Portfolio

Projects

• Movies API

  A small movies API covering the create, read and delete operations, written to get comfortable with API design.

  GoAPI

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• PitchSync

  An influencer marketing platform connecting brands with niche creators - a Go and PostgreSQL API with a React and TypeScript interface, plus an Apify pipeline that discovers and enriches creator profiles at scale.

  GoReactTypeScript

• Container Runtime

  Upstream test coverage for the hostNetwork helper on Linux and Windows - 231 lines of tests merged into the 1.7 release by a maintainer.

  GoOpen SourceTesting

  Source

• LogNet

  A logging framework for Go - messages are produced and consumed over HTTP, with sinks for files, databases and external services.

  GoLogging

  Source

• IoT Sensor Dashboard

  A dashboard and API for temperature and humidity readings, fed by custom firmware on an ESP8266 reading a DHT11 sensor.

  C++IoTEmbedded

  Source

• MicroGrad

  A NumPy tensor library - broadcasting, matmul, transpose, reshape and reductions, with a test suite. The beginnings of an autograd engine, built to learn deep learning from the inside.

  PythonNumPyDeep Learning

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• MediAlert

  A medicine reminder app - a Flask and Docker service with a notifications UI for keeping track of ongoing medication.

  PythonFlaskDocker

• Reed-Solomon Codes

  Error-correcting codes over GF(2^8), implemented from scratch - finite field arithmetic, generator polynomials, Berlekamp-Massey, Chien search and Forney's algorithm. An interactive demo encodes a message, lets you corrupt it, then corrects the errors live.

  PythonCoding TheoryMathematics

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Skills

Languages

Go · Python · C · Assembly · SQL

Systems

Linux internals · RISC-V · QEMU · Bare-metal bring-up · Embedded video

Data & ML

NumPy · Neural networks · Signal & image processing

Platform

Docker & OCI · containerd · OAuth 2.0 · GitHub Actions

Experience

1. Full Stack Engineer at Briter

   Mar 2023 - Jul 2024

   • Full-time, on-site in Nairobi.
   • Worked across React.js and Go.

2. Software Engineer at Novek

   Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

   • Designed, developed and tested software as a full-time engineer.
   • Stack included Go and Python.

3. Software Engineer at Deveint Ltd

   Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

   • Spearheaded the design and development of a ride-booking Android application using Java.
   • Used Flask and Google Cloud Platform alongside it.

4. Software Engineer Intern at Twixt Technologies Ltd

   Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

   • Built image processing with OpenCV to detect and process barcodes and QR codes.
   • Designed and implemented capture of that data into an SQLite database.
   • Integrated the image processing algorithms with the database management system.