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Ian Bwana

@ianbwana

I build AI-powered full-stack products, scalable platforms, and automation that improves engagement, reliability, and delivery.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build AI-powered products and scalable platforms where I can lead engineering teams, improve reliability, automate complex workflows, and deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.

I've built AI-powered product features and production platforms for Priv and Route.Money, integrating Claude, GPT-4o, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows into customer and operational experiences.

At Route.Money, I led eight engineers building a microservices-based marketing and payments platform, increasing uptime by 30%. My AI personalization work improved user engagement and retention by 25%, while architecture standards and testing reduced bugs by 40%.

Previously, I developed an e-commerce application handling more than 30,000 monthly transactions, built ETL pipelines across eight data sources, and delivered integrations that generated $100,000 in revenue within three months.

I've also led mobile teams and modernized products with React Native, React, Python, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices. I enjoy creating reliable systems, mentoring engineers, and turning complex workflows into useful products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

Route.Money

Nov 2022 - Mar 2026 (3 years 4 months)

Led a team of 8 engineers building a scalable, microservices-based marketing and payments platform, increasing service uptime by 30% and improving customer success. Designed and shipped production AI capabilities, including LLM-powered features and RAG pipelines, driving a 25% boost in user engagement and retention.

Microservices AI LLM RAG Pgvector GPT 4o Claude React Native Flutter Architecture Testing Mentorship

Senior Software Engineer

Community Phone Organization

Dec 2021 - Oct 2022 (10 months)

Developed an e-commerce web application handling over 30,000 transactions monthly and created an ETL data pipeline consolidating data from eight sources. Implemented a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing, improving deployment efficiency by 75% and reducing bug deployments by 90%.

React Native For Web Python Django ETL Retool GitHub Actions Docker CI CD MVNE

Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead, Mobile)

Sky.Garden

Dec 2020 - Nov 2021 (11 months)

Led a team of 11 building, maintaining, and testing four React Native applications powering the company's e-commerce-as-a-service core product. Pioneered a custom UI library and built a shipping and delivery application to streamline logistics operations.

React Native React Native For Web Electron UI Libraries Code Review Testing Leadership

Software Engineer (Fullstack)

Sky.Garden

Dec 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years)

Converted an outdated jQuery-based site into a modern React + Redux application, improving performance and maintainability. Designed and implemented a push-notification service and built a custom CMS for banner and ad management.

React Redux Redis Firebase CMS Facebook API Push Notifications

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Priv

Building AI-augmented product features on Anthropic Claude, integrating LLM-driven workflows and agentic capabilities into a production React Progressive Web App and NestJS services. Architecting the full-stack platform across NestJS, Next.js, and a React PWA, backed by MySQL and Redis.