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.
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.