About Me
I'm Mike, a fullstack software engineer, data scientist and cloud engineer based in Nairobi.
With a Master's degree in Data Science, an undergraduate degree in Informatics and Computer Science and 10+ years of programming and building apps, I am well versed for your IT needs. My major strengths are mobile app development, web design & web development, ui/ux design, desktop app development and many more. I also specialize in helping startups grow their businesses.
My Capabilities
Your website is often the first conversation you have with a customer, and a dated one makes you look out of touch before you've said a word.
I design and build sites that look sharp, load fast and turn visitors into enquiries. Clients include a regional cancer centre, a premium car-care brand, a fashion label and a leading TV and radio presenter. This site is one of mine too.
Beyond marketing sites, I build the web applications businesses run on: property management, multi-country payroll, hospital and lab systems, dealer management and event ticketing.
I work in TypeScript with Angular, SvelteKit and React, on Node.js, Firebase and Google Cloud, and I integrate the services Kenyan businesses rely on, such as M-Pesa, Paystack and KRA eTIMS. With 10+ years of experience, I take products from first sketch to production, and keep them running.
A good app puts your business in your customers' pockets, so they can pay, book or get help in a few taps.
I build iOS and Android apps from one codebase with Flutter and Ionic, and installable web apps (PWAs) when the app stores are more than you need. Recent work includes tenant apps for paying rent and an on-demand app that connects hospitals with biomedical engineers.
Design is how your product works, not just how it looks. When people find what they need without thinking, they stay, they buy and they come back.
I design for complex products: the customer experience for a cloud banking platform, dashboards for property managers and car dealerships, and a hospital system with 445 screens across 33 user roles. I design and build, so nothing gets lost in the handover.
Most businesses already have the data to make better decisions. It's just scattered, stale or stuck in spreadsheets.
With a Master's in Data Science, I turn that data into dashboards, search and AI features people actually use. I helped build audio fingerprinting that detects when Kenyan artists' songs play on the radio, added natural-language property search with Gemini, and built tools for viewing and annotating gigapixel pathology slides.
The most expensive software is the wrong software. I help founders and businesses decide what to build, what to buy and what to skip.
That covers architecture and stack choices, cloud setup, integrations with payment, tax and health systems, and code reviews. I've made these calls as lead engineer on property, payroll and healthcare platforms and as director of Bitty n Bit. You'll get a straight answer, even when it isn't the one you hoped for.
