Ian Mugambi

Kenya (Hybrid)

The Daremit and Daremit Agent apps (iOS & Android) and web platform — a financial-services product handling real-money transactions, KYC/KYB compliance, and onboarding across regions.

• Built the Daremit and Daremit Agent Flutter apps end to end (iOS & Android), live on the App Store and Google Play.
• Built internal transaction, wallet, and onboarding APIs in Spring Boot (Java).
• Integrated the payment providers Vi Americas and Money International server-side for live transaction processing.
• Implemented KYC/KYB compliance flows — Principals, ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), and human verification — using the Onfido SDK.
• Engineered authentication: email sign-up, identity-provider onboarding, PIN/password, biometric auth, and 2FA.
• Built wallet funding, quotation review, and transaction initiation workflows across internal APIs and provider URLs via an in-app browser.
• Enabled multilingual support with i18n for users across multiple regions.
• Set up CI/CD with Jenkins and Bitbucket, with SonarQube for code quality and security analysis.

Flutter · Dart · Java · Spring Boot · AWS · Docker · Jenkins · SonarQube · Sentry

Kenya

Cross-platform mobile apps and web portals for a pan-African pensions and actuarial group, plus the .NET API layer behind them. I also proposed the system-architecture redesign and led it.

• Built cross-platform mobile apps with React Native and Expo, consuming internal REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Developed a .NET GraphQL server and REST endpoints consumed by the mobile apps and web portals.
• Wrote the C# integration with Microsoft Dynamics, the group's ERP.
• Built an events web portal with booking, notifications, and ticketing using Next.js and TypeScript.
• Proposed and led a system-architecture overhaul to microservices with a Docker-based CI/CD pipeline on Azure Repos.
• Designed the UI/UX for the mobile apps and web portals in Figma; maintained existing React and WordPress apps.

React Native · Expo · TypeScript · .NET · C# · GraphQL · Microsoft Dynamics · Next.js · Docker · Azure Repos · Figma

Kenya (Part Time)

Designed and built a multi-store retail platform: a public Next.js storefront, an admin portal, a REST API, and a Windows desktop POS app using Electron.

• Built the Windows desktop POS app for the sales team using Electron.
• Designed and built a REST API with 2FA on protected routes, consumed by two web portals and the desktop client.
• Built the public storefront and self-checkout flow with Next.js and Tailwind CSS.
• Deployed the full platform with Docker and Nginx on a DigitalOcean Linux server.
• Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Watchtower to automate image builds and deployments.

Electron · Next.js · React · TypeScript · MongoDB · Docker · Nginx · DigitalOcean · GitHub Actions

Kenya (Hybrid)

Built and deployed an election voting system used in 5+ university elections with over 5,000 voters each — a React Native voting app plus separate web portals for admins, clerks, and voters.

• Built a React Native mobile voting app for Android used in live university elections.
• Developed three separate React web portals for admins, clerks, and voters with role-based access.
• Wrote a custom algorithm to filter voter ballots dynamically based on voter properties.
• Built API routes in Laravel and designed the PostgreSQL schema for the full system.
• Deployed all services in Docker containers behind Nginx on a DigitalOcean Linux server.

React Native · React · Laravel · PostgreSQL · Docker · Nginx · DigitalOcean · GitHub Actions · SendGrid

Kenya (Hybrid)

Built the first version of the Prolox internal platform — sales and admin web apps, a React Native mobile admin app, and automated email workflows. The system has since handled over a million transactions for 1,750+ customers.

• Developed sales and admin web apps in React and TypeScript to replace a manual sales workflow.
• Built a React Native mobile admin app for on-the-go access to inventory and sales data.
• Set up automated email jobs for receipts and customer correspondence using SendGrid.
• Deployed the online store and admin portal on Firebase hosting.

React · React Native · TypeScript · Firebase · SendGrid · GitHub Actions