Professional Journey

Origin HQ

• •Actively involved in building and launching Origin's own products as a startup, from ideation to development, contributing across both technical and strategic areas
• •Driving the company's technical vision by architecting solutions that balance clean design, robust architecture, and business impact
• •Designing and developing full-stack web applications delivering responsive, accessible, and SEO-optimized user interfaces
• •My team won Best Overall at the 2026 Engineering for Change Global AI Hackathon. We built E4CInsights, an AI pipeline that queries E4C's vetted sustainable development knowledge, pulls live statistics from World Bank and WHO, and synthesises fully cited, decision-grade policy briefs with a human in the loop for review.

KIFWA

• •Developing a multi-tenant platform with three integrated systems for clearing agents, insurers, and KIFWA service providers — streamlining bond purchases, renewals, indemnity verification, and issuance for 2,000+ licensed clearing agents and member companies in the logistics industry
• •Improving system performance through optimized APIs and caching, targeting a 30–40% reduction in load times

Pacaya

• •Built and optimized features in a Next.js application serving a projected 3,000+ monthly users
• •Improved backend API response times by 25% through query tuning and efficient data handling
• •Reduced deployment errors by 40% via better CI checks and strict type enforcement

KamiLimu

• •Selected as 1 of 38 participants out of hundreds of applicants for an 8-month mentorship program
• •Completed 100+ hours of training across technical, professional, and public-speaking tracks
• •Delivered multiple innovation and technical presentations to audiences of 50+ peers

Achievements & Certificates:

Certificate of CompletionInnovation Finalist

Furaha Ventures

• •Built an IoT-connected app consumed by hundreds of daily sensor events for realtime monitoring
• •Delivered responsive UI components that reduced dashboard navigation time by 30%
• •Integrated backend APIs resulting in 20% fewer data syncing failures across IoT devices

The Nakuja Project — JICA & JKUAT

• •Contributed to avionics systems for the N-3 rocket, which achieved successful subscale system tests
• •Participated in hardware development including PCB fabrication and parachute ejection mechanism
• •Improved recovery subsystem reliability by an estimated 20–30% through iterative testing

Nyandarua County Assembly

• •Supported HR system used by 100+ staff members, improving internal data access
• •Built a library management system with book reservation, borrowing, and automated return-notification features, cutting manual tracking work by 60%
• •Maintained and operated live-streaming infrastructure for the parliamentary proceedings, improving session uptime to 99%

Achievements & Certificates:

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