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Philip Mwendwa

@philipmwendwa

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Full-stack engineer building end-to-end SaaS platforms across React, Node.js, AWS, and AI workflows.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to own end-to-end delivery for SaaS products—building reliable full-stack features with strong CI/CD, performance, and security, while using practical AI-assisted workflows in cloud-native environments.

I’m a full-stack engineer with 5+ years of experience delivering features end-to-end—from UI components to REST APIs to cloud deployment. I’ve shipped reliable, scalable software across both enterprise and startup environments, including high-traffic SaaS products.

In recent roles, I’ve led complex migrations and platform work, architecting production AWS stacks with React/TypeScript, Node.js services, Kong API gateway, GoTrue auth, and PostgreSQL. I also focus on code quality and operational reliability—integrating CI/CD improvements and tooling like SonarCloud to restore pipeline reliability.

I bring practical AI-assisted development into everyday engineering, including Gemini-powered pull request review automation and AI-assisted incident triage pipelines. My work also includes performance engineering, security hardening via least-privilege IAM, and production integrations such as Stripe payments and Azure OpenAI workflow intelligence.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Full-Stack & Platform Engineer

Current

Pixeledge

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Architecting and delivering an end-to-end migration of a SaaS project management platform to a production AWS stack. Building full-stack features with React/TypeScript and Node.js and implementing Gemini-powered PR review automation and CI/CD/code-quality improvements.

React TypeScript Node AWS ECR S3 IAM ALB Route 53 CodeBuild Kong API Gateway GoTrue Auth Wildcard SSL Certificate SonarCloud Vite Yarn Least Privilege IAM Sentry GitHub Actions Gemini API REST APIs Supabase

Senior Software Engineer

Griffin Global Technologies, LLC

Feb 2021 - Jun 2025 (4 years 4 months)

Led a full-stack performance initiative for a high-traffic web application, improving React frontend performance and restructuring Node.js/C# backend components. Developed integrations such as Stripe payments and Azure OpenAI, and supported code quality through cross-functional reviews and mentorship.

React JavaScript Node.Js Development C#.NET Core Indexing DTU Optimisation Stripe Audit Logging Azure OpenAI Prompt Engineering Code Review Mentorship

R&D Engineer

PayGo Energy

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year)

Built and maintained customer-facing features across React, React Native, and Node.js for the company’s IoT energy platform. Managed continuous build and deployment on Google Cloud Platform and performed fault tree analysis for hardware-software compatibility.

React React Native Node Google Cloud Platform CI CD Fault Trees IoT Platform Development

Software Automation Engineer

Ramco Group

Jul 2019 - Aug 2019 (1 month)

Developed automation workflows using Azure Logic Apps and Microsoft Kaizala custom action cards to support core business processes and data transfer. Implemented integrations across enterprise systems for automated processing.

Azure Logic Apps Kaizala Automation Custom Action Workflow Automation