thomas kidumbuyo

• Built an AI-first ERP platform from the ground up, delivering six integrated business applications for SMEs.
• Developed high-performance frontends with Angular/TypeScript and backend microservices in Rust and Go.
• Integrated AI capabilities using OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, LangChain, RAG, AI agents, and tool calling.
• Implemented LLMOps with MLflow for model evaluation, prompt management, and

- Refactored code, reducing daily alerts by 95% and enabling engineers to focus on productive tasks
- Decreased response time per mobile money transaction by 1 minute and reduced peak-hour load by half by redesigning payment services in all the mobile money payment micro-services using kafka to communicate between services and queueing.
- Developed CI/CD pipeline, reducing feature delivery time b

- I spent a very short time in this job, my main role was to Mentor local engineers for skill enhancement and team productivity.
- I introduced DevOps tools like CI/CD, Infrastructure as code and much more.
- Improved the system design of their projects.
- Created client dashboard for an online newspaper platform, streamlining subscription management.
- Collaborated with in-house web designers to

● Facilitated the integration of two software systems after a company acquisition
● Developed software used for polling for 2022 United States senate elections.
● Developed complex software and systems deploying one or more programming languages

• Managed a team of 6 engineers, leading to the successful acquisition of six major data collection contracts.
• Led a team of engineers to successfully complete a major software project on time and within budget
• Developed a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that reduced time-to-deployment from 4 days to less than an hours

I built an internal system for paper distribution for the Mwananchi communication group in Tanzania.
Developed the web API with Node.js and Express.js.
The database was a Postgres database.
Development of front-end was done by Angular 2+ using Typescript. Deployment was done on a Linux server since the project was served internally. I used a Nginx with pm2 to serve the Node application.

I created software to be use on marketing campaigns. Each campaign would have its own web and mobile app depending on the needs of the particular campaign.

After a legislation was passed that required all websites in Tanzania to have Swahili translations, I created a quick solution for this problem. The project is a proxy server that translates websites before submitting them to the client. It has a web scrapper created with Python and Beautiful Soup to scrape all the words in the website. Translations of the scrapped words are provided and fed to th

I build a system to track down wining beer crowns in a lottery where people could find winning numbers in the crowns of their beers.
The system was created with angular and node in the backend, testing was done by jest.
I used Heroku to deploy the software. The CI/CD was done automatically and the system was put in an automatically expanding Dyno while the database used was MongoDB

• Created software solutions for diverse clients across various industries
• Provided on-boarding training, consultation, and customer support services.
• Developed REST APIs and implemented authentication protocols, such as OAuth, to securely expose data to clients
• Developed and maintained software in multiple programming. languages, such as PHP, Python, and JavaScript

• Oversaw all of the company's online presence, built websites, blogs, and managed online interactions.

• Designed and developed a scalable, high-availability web application that handled thousands of users with minimal downtime.

I was responsible for overseeing all of the company’s online presence which included their numerous websites, blogs and social media accounts.
I created applications for event sign-ups, polling, blogging, and plain static websites among other tasks.
During my time here, my preferred platforms were PHP with Laravel and CodeIgniter on the small websites and Python with Django on the systems.

I was put in charge in the development of Wasafi music App. i developed both the mobile app and the web application.

• Created a music streaming app for Wasafi music.

I provided consultation and created software solutions for various small businesses among them being a popular nationwide music streaming application (Wasafi Music).
Started as part of a team of four developers and progressed towards to a leadership role that consisted of delegating tasks and monitoring the team’s day-to-day progress.

Bachelor Project: "Internet powered surveillance drone"

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