
El potato Slayer
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 5+ years building fintech, agri-tech, and healthtech platforms. Leverage AI-assisted development workflows; including Claude Code for debugging, code review, and system design to ship faster and maintain higher code quality. Experienced building and deploying AI agents to automate workflows and reduce manual engineering overhead.
Experience
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer (Senior Full-Stack Engineer) at MDzuri (2025-02 – Present)
Co-founded and built a telemedicine platform as part of a 3-person engineering team, owning the product from planning through production deployment.
- Leveraged Claude Code throughout the development lifecycle from API design and boilerplate generation to code review and consistency enforcement, accelerating early build phases and maintaining quality standards without a dedicated QA engineer.
- Led technical planning and system design, translating healthcare and operational requirements into scalable backend and frontend architectures.
- Designed and built core platform services in NestJS and Next.js covering auth, appointment scheduling, and patient workflows.
- Conducted peer code reviews, enforced coding standards, and evaluated trade-offs to maintain long-term code quality.
- Sole owner of Docker-based deployment pipeline, managing all staging and production releases
- Wrote automated test suite with 80% coverage, cutting manual QA time during sprint releases
Javascript Developer at Last Mile (2023-09 – 2024-09)
- Integrated geolocation services connecting farmers to nearby sellers and events, improving platform relevance for rural users across 3 regions
- Built inventory management system tracking agricultural stock levels in real time, reducing overselling incidents for marketplace sellers.
- Implemented data analytics and reporting tools surfacing insights into product trends, user behavior, and market demand for sellers and platform stakeholders.
React and Ruby on Rails developer at BNY mellon (2020-08 – 2023-07)
Developed and maintained production-grade Ruby on Rails and React applications in a large distributed codebase.
- Led Scout APM integration across production, staging, and test environments, reducing overhead and improving response times, giving Rails teams actionable performance insights
- Implemented and integrated RabbitMQ messages to enable asynchronous processing and event-driven workflows, improving system scalability, resilience, and fault isolation.
- Improved messaging Queues and background Jobs processing to surface performance bottlenecks early in staging and test environments, which led to more predictable response times in production.
- Performed code reviews and contributed to architectural discussions to improve code quality.
Education
Bachelor of Information Technology in Information Technology – Makerere University (2022-09)

