Adams.

About

Engineer. Builder.
Nairobi to the world.

I'm a software engineer who cares about building things that work well and last. Over the past 8 years I've worked on everything from IoT platforms serving remote communities across Africa, to legal-tech and machine learning infrastructure for clients globally.

I'm most comfortable in the backend — designing systems that are reliable, fast, and easy to maintain. But I've shipped full products end-to-end and I'm comfortable doing whatever it takes to get something into production.

LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗
Based in
Nairobi, Kenya
Speciality
Backend · APIs · AI tools
Full-stack capable
Status
Available
For roles & consulting

What I do

Areas of expertise.

Backend systems

I build the engines that power products — APIs, data pipelines, and services that stay reliable when things get busy.

PythonDjangoFastAPINode.jsPostgreSQLRESTful APIs

Cloud & infrastructure

I deploy and scale systems on cloud platforms, containerise workloads, and set up the pipelines that ship code safely.

AWSGCPDockerKubernetesCI/CD

AI & intelligent tools

I integrate large language models and build tools that help people work smarter — from document search to decision support.

LLMsGenerative AIData pipelinesMachine learning APIs

Full-stack products

I can take a product from blank canvas to live — frontend included. I've shipped complete applications used by real customers.

ReactNext.jsVue.jsTypeScript

Experience

Where I've worked.

Senior Software EngineerAngaza
Nov 2023 — Present · Nairobi, Kenya

Angaza makes pay-as-you-go technology for off-grid energy companies across Africa.

  • Led the migration of a billing system serving thousands of off-grid energy customers, making it possible to accept payments from a wider range of sources.
  • Helped test critical payment and messaging systems during a major platform upgrade.
AWSCelerySQSTerraformFlaskReactRedisRabbitMQPayment integrationsBash
Software Engineer IIFraym
Jan 2022 — Nov 2023 · Remote · United States

Fraym provides hyperlocal population data to governments and organisations tackling global development challenges.

  • Built an automated pipeline that processes and stores large geographic datasets, making customer reports significantly faster to generate.
  • Redesigned the cloud infrastructure powering Fraym's machine learning tools — cutting processing time by more than half.
  • Built a set of task APIs that made it easier for other teams to integrate their tools with Fraym's platform.
AWSPostgreSQLPython 3FastAPIVue 3Step FunctionsS3Parquet
Team Lead, Automation EngineeringERM Libryo
Jan 2020 — Dec 2022 · Remote · United Kingdom

Libryo (acquired by ERM) helps organisations stay on top of legal and regulatory requirements.

  • Led the team that built automated systems for collecting legal regulations from thousands of websites — cutting processing time by 50%.
  • Solved a reliability problem in the web crawler that was crashing on large documents; rebuilt it to process 600MB+ of content without issues.
  • Wrote technical documentation that made it easier for the team to maintain and extend the ingestion systems over time.
TypeScriptPythonPlaywrightAWS ECS
Software EngineerDirectcore Technologies
Jun 2015 — Oct 2018 · Nairobi, Kenya

Directcore is an end-to-end IT solutions provider specialising in telecoms products and services across multiple verticals in Africa.

  • Built and maintained CRM dashboards used by internal teams to manage customer accounts and service workflows.
  • Worked across the stack — from Linux server configuration to database design and frontend interfaces.
  • Delivered projects spanning web applications and mobile clients for clients in telecoms and enterprise sectors.
DjangoLaravelSpring BootAngularIonicMySQLMSSQLLinux
Software EngineerEED Advisory
Nov 2018 — Dec 2020 · Nairobi, Kenya

EED Advisory is a Pan-African consulting firm working in energy, water, and climate change.

  • Connected 20 different types of smart sensors and meters to the platform, each communicating in a different protocol.
  • Built the platform that collected and showed real-time energy and water data from 150+ devices deployed across Africa.
  • Designed the system that collected data from field devices and turned it into live dashboards for engineers and decision-makers.
PythonDjangoNode.jsVue 3RabbitMQDocker

Projects

Things I've built.

Contact

Let's work together.

Whether you have a project in mind, a role to fill, or just want to talk through a technical problem — my inbox is open.

adamsokode@gmail.com+254 107 307 596