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Joseph Michuki

@josephmichuki

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Backend engineer building scalable APIs, data platforms, and automation.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I seek backend or platform roles focused on scalable APIs, data platforms, strong CI/CD, observability, and collaborative remote-first teams where I can drive reliability and mentor engineers.

I am a backend engineer with 7+ years designing and scaling distributed systems, developer platforms, and AI-powered backend services. I specialize in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, building APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, automation tooling, and resilient cloud-native architectures that prioritize performance and reliability.

Throughout my career I have delivered production services for property reservation and healthcare domains, improved deployment velocity and reliability through CI/CD and containerization, and led observability and testing initiatives. I enjoy mentoring engineers, optimizing systems for high traffic and fault tolerance, and integrating AI-driven tools to enhance developer productivity.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

Current

Griffin Global Technologies

Oct 2023 - Present (2 years 8 months)

Designed and scaled backend services using Python and TypeScript to power property reservations, payments, and customer portals; implemented JWT auth, queue-based workflows, and serverless AWS Lambda pipelines for high-traffic transactions.

Python TypeScript PostgreSQL AWS Lambda S3 RDS JWT Serverless APIs

Senior Software Engineer

Kazilane

Dec 2022 - Sep 2023 (9 months)

Migrated legacy systems to a modern TypeScript/React stack and architected Python/Django backend services; implemented containerized deployments and CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 35% and failures by 50%.

TypeScript React Python Django Docker CI CD Loki Grafana Monitoring

Software Engineer

Savannah Informatics

Aug 2018 - Dec 2022 (4 years 4 months)

Developed a HIPAA-compliant AI chatbot and maintained Python microservices for high-volume transactions, improving system performance by 30% through caching, concurrency handling, and database optimizations.

Python Microservices PostgreSQL Caching Concurrency HIPAA Chatbot Performance Optimization Testing

Software Developer

Kodix Developers

Feb 2016 - Jul 2018 (2 years 5 months)

Contributed to SaaS infrastructure uptime and performance monitoring to meet 24/7 availability targets and improved reliability via comprehensive unit testing and company-wide documentation standards.

Pytest Testing Monitoring Reliability Documentation CI CD