Software Engineering
Enterprise web and mobile applications with the REST API layer beneath them, engineered for handover and long-term maintenance rather than guarded as private territory.
Open to opportunities · Kenya · GMT+3 · Remote-friendly
Martin Mbithi Nzilani
Software engineer in public-sector digital transformation, enterprise application development and secure cloud systems. Thirteen government platforms now in production, carrying public money, statutory records and the services residents depend on. Eight years of that work across government, an NGO and private product teams, currently digitising county services at Makueni, backed by an MSc in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics.
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Python · PHP · Java
Laravel · Django · Spring Boot
AWS · Google Cloud
Kubernetes · Docker
PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB
REST · Microservices
Linux · CI/CD
Cybersecurity · Digital Forensics
// core competencies
Core competencies across engineering, cloud and cybersecurity
County treasuries, procurement offices and private product teams have handed me the same brief in different words: make it work, make it hold under audit and load, and make it something the next engineer can pick up.
Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
Cloud infrastructure, container orchestration and CI/CD deployment pipelines on AWS and Google Cloud, provisioned for workloads that are not permitted to go dark.
Cybersecurity
Secure software development, system audits, hardened authentication and least-privilege access control, formalised by an MSc in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics.
Data & Systems Integration
Database design and query optimisation across SQL and NoSQL stores, plus the API integrations linking county systems to banks and payment gateways.
8+
Years in software engineering
18
Production systems delivered or maintained
13
Public-sector platforms engineered
3,000+
Users across 11 county departments
MSc
Cyber Security & Digital Forensics, BSc Computer Science