Full-Stack & AI Engineer · Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪
I'm a Full-Stack & AI Engineer with 4+ years shipping software that real people use. I currently build telecom Value-Added Services and production LLM/RAG workflows at Zuri Health, where the systems I maintain support 50,000+ monthly healthcare transactions at 99.9% availability.
Outside of that, I independently design, build and ship products end-to-end - 10+ live applications across fintech, marketplaces and AI. I care less about frameworks-for-their-own-sake and more about the boring things that make software trustworthy: correctness under load, clean data and systems that don't wake you up at 3am.
- 🔭 Currently building: Snapit - an open-source, local-first encrypted clipboard vault (Flutter + Flask)
- 🧠 Currently learning: deeper MLOps & model serving, vector search at scale and Rust for systems work
- 🩺 Proudest ship: Glycosight - a clinical AI that grades diabetic retinopathy from retinal scans (EfficientNet-B4, sub-second inference)
- ✍️ I write about the hard parts of what I build - race conditions, LLM guardrails, zero-downtime deploys - on my blog
- 💬 Ask me about: fintech ledgers & M-PESA, production LLMs, telecom (SMS/USSD/IVR), or shipping solo
- 🌍 Based in Nairobi (GMT+3) · open to remote roles & collaborations
Languages
Frontend
Backend & AI
Data & Infra
| Project | What it does | Stack | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glycosight | Clinical AI grading diabetic retinopathy from fundus images | FastAPI · PyTorch · OpenCV · Next.js | Sub-second inference; EfficientNet-B4 trained on ~6k merged clinical images |
| Snapit | Local-first encrypted clipboard vault (open source) | Flutter · Dart · Flask · Redis | AES-256-GCM cross-device sync |
| SmartMinds | Digitizing Kenyan savings circles (Chamas) | Next.js · Flask · MySQL · M-PESA | 30+ active Chamas · 99.9% ledger accuracy |
| TabMemory | Accountability-first tab manager | Next.js · Flask · Redis/Celery | 1,000+ memories · 99.9% fulfillment |
| Gemify Africa | Discovery & booking marketplace | Next.js · Flask · GCP | 200+ listings · real-time booking |
| Errands By Us | On-demand errand marketplace | Next.js · Flask · MySQL | 500+ errands · 98% satisfaction |
More live products on my portfolio →
- Ship, then refine. I'd rather have something live and learning from real users than perfect on my machine.
- Money and health code is different. For ledgers and clinical systems I default to strong consistency, explicit locking and guardrails - "move fast and break things" doesn't apply when it's someone's savings or diagnosis.
- I write about what I build. Documenting the hard decisions makes me a better engineer and helps whoever hits the same wall next.
- Always learning in public. Every project teaches me something I didn't know when I started it - and I'm genuinely happy to be the least experienced person in the room if it means I grow.
I'm open to remote engineering roles, freelance builds and collaborations - especially anything in fintech, AI, or products for emerging markets. I reply to most messages within a day.
🌐 Portfolio · 💼 LinkedIn · ✉️ bhinnexclusive@gmail.com · 📝 Blog
Thanks for stopping by - if any of my work is useful to you, a ⭐ makes my day.