Senior software engineer and engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building financial-services platforms, payment integrations, APIs, data workflows, and cloud-native applications. As the permanent Digital Factory Manager at UMWALIMU SACCO, I lead an eight-person team delivering digital banking solutions, alongside separate consulting engagements. My work combines hands-on backend and full-stack engineering with distributed systems, data integration, production AI workflows, CI/CD, and technical mentorship. I have collaborated with remote, multicultural teams across Africa, Europe, Japan, and the United States. Core technologies include C#, ASP.NET Core, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Docker, AWS, and Palantir Foundry.
Concurrent consultancy alongside permanent employment at UMWALIMU SACCO; remote from Accra, Ghana.
• Implement production AI and data solutions, translating complex client requirements into deployable workflows, integrations, and maintainable product capabilities.
• Deliver full-stack capabilities for Hence Legal’s proprietary platform and collaborate directly with stakeholders across the United States, Europe, and Africa.
• Deployed through Hence to Unruly Corporation for a Palantir Foundry stack migration, aligning frontend and backend runtime endpoints, OSDK dependencies, OAuth client configuration, and ontology-backed application wiring.
Technologies: Palantir Foundry, OSDK, OAuth, TypeScript, React, data integration, workflow automation.
Permanent employment, working remotely from Accra, Ghana.
Lead an eight-person digital factory team responsible for the design, delivery, integration, and production operation of digital banking and business solutions.
• Led eKash integration with the Rwanda National Digital Payment System using ISO 20022, and PostBridge integration using ISO 8583 for interoperability and ATM access.
• Introduced Go for SMPP integration and Kafka for account-validation workflows and event-driven processing.
• Directed integrations for MTN Escrow liquidation and deposits, school-fees collection, and Dusangire Lunch school-feeding collections.
• Led online loan applications, Agency Banking, and automated loan provisioning aligned with IFRS 9.
• Introduced Agile delivery, CI/CD, and containerization practices; mentor engineers in architecture and system design.
Technologies: C#, ASP.NET Core, Go, Kafka, SQL Server, Redis, Docker, GitHub Actions, REST APIs, ISO 20022, ISO 8583, SMPP.