Where I've shipped
Professional growth, technical contributions and the impact I've delivered across startups.
ByteBlock Technologies
Building tailored software solutions and digital strategies to help businesses thrive in the modern tech landscape.
Software Development Engineer
Full Stack Developer
- Developed and maintained a client-facing contract management platform for Technology Associates (Tanzania), implementing RBAC, role-based dashboards, contract lifecycle workflows, CRUD operations, data validation, and business logic automation across 10+ core application modules.
- Delivered 50+ merged pull requests through Git-based workflows, contributing to production-grade frontend and backend features using Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, and SQL, while improving maintainability through reusable components and structured API design.
- Designed and deployed a Dockerized CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, automating builds, deployment workflows and VPS releases, reducing deployment time from 45 minutes to under 3 minutes (~93% improvement).
- Built an automated cron-based notification and reminder engine for payment and maintenance alerts, integrating scheduled jobs, email delivery services and status-based notification handling.
- Deployed and integrated the Qwen 2.5 1.5B open-source LLM using vLLM on a VPS, exposing inference APIs to power an AI chatbot feature and demonstrating self-hosted LLM deployment in production.
- Managed end-to-end production deployment workflows including Docker containerization, environment configuration, database migrations, reverse-proxy configuration and VPS infrastructure optimization.
AssuredGig
Architecting the future of secure freelancing — connecting verified professionals with clients through intelligent, trust-first systems.
Full Stack Developer
- Engineered and scaled backend infrastructure from an early-stage prototype to a production-ready platform, developing RESTful APIs that powered core client–freelancer workflows including authentication, job management and transaction processing for 500 users.
- Designed and implemented a scalable backend architecture using Python, Django and Django REST Framework, building secure authentication flows, business logic layers, API endpoints and database integrations across 10+ core features.
- Deployed and maintained production infrastructure on AWS EC2, integrating Amazon S3 for static asset storage and delivery, reducing application server load by 20%.
- Optimized frontend performance and mobile responsiveness, increasing the Lighthouse mobile performance score from 35 to 75 (+114%).
- Developed and maintained 20+ API endpoints with structured error handling, validation and optimized request flows to improve reliability and scalability of the platform.
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