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David Kwoba

@davidkwoba

Platform and backend engineer at Savannah Informatics Limited who cut cloud compute spend by ~80% through a bare-metal migration.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I’m based in Nairobi and available for remote, asynchronous work.

At Savannah Informatics Limited, I co-led a bare-metal migration of communication, messaging relay, and analytics services from AWS and GCP to self-managed Hetzner infrastructure, cutting cloud compute spend by ~80%. I also traced production outages to connection handling issues and restored health CRM pipelines for 417,440 beneficiary profiles within 2.5 hours.

As co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Uwiano Africa, I’m architecting a county-level health data platform covering all 47 Kenyan counties. I’ve built its Python ingest and validation pipeline, PostgreSQL and dbt warehouse, Django API, and Next.js web app.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Current

Uwiano Africa

Oct 2026 - Present (0 months)

Architect a county-level health data platform covering all 47 Kenyan counties, with Python ingest, PostgreSQL/dbt warehouse, Superset dashboards, Django API, and Next.js web app.

Python PostgreSQL DBT Apache Superset Django Next.js Docker Compose GitHub Actions Gitleaks Ruff Shellcheck Bandits Pip Audit NPM Audit Trivy Content Security Policy (CSP)Budget Performance

Current

Platform and Backend Engineer

Current

Savannah Informatics Limited

Feb 2026 - Present (8 months)

Cut cloud compute spend by ~80% via bare-metal migration, ended nightly production outages, and restored health CRM pipelines for 417,440 beneficiary profiles within 2.5 hours.

Kubernetes PostgreSQL PG Bouncer OpenTofu Nftables APISIX Talos Hetzner AWS GCP Cloudflare Kafka Redis Sentry Grafana Alloy Django Python Incident Response Performance Optimization Observability

Platform and Backend Engineer Intern

Savannah Global Health Institute

Sep 2025 - Jan 2026 (4 months)

Secured Digital Public Infrastructure services with Keycloak and OpenFGA, standardized delivery with ArgoCD and Helm, and added observability with OpenTelemetry.

Keycloak OpenFGA Teleport ArgoCD Helm Gitlab CI OpenTelemetry Docker Kubernetes

Research Assistant

Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Lab

Mar 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper and poster by running formative interviews and modeling relational metadata networks of 1,000+ social media posts in Python.

Python Networkx Research Data Modeling

Stanford African Service Fellow

Human Rights and Health NGO

Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 (2 months)

Rebuilt the emergency health services platform on Django REST Framework and PostgreSQL, cutting form submission latency from 8s to 1.2s and raising data entry throughput by 65%.

Django REST Framework PostgreSQL Python Performance Optimization

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Stanford University

Bachelor of Science, Symbolic Systems

2019 - 2024

Activities and societies: Stanford Award of Excellence 2024, Stanford African Service Fellow, Leland Program Scholar, Ernest Houston Johnson Scholar

B.S. in Symbolic Systems with a focus on human-computer interaction and statistics. Awarded the Stanford Award of Excellence 2024 and named a Stanford African Service Fellow.