engagement and site performance.

Sep 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• During my tenure in GitHub’s Business Development department, I focused on data-driven solutions, cross-functional collaboration, and building tools that amplified team impact. My primary contributions included:
• Data Insights for Decision-Making: Surfaced actionable insights by leveraging internal tools and data repositories to support strategic decisions.
• Secret Scanning Collaboration: Partnered with engineering teams on GitHub’s Secret Scanning project, enhancing security by identifying and mitigating exposure risks for sensitive information in repositories.
• Internal Tool Development: Designed and implemented tools using GitHub Pages, JavaScript, and Golang to showcase our team’s achievements and improve stakeholder engagement.
• Through this role, I developed a deep understanding of product security, internal tool creation, and effective cross-team collaboration. My work contributed to improving both the security and operational efficiency of GitHub, driving impactful outcomes for the organization and its developer community.

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• At TrueBotanicals, I led the engineering team in building and enhancing the e-commerce platform, focusing on both theme development and site design to ensure a seamless, user-centric online shopping experience for customers. My role involved working closely with product and design teams to create and refine features that aligned with the company’s values and business goals.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• E-Commerce Theme Development and Site Design: Led the development and customization of e-commerce themes, optimizing the site design for a better user experience, fast navigation, and high conversion rates. Focused on creating a visually appealing, responsive, and intuitive design that reflected the brand’s identity.
• User-Centric Design Optimization: Worked with designers to create and implement site layouts, product pages, and user interfaces that improved the shopping journey, ensuring a smooth transition from browsing to checkout.
• Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Collaborated with product, and design teams to ensure the technical solutions aligned with business objectives, delivering a seamless integration of design, functionality, and branding.
• Agile Methodology: Applied Agile practices, managing sprints and continuous iteration to introduce new features, improvements, and design tweaks based on customer feedback and usage data.
• Process and Workflow Optimization: Streamlined development workflows, improving communication across teams, and ensuring rapid deployment of new features without compromising quality or user experience.
• This experience strengthened my expertise in e-commerce platform development, site design, and user experience optimization, while honing my ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver solutions that align with both business and technical objectives.

Apr 2019 – Sep 2019 · 5 mos · Austin, Texas Area · Remote

• At BestSelf Co., a company dedicated to creating tools for personal growth and productivity, I worked as a Full Stack Engineer, focusing on the development and optimization of various digital products to enhance the company’s suite of self-improvement tools. This role allowed me to work with a talented engineering team and contribute to projects that aimed to improve users’ ability to reach their personal and professional goals.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• Product Development: Designed and developed key features for BestSelf’s core product offerings, ensuring a seamless user experience. Focused on both front-end and back-end development, working with modern web technologies to improve the functionality and performance of the digital tools used by customers.
• System Optimization: Improved the performance and scalability of the platform by identifying and addressing system bottlenecks, leading to faster load times and a better overall user experience.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Worked closely with the product and design teams to translate business requirements and user feedback into technical specifications. This collaboration helped deliver innovative features that aligned with BestSelf’s mission to empower individuals.
• UI/UX Enhancements: Contributed to the design and development of new user interface elements, focusing on making the platform more intuitive and user-friendly.
• Agile Development: Participated in agile development cycles, utilizing Scrum methodologies to efficiently manage product releases and continuous integration.
• This role allowed me to enhance my full-stack development skills while contributing to a company that is committed to helping people improve their lives. I gained invaluable experience in creating consumer-focused digital solutions and learned how to balance technical requirements with user-centric design principles.

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 10 mos · Nairobi, Kenya

• At Andela, I’ve been privileged to lead engineering teams and mentor talented developers, focusing on improving engineering processes and delivering impactful solutions. My work spans diverse industries, including beauty, self-help, engineering infrastructure, and pet care, collaborating with companies like True Botanicals, BestSelf, GitHub, and Kinship.
• For True Botanicals, a luxury skincare brand, I contributed to enhancing their digital presence by optimizing e-commerce experiences on their store and supporting the app's scalability. At BestSelf, I worked on improving the functionality of their store, ensuring a seamless user experience aligned with their mission to help individuals achieve their goals.
• With GitHub, I collaborated on initiatives to improve the platform’s functionality and workflows, fostering smoother engineering processes for a global community of developers. Lastly, at Kinship, a leader in pet care, I collaborated with engineering teams focused on data pipeline development. These pipelines facilitated seamless data exchange between internal systems and external shelter software, enabling timely insights for operational decisions. Additionally, my work supported the rapid launch of a high-performing web application, contributing to enhanced pet adoption experiences and improved customer engagement.
• Through these experiences, I’ve honed my leadership and technical skills across varied domains, driving value through strategic collaboration and technological innovation. I’m excited to continue leveraging my expertise to deliver impactful solutions for businesses and their customers.

Aug 2018 – Nov 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As a Full-Stack Engineer at TrueBotanicals, I played a critical role in developing and maintaining features for the company’s e-commerce platform. My contributions spanned across various stages of development, from ideation to deployment, ensuring that the digital experience met the needs of both the business and the customers.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• E-Commerce Development: Contributed to the development of e-commerce features, focusing on both the front-end and back-end to improve the overall shopping experience. I worked on customizing product pages, checkout flows, and other key site elements to enhance user engagement and conversion rates.
• Full-Stack Implementation: Worked on both server-side and client-side technologies, collaborating with other engineers to build reliable, performant solutions that supported the company’s business objectives.
• Site Optimization: Focused on optimizing the site’s performance, ensuring fast load times and smooth navigation to improve the user experience. Addressed bugs, performance bottlenecks, and security issues to maintain a high-quality platform.
• Collaborative Development: Collaborated with product managers, designers, and other engineers to ensure all features and updates aligned with business goals, brand requirements, and user needs.
• Agile Development: Participated in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily standups, contributing to an Agile development process that ensured timely delivery of high-priority features and improvements.
• This experience honed my technical skills across both front-end and back-end development, while also giving me exposure to the fast-paced, customer-focused e-commerce industry. It further reinforced my ability to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions while working within cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.

Oct 2017 – Jul 2018 · 9 mos · Nairobi

• At Arifu, an ed-tech company dedicated to providing accessible and impactful learning experiences, I collaborated with the Engineering team to build and enhance the platform’s core capabilities. The focus was on developing tools and features that empowered learners by extending the reach and usability of the platform.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• Extending the Chatbot Platform: Worked on the expansion of the chatbot system, enhancing its ability to deliver personalized learning experiences and improving its interaction with users to meet their educational needs.
• System Metrics Collection and Analysis: Collected and analyzed key performance indicators (KPIs) on system usage and performance. This data helped inform system improvements, ensuring a responsive and efficient platform for both learners and educators.
• Building a Knowledge Base: Contributed to the development of a knowledge base that streamlined access to critical information, supporting both internal team knowledge and user access to learning resources.
• Core API Expansion: Collaborated on extending the platform’s core API, improving the integration and functionality of third-party services and enabling more flexible interactions with the system.
• This experience deepened my expertise in API development, system performance monitoring, and user interaction design, while reinforcing the importance of building scalable, data-driven solutions in the ed-tech space.

Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr · Nairobi

• As a Software Engineer at Arifu, I contributed to the development and enhancement of the platform’s core features, focusing on the chatbot system and improving the user experience. I worked closely with the Engineering team to implement features and optimize the platform’s performance to better serve the growing user base.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• Supporting the Chatbot Platform: Assisted in extending the functionality of the chatbot, ensuring it delivered relevant, personalized educational content to users, enhancing engagement and learning outcomes.
• System Metrics Collection: Participated in the collection and analysis of system usage metrics, helping identify performance bottlenecks and areas for optimization to improve the overall user experience.
• This role allowed me to gain hands-on experience with full-stack development and deepened my understanding of building scalable systems in the ed-tech space, all while contributing to the growth of a platform aimed at making education more accessible.

Jan 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Nairobi, Kenya

• At The Work Crowd, a platform designed to connect businesses with freelance professionals, I contributed to the development and enhancement of the platform by implementing new system features and optimizing existing functionalities. My role involved working closely with the design and engineering teams to ensure the platform’s features were user-friendly, efficient, and scalable.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• Extending and Implementing System Features: Worked on adding new features to the platform and extending existing ones, improving the user experience and functionality for both freelancers and businesses.
• Translating Wireframes into Functional Web Views: Collaborated with the design team to convert wireframes into responsive, functional web views, ensuring that the platform was visually appealing and easy to navigate across devices.
• Testing New Features: Played a key role in testing new system features to ensure they were bug-free and met the project’s requirements before deployment.
• Researching New Technologies: Actively researched and evaluated new technologies to improve the platform’s performance and scalability, contributing to continuous innovation and technical improvements.
• This experience helped me deepen my full-stack development skills while enhancing my ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality features that drove platform growth and user satisfaction.

Jun 2015 – Mar 2016 · 9 mos · Kenya

• ● Developing Web Platforms integrated to existing API systems.
• ● Translating Wireframes into Rich Interactive Websites.

Mar 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Nairobi

• During my time at HP Lab, Strathmore University, I worked closely with the Ministry of Health, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) - Kenya, the Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies (MEDS), the National Quality Control Laboratory (NQCL), and other healthcare organizations to develop software solutions aimed at improving healthcare delivery and public health systems in Kenya. My role focused on building and supporting critical healthcare applications, optimizing system performance, and ensuring scalability.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• Developing and Supporting Healthcare Solutions: Collaborated with healthcare organizations to design and implement solutions that improved accessibility and quality of healthcare services. This included integrating systems to support health data management, quality control, and educational resources for healthcare professionals.
• Code Walk-throughs: Led code walk-through sessions to ensure best practices in software design, prioritizing stability, integrity, and efficiency across applications developed for healthcare institutions.
• Change Control Management: Used version control tools (GIT) to manage software changes and upgrades, ensuring smooth deployments with minimal disruptions to healthcare systems.
• Web Tool Auditing: Audited web tools to ensure compliance with healthcare standards, maintaining the stability and performance needed for handling sensitive health data.
• Research and Tool Implementation: Spearheaded research and the implementation of new technologies, improving development workflows and enhancing system performance within the healthcare sector.
• This role provided me with valuable experience in developing technology solutions for healthcare systems, collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance public health infrastructure, and delivering software that meets the needs of healthcare organizations in Kenya.

Apr 2012 – Mar 2013 · 11 mos · Nairobi

• ● Assisting the Core Team in troubleshooting, testing and deploying solutions and applications for the Ministry of Health in collaboration with Clinton Health Access Initiative - Kenya