Nairobi County, Kenya
Senior Backend Engineer with 3 live production SaaS platforms in Kenya’s Fintech (Microfinance) and Waste Management sectors. Developed a Bodaboda Sacco CRM that digitized financial records since 2014, reduced staffing costs, improved service speed, and features MPesa integration, instant SMS, LLM assistance, and robust Azure cloud deployment with ISP failover for high availability. Currently building a 4th system using Python (FastAPI) + Next.js while deepening DevSecOps and security expertise.
Key Projects & Achievements: Bodaboda Microfinance & Sacco Management System (Laravel) Designed, developed, and maintain a production SaaS platform for bodaboda savings and credit cooperatives. Enabled accurate tracking and updating of financial records dating back to 2014, significantly improving transparency and audit readiness. Reduced operational staff requirements while increasing efficiency in member management, savings, loans, and contributions processing. Delivered major operational cost savings and faster service delivery to sacco members through automated workflows and real-time data access. Features include member management, loan disbursement & repayment, vehicle tracking, and secure financial reporting. Tech: Laravel 12, MySQL, Spatie, Azure, Alpine.js + occasional Vue.
• Designed and implemented secure ETL pipelines on Azure Synapse + Databricks. • Hardened internal and customer-facing APIs (rate limiting, mTLS, WAF rules, JWT validation). • Established secure CI/CD practices that became the company standard. • Mentored junior developers on secure coding and threat modeling.
Full-stack developer on PHP/Laravel and WordPress projects. First exposure to production systems, code reviews, and basic security practices.