Innocent Khaemba

Software engineer with 8+ years building highly-available, high-throughput backend systems, currently in a hands-on

technical lead role at Safaricom. Deep experience delivering multi-channel notification and messaging pipelines (USSD,

SMS, mobile, web) at telco scale, on event-driven, queue-based architectures using Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ. Strong

object-oriented foundation in Java and Spring Boot, with C#/.NET exposure, and a habit of owning features end-to-end

from design through implementation, validation and live-site operations against enterprise SLAs.

Independently architected and shipped Plugs, a production multi-category marketplace live on Google Play — 21 Spring

Boot microservices, two React Native apps and three Next.js frontends, with M-Pesa payments — acting as architect,

product owner and lead developer. Delivered largely through specification-driven AI-assisted development, where the

engineering value sits in system design, precise specification and rigorous verification of generated work. Proven in

production troubleshooting, incident response and reliability improvement, with security applied throughout via OAuth 2.0,

JWT and TLS/SSL in a regulated fintech environment.link