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Samuel Uzima

@uzimasam

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I build reliable Laravel and Vue.js platforms for payments, investments, SaaS, and event commerce.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to own end-to-end product systems where financial correctness, reliable integrations, scalable backend architecture, and production operations are core requirements.

I've re-architected investment workflows for Africa's Pocket, rebuilding its Laravel backend, PostgreSQL data model, financial processing engine, and API layer around correctness, reconciliation, and production reliability.

At GetPayd Technologies, I progressed from Payd payment services to leading backend engineering for Vabu. I architected VabuOS, a multi-tenant Laravel platform serving 2,000+ accounts across ticketing, event commerce, streaming, and payments, and built payment orchestration across M-Pesa, Stripe, Yellow Card, PesaPal, and HoneyCoin.

I work end to end, from schema and API design through Vue interfaces, deployment, monitoring, incident resolution, and zero-downtime migrations. I also led product delivery for Easy House Africa while coordinating a small engineering team and collaborating with design and business stakeholders.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Full-Stack Engineer & Team Lead

Current

Reduzer

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 7 months)

Re-architected the Laravel backend for a regulated Kenyan investment platform, rebuilding the PostgreSQL data model and financial processing engine. Designed a unit-allocation engine with strict ACID transactions and executed a production migration with reconciliation checks.

Laravel PHP PostgreSQL Vue.Js PHPUnit Redis Cloudflare GCP Terraform Docker Metabase M Pesa Webflow

Ecosystems Engineer to Lead Backend Engineer

GetPayd Technologies

Jan 2024 - Mar 2026 (2 years 2 months)

Progressed from building Payd's Laravel payment services to leading backend engineering for Vabu, architecting a multi-tenant Laravel 11 platform serving 2,000+ accounts. Designed a payment-orchestration layer across multiple providers and managed Docker Swarm deployments.

Laravel PHP Vue.Js PostgreSQL MySQL Redis fastAPI Python Docker Swarm Nginx GitHub Actions M Pesa Stripe REST APIs

Product Lead / Hands-on Full-Stack Engineer

Easy House Africa

Jul 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Led the development and deployment of the Easy House Africa web platform while remaining hands-on across backend, frontend and production delivery. Owned product direction from problem definition through release, coordinating a small engineering team.