I’m a software engineer with a rugged journey that’s gone on to make me.
I Started out chasing Biomedical Engineering at University that I would quickly drop for Software engineering with the fear of meeting Anatomy again in Biology - a subject I had dreaded throughout my earlier school years.
In my first year, I found myself handling basic to minor sysadmin tasks on Windows and Linux for fellow students who
often forgot to install antivirus software, accidentally deleted important files (a process I would later formally learn
to be ‘file recovery’), fixed drivers, troubleshot networking issues, and more. In essence, I was getting paid to learn.
Around my second year, growing up in a business-minded family, I started selling popcorn to students. It went alright. By year three, I ditched the popcorn and picked up Android Studio and NetBeans instead. The rest is an evolution story.
In my final year, I had gained knowledge to take on serious projects and contracts, the first being with the Ministry of Water and Environment to build a National Water Quality Management System. After graduation, I launched a startup Aratech aimed at solving agricultural problems back home with software. That lasted until I stumbled across a post from a company (Andela). They were looking for the top 1% of engineers in Africa and offering six months in Nairobi, training, and a chance to work with global teams, and best of all, travel. I applied.
I got in. The startup quietly faded.
Since then, I’ve worked with teams across the globe from the U.S. to Africa to Europe. I’ve built SDKs, backend systems, APIs(REST & GraphQL), internal tools, and customer-facing apps, etc. I’ve worked on platforms that deliver millions of push notifications and helped migrate data for entire businesses. I’ve written code across more stacks than I can count, some of it elegant, some of it held together by coffee and sheer luck.
And now, I live in Austin, Texas, raising a family, writing software, and still chasing the same curiosity that led me into tech in the first place. I travel back to Africa as often as I can.