Albina Muturi
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
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About
I am a Senior Fullstack Engineer with 7+ years of professional experience. I have a strong background in modern web development with extensive knowledge in React.js, Next.js, Typescript, JavaScript, Node.js, Databases and AI Automation tools. I am consistently acknowledged for establishing best practices for quality assurance and delivering high-quality customer-centric products. I am also an educator in the tech space with multiple technical articles and technical talks to my name.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer at NATHAN & NATHAN DIGITAL - DUBAI (2024-01 – 2025-06)
- Led a team of 3 Engineers to create and publish 3 SaaS ERP systems.
- Incorporated websockets for real-time data updates in a CRM chat feature, reducing message latency by 20% and increasing user engagement by 40% within the first 4 months.
- Introduced white boarding tools (MIRO) that improved team collaboration efficiency by 60%, leading to a reduction in project turnaround time from 6 weeks to 2 weeks.
Lead Software & QA Engineer at POWER LEARN PROJECT - NAIROBI (2021-09 – 2024-01)
Lead Software & QA Engineer for a learning management system (SaaS) that currently hosts 17,000+ students across 5 African countries.
- Streamlined the CI/CD pipeline for web applications (React/Next.js/Node.js), resulting in a 70% decrease in deployment errors and enabling a 90% faster turnaround for feature releases.
- Oversaw the execution of unit, E2E, functional, and integration tests, contributing to a 100% increase in test coverage and a 40% decrease in time-to-release.
Senior Software Engineer at THE GOOD COMPANY - REMOTE (2025-05 – 2026-04)
- Incorporated payment integrations using Stripe and M-Pesa for local and international payments.
- Introduced Design Patterns to streamline coding practices. The architecture now guarantees code reusability, standardization, flexibility, and efficiency.
- Automated ticket routing and PR reviewing using n8n and Git workflows.
Software Engineer I at ADANIAN LABS - NAIROBI (2019-07 – 2021-10)
- Founding-Software engineer for Savabyte. Managed to build the product from ground up within 3 months to provide a proof of concept.
- Designed and documented system design & microservices architectures for 2 startups (Savabyte and Sports Kwacha) alongside 1 system engineer and 1 backend engineer.
- Managed 2 user-facing Applications guaranteeing their mobile responsiveness and PWA abilities.
