Ian Kariithi

Developing and maintaining production React Native features for a large-scale mobile application serving a major global corporation. Collaborate in an agile team to deliver high-quality, performant UI components and contribute to code reviews and architectural discussions.

Co-architected the Humani.ai cross-platform app (Flutter), taking it from concept to beta release within 6 months. Built social community features and AI-powered chat with real-time WebSocket messaging, and implemented secure onboarding/auth flows that reduced sign-up drop-off by 15%.

Reduced rider navigation errors by 20% by integrating precise geolocation and mapping, saving an average of 75 meters per trip. Increased user engagement by 19% by modernizing the legacy UI, and built a background notification system for real-time order tracking with a 99.9% delivery success rate of location updates.

Increased user adoption by 28% by implementing a custom translation engine to support Siswati, syncing dynamically with the backend. Raised code coverage from 4% to 65% by establishing strict testing protocols and mentoring a team of three developers.

Raised the crash-free user rate from 68% to 99%, contributing to a 20% increase in Monthly Active Users (MAU). Built an in-house credit scoring engine using an ObjectBox SMS data pipeline (replacing a volatile third-party provider) and maintained a fully automated peer-to-peer lending platform serving 40,000 users.

Audited the Insight Isecure app and advised leadership to halt development due to critical security vulnerabilities, preventing $110k in sunk costs. Conducted mobile code quality and security assessments, delivering a roadmap to realign the project with business requirements.

Grade: Second-class honors (upper division)

Earned a BSc in Information Technology, specializing in software development, and graduated with second-class honors (upper division).

Completed a short program in Mobile Software Development & Entrepreneurship (Android).