Ron Timothy

Software Engineer with a deep passion for systems architecture, designing how components fit together, how data flows, and how infrastructure holds up under real-world conditions.

Experienced across the full stack: backend systems, frontend interfaces, mobile applications, and infrastructure. Has delivered complete products independently and in small teams, from idea to production, across healthtech, mobility, edtech, fintech, and enterprise systems. Comfortable taking a product from database schema design all the way to a deployed, user-facing experience, with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability.

IT Apprentice - iServe Africa / Church Army Africa

(2025-09 - 2026-08)

• Embedded within the IT department of Church Army Africa, providing hands-on technical support across the organisation and its affiliated college.
• Administer 2 on-premise production servers, a firewall, and a gateway handling port routing, alongside a multi-site network of 8+ switches and dedicated routers across multiple buildings.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware, networking, and connectivity incidents end-to-end, from initial triage through to resolution and documentation.
• Identified operational gaps and built two internal systems: ARTAS (academic records & transcript automation) and an IT Helpdesk & Resource Management System.

Software Engineer (Volunteer) - CodeYetu

(2024-07)

• Serve as DevOps lead and full-stack engineer across two production platforms, a STEM education platform, and a hackathon management system, having executed 65+ deployments with consistent release reliability.
• Ship features end-to-end across both platforms, translating Figma designs into React interfaces and building backend APIs from requirements to deployment.
• Integrated M-Pesa Daraja APIs (STK Push, C2B, B2C), enabling secure payment workflows across multiple client applications.
• Implemented a caching layer for payment verification endpoints, reducing response times by 40% and improving platform reliability.
• Led root cause analysis on a critical production payment failure, coordinating with Safaricom support to restore live payment flow with minimal downtime.
• Contributed to infrastructure hardening, including WAF integration and DDoS mitigation strategies.

Software Engineer Intern - JHUB Africa

(2024-05 - 2024-07)

• Led end-to-end system architecture for the Smart Mushroom Project, bare-metal to application layer, connecting 2 microcontrollers and 5 IoT sensors via MQTT for real-time telemetry ingestion.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 40%, and containerized all services with Docker for consistent environments across development and production.
• Mentored and coordinated a team of 6 developers, conducting code reviews and aligning delivery with project milestones.

Freelance Software Engineer - Independent

(2024-06)

• Built Theralink: a therapy provider platform with goal tracking, progress indicators, Gemini AI integration, and an AWS-backed knowledge base, delivered as a two-person team.
• Built IdeaHub Africa: a complete innovator platform, solo using Next.js and Django, managing all architecture and delivery end-to-end.
• Currently maintaining and extending a client web application (Laravel, React-Vite), adding features and managing production stability on an ongoing basis.

BSc. - Computer Science - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology