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Erick Onyango

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Senior backend engineer at SafeBoda building NestJS event processors and service-oriented systems across identity, dispatch, and payments.

Kenya
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At SafeBoda, I build NestJS event processors on Kafka and BullMQ for driver earnings, loyalty points, automated suspension, and SOS coordination. I also contribute across identity, dispatch, payments, notifications, and internal tooling.

I developed SafeBoda’s notification platform for push, SMS, WhatsApp, and email, and rewrote its identity and access service from Node.js to Elixir/Phoenix. That work added a GraphQL API, JWT/TOTP authentication, and token blacklisting, cutting auth latency and closing session-fixation vulnerabilities.

For KesiHub, I built the chat API in Go and designed its real-time message path through PostgreSQL, Redis Streams, and Phoenix Channels. I also built Verity, an AI assistant that answers questions from firm documents with citations, and brought the Next.js web app and Flutter mobile app to feature parity.

Across other projects, I’ve shipped Elixir payment and identity services, including an escrow engine with Paystack and M-Pesa integrations, and designed back-pressured pipelines for an AI image-generation platform. At Mindful Care, I built Elixir/Phoenix patient and clinical tools supporting online scheduling and telehealth.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

IM

Software Engineer

ImagineAPI

Oct 2024 - Feb 2025 (4 months)

Built a real-time AI image generation platform routing prompts to MidJourney. Designed back-pressured pipelines using Redis Streams and GenStage.

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Full Stack Engineer

Mindful Care

Jan 2018 - Dec 2021 (3 years 11 months)

Architected and maintained patient-facing web platform and internal clinical tools in Elixir/Phoenix with LiveView. Built integration adapters for EHR, CRM and telehealth systems.

AI

Aflatoun Trainer

Aflatoun International

Jan 2016 - Dec 2020 (4 years 11 months)

Volunteer trainer for Aflatoun International, a global NGO focused on social and financial education.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Meru University of Science and Technology logoMT

Meru University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

2013 - 2017

Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, focusing on the application of computing technologies to solve real-world problems.

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Kenya

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