Software Engineer II at Abstract Machines, Paris · Remote from Nairobi, Kenya
I debug PCB traces, PLC ladder logic, and Go goroutines in the same week.
Most hardware engineers can't read a goroutine trace. Most software engineers can't read a schematic. I do both — and I've shipped proof of each.
One of six pioneers of Kenya's first student rocket program. One of two engineers who built the Global South's first working direct air capture machine. Now building WASM orchestrators that run on $4 microcontrollers.
- Systems & Edge:
- Web & Data:
- Infra & Security:
- Hardware:
- Propeller — WebAssembly orchestrator for the EU ELASTIC project. <10ms boot, 24 concurrent WASM instances on a $4 ESP32-S3, TEE-backed workload migration across trust boundaries, federated learning pipeline that compiles sklearn classifiers into ARM-deployable WASM binaries.
- Cube AI — Confidential LLM inference inside AMD SEV-SNP / Intel TDX hardware enclaves. <10% throughput overhead vs unprotected baseline. OpenAI-compatible API for LLaMA, Mistral, and Qwen.
- Scripli — Human authorship certificate platform, built solo. Behavioral text classifier, cryptographic certificate pipeline, LTI 1.3 institutional integration. Users in Kenya, Nigeria, Georgia, South Africa, US, Australia, and Germany.
- Magistrala — 570+ commits to a 30-service Go platform with 2.5k+ GitHub stars. 400+ active deployments across Nokia, Ericsson, Intel, and 13+ global partners. Owns: Bootstrap security (patched critical SQL injection), billing event-store middleware, SpiceDB access control extensions, full Kubernetes pipeline — Helm, FluxCD, Flagger canary rollouts, Velero backup.
- Radar — arXiv IR pipeline in Go. Parallel per-paper NLP extraction and cross-document synthesis across 50+ papers per run.
radar build <N>generates full project briefs. - Swarm — Multi-agent market simulator. 15 concurrent trader personas with distinct strategies, two-round debate model, emergent consensus tracking.
- 8+ PCBs fabricated for industrial sensing, IoT, and edge compute
- ESP32-C6, SIM7080G NB-IoT, Wireless M-Bus, BeagleV-Fire RISC-V
- Zephyr RTOS board bring-up, TIA Portal / PLC programming, sensor fusion
- S0 and S1 IoT gateways at Abstract Machines shipping to industrial deployments
- IBM Call for Code — Regional Winner, MEA (2021) · 500,000+ developers, 180 nations
- Huawei Seeds for the Future — 2nd Runners-up, Kenya (2021) · gamified AI for early cataract detection in children
- 3 international PCT patents (WIPO, 2025) · direct air capture technologies
