Selected work.

JiraniSoko

2024 – Present · Django · React Native · M-Pesa Daraja · PostgreSQL

A neighbourhood marketplace for Kenyan urban communities. Listings, jobs, motors, and property, the categories people actually look for in places like Kilimani, Eldoret, or Kisumu. The pitch is local trust: posts come from your area, and payments go through M-Pesa rather than card rails most people don't have.

Backend is Django and PostgreSQL with the M-Pesa Daraja API for STK Push and B2C disbursements. Mobile is React Native via Expo. The Android build is in beta; iOS follows. Web admin runs on the same Django app for moderation and dispute resolution.

It's the project I think about most. It's also the one that's taught me the most about the gap between a feature working in a notebook and a feature that survives a Saturday afternoon of real users.

Multition Education

2024 – Present · Backend developer (freelance) · Django · PostgreSQL · Sentry · AWS

Multition is an AI-focused education platform with mentor-led courses across machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, and generative AI. Cohort enrolments and certificates on completion. I came on as a freelance backend developer and have been working on the Django and PostgreSQL side of the stack.

The platform serves 500+ students across 11+ courses, with 50+ certificates issued. Most of my work has sat in the course-and-cohort plumbing, the certificate generation pipeline, and instrumenting the backend with Sentry so the people running the platform actually know when something breaks.

Sunrise Drilling Limited

2024 – Present · Web developer (freelance) · Django · PostgreSQL · Grafana

Ongoing freelance work as the web developer for Sunrise Drilling, a Kenyan drilling company. Corporate site with dynamic services, a secure admin backend, and a Grafana dashboard for keeping an eye on traffic and uptime. The interesting parts are operational: making sure the team can update content without me, and that the site stays quiet when it should.

Earlier client work

2022 – 2024 · Django · HTML/CSS/JS · PostgreSQL

A handful of small but real client projects across two countries. Each one shipped to production, with auth, dynamic content, and a real database behind it.

• teddyvisuals.com, creative portfolio and media site for a visual studio.
• Mamafua Agency, service-business site with a custom request flow.

Less glamorous than the research, but this is the work that actually taught me deployment, monitoring, and the discipline of not breaking what already works.