Tech Lead and Solutions Architect

Configured and deployed Gemini 2.5 Flash AI agent runtimes with MCP server tool augmentation. Built AI-to-AI pipelines to automate API documentation generation across 28 backend modules.

Engineered quality assurance for a production RAG pipeline using Flowise, OpenAI, and Qdrant. Designed a 66-question benchmark across 12 knowledge-base files, classified prompt injection, retrieval, and summarization failure modes, and proposed an auditor-agent architecture for clinical response safety.

Designed multi-system agentic saga orchestration with idempotent retries, compensating rollbacks, and distributed correlation tracing across Brain, Laravel, and Axiom. Integrated a multimodal AI agent using LiveKit WebRTC, Tavus, ElevenLabs, Azure OpenAI, and Qdrant retrieval across 200 knowledge-base documents.

Formalized a multi-phase agentic SDLC and built an evidence-based evaluation framework for multi-agent AI module outputs.

Led engineering work on video generation and transcription using multiple AI APIs. Mentored engineers and documented day-to-day processes and requirements.

Reworked asset-versioning algorithms to improve performance and implemented high-performance video compression algorithms in Java. Supported systems monitoring, observability, and new deployment pipelines for a monolithic application.

Built messaging, user-management, and security services with Spring Boot on AWS. Collaborated with remote multidisciplinary teams across Kenya, the Netherlands, Italy, Ukraine, and Brazil to deliver core platform capabilities.

Implemented API security with Tyk Gateway and a custom Golang plugin. Built messaging and SMS solutions using AWS SQS and SES, and managed RBAC and data-access security with Spring Boot and SpiceDB.

Integrated third parties through n8n and Kafka, deployed services using AWS components including SNS, SQS, CloudFront, SES, EKS, and ECR, and contributed to company-wide API versioning standards. Performed production performance profiling and supported security and GDPR requirements.

Led Java performance engineering for TurnQuest and managed engineering OKRs. Built reusable internal libraries and refactored a large legacy Oracle ADF and PL/SQL codebase of approximately one million lines of code.

Created an integration testing framework for TurnQuest GIS, led a team of six engineers, hired and trained new engineers, and participated in design and code reviews. Worked with clients, delivery teams, and product managers to understand business processes and coordinate delivery.

Developed APIs and third-party integrations while training engineers on insurance-domain knowledge.

Served as primary author and maintainer for three Android applications. Built a high-performance C# synchronization server supporting referential integrity between services and maintained automated C# and Java regression tests.

Introduced modern Android practices and libraries including Dagger 2, ButterKnife, RxJava 2, MVP, Retrofit, SQLBrite, and ConstraintLayout. Set up Jenkins CI to run Robolectric tests on every commit and worked in Agile Scrum teams using one-week sprints.

Maintained Doxygen documentation, authored a Play Framework polling application using Belgian electronic identity cards and USB card readers, wrote project specifications, and translated designer UI concepts into Android interfaces.

Worked as a Java, C#, and web engineer on the AIR Platform, supporting electronic information-return submissions for US health insurance coverage reporting.

Contributed to Java transmission code and C# ASP.NET spreadsheet-processing functionality. Designed, architected, and delivered the platform search mechanism while continuously refactoring, documenting, and testing the system.

Diagnosed Java performance issues involving concurrency and correctness and contributed to an Android application released on Google Play.

Worked as a PHP engineer on crop and livestock insurance systems for Acre Africa, supporting farmers across Kenya, Tanzania, India, Bangladesh, and Central Africa.

Developed functionality for premium calculation using weather-satellite data across crop-cycle stages such as germination, flowering, and harvest. Used Laravel, PHP 5.6, PostgreSQL, Redis, and an R instance for mathematical processing.

Coordinated a transition to Golang to gain concurrency, static typing, and tooling benefits. Designed fault-tolerant strategies for managing mutable server-resource state.

Reduced REST bandwidth consumption using FlatBuffers, implemented push notifications and messaging with Redis, migrated the product to AWS, and integrated third-party services including Mailgun.

Led a Microsoft SQL Server to OPC integration project to successful delivery.

Built a WCF Windows Service to provide a single interface for assets.

Built a PHP invoicing solution for a major Kenyan tour company.

The solution achieved approximately 1% downtime.