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Production engineering work across fintech, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS — covering architecture decisions, implementation details, and measured outcomes.

Kenya Civic Info Bot — AI-Powered Civic Education Chatbot

Live

A RAG-powered conversational AI tool that answers civic and governance questions grounded on Kenya's Constitution 2010, IEBC voter registration information, and county government explainers — available on web and WhatsApp.

Response time
< 3s
end-to-end from user query to grounded answer
Civic TechAIRAG
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Independent Project — built for civic technology and NGO sector demonstration
6 min readJuly 2026

Riggs London Kenya — Mobile-First E-Commerce Platform

Live

A solo monorepo e-commerce platform bringing Riggs London fragrances to the Kenyan market, built with Next.js 14, Fastify, PostgreSQL with pgvector, Redis, M-Pesa STK Push, Pesapal, and an Anthropic Claude AI chatbot.

Payment success rate
~85%
vs 15–30% failure rate with international card processors for Kenyan cardholders
E-commerceFintechAI
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Riggs London Kenya
7 min readMay 2026

Internal Operations Automation — Alliance Bioversity & CIAT

Live

A 6-month engineering engagement at a CGIAR research centre building internal automation tooling — Python/Flask RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL integration, and web applications adopted by a cross-functional team of 12. Delivered 20% processing time reduction and 40% elimination of manual tasks.

Operational processing time reduction
20%
automated data workflows replacing manual processes
EnterpriseAutomationPython
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Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT
4 min readNovember 2024

ChamaBot — WhatsApp-Native Savings Group Automation

In Development

A WhatsApp-native savings group bot for Kenyan chamas — automating M-Pesa contributions, treasurer reconciliation, and member balance queries through natural language. Built on Fastify, PostgreSQL, M-Pesa Daraja, and Anthropic Claude for multilingual command parsing.

Treasurer reconciliation time
~80%(target)
reduction — manual Excel reconciliation replaced by automated event log
Consumer FintechWhatsAppM-Pesa
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ChamaBot (Independent Project)
12 min readJanuary 2026

SmartSchedule Healthcare — Enterprise AI-Powered Scheduling SaaS

In Development

An enterprise SaaS platform targeting 40% reduction in healthcare appointment no-shows and 50% administrative efficiency gains for East African healthcare providers. Built on .NET 10, Azure, and microservices with CQRS/Event Sourcing. MVP in active development.

Target no-show reduction
40%(target)
projected based on comparable scheduling intervention studies
HealthcareSaaSEnterprise
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SmartSchedule Healthcare
6 min readJanuary 2026