I build and operate backend systems for SaaS and civic-tech platforms — APIs, distributed pipelines, AI/LLM infrastructure, and the observability that keeps them running when nobody's watching.
# Most recently a Senior Software Engineer at Search Atlas, an agentic SEO platform — backend services integrating Google Search Console, Analytics, Ads, and Meta Ads. Previously three years at Code for Africa building civic-tech data platforms used by researchers and journalists across the continent.
# Recent work centers on applied AI systems: gated RAG pipelines, LLM routing with automatic failover, and self-hosted model platforms where data sovereignty matters. AWS Solutions Architect certified. Open-source contributor to Django and CKAN.
Backend services for an agentic SEO platform — DRF APIs over Google Search Console, Analytics, Ads and Meta Ads. Extended the LLM orchestration layer with multi-provider routing, automatic failover, and cost-aware model selection. Instrumented Django and Celery with OpenTelemetry, and tuned PostgreSQL and ClickHouse for high-volume analytics tables.
Backend and infrastructure for civic-tech platforms used by researchers, journalists, and policy teams across Africa. Led the architecture and Ansible-driven deployment of multi-node Elasticsearch clusters, gated on a Rally benchmark harness before production traffic. Built end-to-end observability on Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Alertmanager, and drove CI/CD adoption across engineering teams.
Tendersure Africa, a B2B procurement SaaS — Django and Vue.js with localised payment gateways, signed callbacks, and idempotent retries; Terraform provisioning, VM-to-ECS container migration, CloudWatch and Prometheus alerting.
Python and Flask data applications over PostgreSQL, dbt-based ETL pipelines, and JupyterHub deployed on Docker Swarm for the analytics team.
Built jobsearchke.com from scratch — Django, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript, deployed on DigitalOcean behind Docker and Nginx.
Led development of an internal ad-quality classifier built as a gated multi-stage RAG pipeline — cheap signals evaluated first, so expensive model calls run only when they change the outcome.
Routing layer across leading LLM providers with automatic failover and cost-aware model selection — one interface for product teams, resilience and spend control underneath.
Designed and deployed an 8-node Elasticsearch cluster — 3 master-eligible, 5 data nodes — with custom Ansible roles for re-indexing, ILM, and snapshot lifecycle management. Benchmarked with Elastic Rally.
Led the deployment of a self-hosted LLM platform to complement commercial providers — a private option where data sovereignty and predictable inference costs mattered most.
Contributed to a distributed news ingestion pipeline operated by Mediacloud, a nonprofit research collaboration — an open archive used by researchers studying media ecosystems globally.
Backend services for an IoT air-quality network across multiple African cities — geo-tagged ingestion and async aggregation tolerant of intermittent connectivity.
Census and survey visualization platform with nested administrative geographies, tuned for spatial queries serving interactive maps across multiple African countries.
Modular Python bot on MetaTrader 5 with a shared-code backtester, Telegram notifications, and multi-config isolation via magic numbers.