Hi! My name is Brian and I am a software engineer

Based in Nairobi, Kenya. My expertise ranges mostly on working in data engineering and backend with some frontend skills. Outside of work, I'm usually drawing, playing video games, reading, or doing side projects.

Experience 💼

July, 2022 - now

Savannah Informatics

data engineer

Headed a team of data engineers and achieved all and spearheaded 3 projects end to end. Developed a semantic layer enabling data commercialization through APIs, boosting revenue by 7%. Architected LLM-driven consultation modules using LangChain & Milvus vector store, achieving 40% user adoption for the products. Designed and deployed 3+ microservices in Django (Python), handling 5k reqs/min under Kubernetes. Maintained data pipeline infrastructure with a 99.9% SLA.

October, 2021 - June, 2022

Vorane Studios

software engineer

Migrated to automated deployments for our tech stack. Created an online learning platform tailored for medical professionals that led to increased revenue for the company.

Jan, 2020 - Jun, 2020

Weza Ventures

software engineer

Conducted comprehensive software testing on various systems

Sep, 2017 - Nov, 2021

Jomo Kenyatta University

Bachelor in Information Technology

Studied fundamentals in computer science

Projects 🚀

site

website

Personal website written with love.

reactastro.jstypescript

Code Site

django chain

library

A Django library for seamless LangChain integration, making it easy to add LLM capabilities to your Django applications.

djangopythonailangchain

Code Site

go ryuk

cli

Ryuk is a fast environment management tool for your projects. Manage your application configuration and secrets and sync them to your cloud repositories all in one cli.

gocli

Code Site

go interpreter

interpreter

Simple interpreter written in golang.

gointerpreter

Code Site

cookiecutter airflow

boilerplate

Cookiecutter Airflow is the fastest way to get started with data orchestration with modern python tooling.

apache airflowpythoncookiecutter

Code

kenya headline vault

scraping

This project aims to scrape the latest data from all kenya news outlets using puppeteer and node.js.

javascriptnode.jspuppeteer

Code

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