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Festus Koech

@festuskoech1

AI-focused software engineer building production-grade agentic systems, infrastructure, and full-stack applications end-to-end.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can ship end-to-end AI systems—agentic apps, real-time pipelines, and production infrastructure—while keeping quality high. I want deep ownership, fast feedback, and room to scale models responsibly.

I build production-grade AI systems end-to-end—from “Kubernetes clusters and real-time data pipelines” to agentic applications and deep learning models running in live environments. I learn by shipping, and I’m driven by turning models into reliable products.

In three years, entirely self-directed, I’ve shipped an adaptive agentic AI tutor serving 1,500+ students, a real-time AI exam supervision system handling 500 concurrent sessions, a VoIP AI call interception system, and a voice-controlled agentic robotic car. I co-lead this work as Co-Founder & Lead Engineer of Elimika AI (2025–Present), owning product vision through architecture, infrastructure, and deployment with 100% uptime.

I also progressed to Mid-Level Software Developer at Martial Jenga Labs, building the Elimika365 proctoring pipeline with computer vision, pose estimation, and a custom behavioural ML model—plus continuous retraining and automated model promotion. Alongside engineering, I’ve taught in an AI Engineering Bootcamp and mentored others through Python and real-world AI implementation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Peer Teacher, AI Engineering Bootcamp

Current

Martial Jenga Labs

Sep 2025 - Present (9 months)

Co-taught an AI Agents class covering LangChain, LangGraph, and production-grade agent system design. Mentored students through Python and ML implementation and contributed to advanced curriculum design.

Lang Chain LangGraph Python Machine Learning Agentic AI Design Prompt Engineering Mentoring Curriculum Design Software Architecture Production Engineering

Current

Mid-Level Software Developer

Current

Martial Jenga Labs

May 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Built an AI exam supervision system (real-time proctoring) for Elimika365 handling 500 concurrent sessions using computer vision, pose estimation, and a behavioral ML model. Implemented per-student calibration to reduce false positives and set up real-time alerting and continuous model retraining with automated promotion.

fastAPI LangGraph YOLO MediaPipe FaceMesh OpenCV Redis Celery

Current

Co-Founder & Lead Engineer

Current

Elimika AI

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Owned product vision, architecture, and production deployment for an adaptive agentic AI tutor serving 1,500+ students with 100% uptime. Provisioned Azure infrastructure from scratch and shipped real-time, multi-source content adaptation with ML model lifecycle and observability.

LangGraph Kubernetes PyTorch fastAPI Qdrant Redis Azure Container Apps CI CD

Current

Freelance Developer

Current

Events Zawadi

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Built and continued development of a social gifting platform with event creation, wishlists, social connections, pledging, and purchasing. Implemented surprise-preserving gifting logic where pledge activity is hidden until the gift is revealed, supporting end-to-end real-time user experiences.

Next.js TypeScript TailwindCSS WebSockets BullMQ Redis PostgreSQL Docker Azure Blob Storage

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Self-Directed Learning

Self-Directed Learning, Software Engineering

Activities and societies: Over 75% of practical knowledge is self-taught; 10–15 hours daily focused engineering practice.

Ongoing self-directed learning focused on building production-level knowledge through engineering practice. Uses resources including YouTube technical deep-dives, official documentation, open-source communities, and the Elimika AI platform.