Professional experience

Engineering across products,
platforms and constraints.

Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years designing, delivering and supporting production systems across Microsoft, financial services and enterprise platforms. I combine hands-on engineering with technical direction, cross-team alignment and end-to-end ownership.

Current role: Software Engineer, Microsoft (Aug 2024–Present)
Professional path: 4 roles across Microsoft, Prime Bank Kenya, Indra, Gessic since 2019
Continuing study: MSc Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (2026-present, in progress)

Aug 2024
Present

Microsoft

Software Engineer · Windows Compliance & AI Tooling

Technical design and hands-on implementation of engineering services and distributed validation workflows.

Own discovery, prototyping, implementation, automated testing, integration and production support for C#/.NET engineering services.
Architect asynchronous orchestration with Azure Functions and Durable Functions, evaluating scalability, state management, retries, fault recovery and operational simplicity.
Lead production and pre-release investigation across services, applications, telemetry, operating-system, data-flow and network boundaries.
Drive technical alignment through design reviews, peer code reviews, documentation and testing strategy with engineering and external testing teams.
Apply AI-assisted engineering to testing, diagnostics and validation with attention to correctness, security and reproducibility.

Aug 2023
Aug 2024

Prime Bank Kenya

Software Engineer · Banking services & integrations

Java services, REST APIs and database-backed integrations with core banking systems.

Designed, developed, tested and supported backend integrations for business-critical financial data.
Translated operational and regulatory requirements into integration contracts, validation rules and data flows.
Designed workflows with controls for data integrity, auditability, access and failure handling.
Owned production integration troubleshooting, coordinating investigation and corrective changes across services, relational data stores and infrastructure.

Jul 2021
Aug 2023

Indra

Software Engineer · Enterprise platforms

C, C++, Java and Oracle SQL components for database-intensive enterprise platforms.

Developed and maintained backend modules, data-processing components and cross-system integrations deployed in customer environments.
Implemented performance and architecture improvements across application and database execution paths.
Diagnosed production failures across application, database and infrastructure layers and implemented corrective changes.
Contributed to technical design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment support and maintenance within multidisciplinary teams.

Aug 2019
Jun 2021

Gessic

Software Engineer · Backend & data-processing systems

End-to-end delivery of backend services, operational data pipelines and automation.

Delivered solutions from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment support and maintenance.
Built pipelines to extract, transform, validate and analyze operational data.
Worked directly with business requirements to refine technical solutions and resolve integration and reliability problems.

Toolkit

What I build with.

The languages, platforms and operating practices behind the work above.

Systems & data

Distributed systemsDatabase-backed servicesAsynchronous workflowsState managementSQL / Oracle SQLData integrityFailure recovery

Languages & platforms

C# / .NETC / C++JavaPythonTypeScriptAzureAWS

Delivery & operations

Azure Functions / Durable FunctionsAutomated validationObservabilityProduction diagnosticsDesign and code reviewsTechnical alignmentDocumentation

Education

Formal study, alongside the work.

MSc Computer Science: Georgia Institute of Technology · 2026-present · In progress
BSc Control Engineering: JKUAT · 2015-2019 · Completed

Prior credentials

Earlier coursework & certificates.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner: AWS · 2021
Historical credential; current certification status is not asserted.
Google Data Science Professional: Coursera · 2022

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