Newton Black

Sole architect and developer of a production SaaS platform automating academic progression for Kenyan universities, live-piloting at DeKUT School of Engineering with 2,300+ validated student records. Owns the full stack end-to-end including Next.js/React frontend, Node.js/MongoDB backend, Auth0/JWT security, and self-managed VPS infrastructure.

Built and maintained UiPath RPA workflows and automated QA test coverage for production systems.

Transcribed native Swahili audio across multiple regional varieties for speech recognition and language model training projects. Applied consistent conventions for speaker attribution, disfluencies, and non-speech events, and made orthographic judgment calls on dialectal and code-switched speech.

Built and maintained high-traffic MERN stack applications (10,000+ users); integrated M-Pesa Daraja payments and Auth0 with JWT/OAuth2 authentication. Integrated OpenAI Whisper (voice-to-text) into a production blockchain PWA.

Trained, evaluated, and tested AI model outputs for accuracy, safety, and helpfulness across a wide range of conversational tasks. Applied structured evaluation rubrics and style-guide conventions consistently across high task volumes under deadline pressure.

Built a full-stack concert ticketing system (React.js, Django, M-Pesa API) handling registration, payment, and automated ticket delivery.

Completed a Certificate in Software Engineering, gaining practical software development skills.

Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, completing the program in 2021.