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I'm a software engineer with close to a decade of experience designing and developing complex systems using PHP, JavaScript, and TypeScript. I excel at turning ideas into robust, scalable software that users love, with strong skills in database management, server infrastructure, and both front-end and back-end frameworks. In my career I've collaborated with product teams to translate customer needs into practical solutions. I'm passionate about building tools that improve workflows, drive growth, and deliver measurable outcomes. I'm excited to continue growing as a technical leader and helping teams ship high-quality software across East Africa and beyond.…I'm a software engineer with close to a decade of experience designing and developing complex systems using PHP, JavaScript, and TypeScript. I excel at turning ideas into robust, scalable software that users love, with strong skills in database management, server infrastructure, and both front-end and back-end frameworks. In my career I've collaborated with product teams to translate customer needs into practical solutions. I'm passionate about building tools that improve workflows, drive growth, and deliver measurable outcomes. I'm excited to continue growing as a technical leader and helping teams ship high-quality software across East Africa and beyond.

PHILLIP MWANIKI NZULI

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, DevOps Developer, +1

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I'm a software engineer with close to a decade of experience designing and developing complex systems using PHP, JavaScript, and TypeScript. I excel at turning ideas into robust, scalable software that users love, with strong skills in database management, server infrastructure, and both front-end and back-end frameworks. In my career I've collaborated with product teams to translate customer needs into practical solutions. I'm passionate about building tools that improve workflows, drive growth, and deliver measurable outcomes. I'm excited to continue growing as a technical leader and helping teams ship high-quality software across East Africa and beyond.…I'm a software engineer with close to a decade of experience designing and developing complex systems using PHP, JavaScript, and TypeScript. I excel at turning ideas into robust, scalable software that users love, with strong skills in database management, server infrastructure, and both front-end and back-end frameworks. In my career I've collaborated with product teams to translate customer needs into practical solutions. I'm passionate about building tools that improve workflows, drive growth, and deliver measurable outcomes. I'm excited to continue growing as a technical leader and helping teams ship high-quality software across East Africa and beyond.

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I’m a software engineer with close to a decade of experience designing and developing complex systems using PHP, JavaScript, and TypeScript. I excel at turning ideas into robust, scalable software that users love, with strong skills in database management, server infrastructure, and both front-end and back-end frameworks.

In my career I’ve collaborated with product teams to translate customer needs into practical solutions. I’m passionate about building tools that improve workflows, drive growth, and deliver measurable outcomes. I’m excited to continue growing as a technical leader and helping teams ship high-quality software across East Africa and beyond.

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Work Experience

Head of Engineering (CTO) at Wonderkid Multimedia

January 1, 2025 - Present

Leading the engineering team of 5, mapping out direction, collaborating with Product Managers to streamline product decisions and customer requests, producing progress reports for management, and leading hiring processes.

Senior Software Engineer Consultant at Phisoft

June 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024

Helping local IT firms adopt modern software development techniques; reviewing codebases and introducing modern standards; automating deployments with CI/CD; building solutions using Laravel, Livewire, and MySQL; deployments on Ubuntu VPS; handling client issues from analysis to development.

Senior Software Engineer at MAAT Systems, East Africa

September 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023

Led a team of 4 developers migrating a hospital system's codebase to Laravel MVC architecture, improving application performance by over 30%; supported server infrastructure and deployments via CI/CD; liaised with clients to document bugs and build features.

Senior Software Engineer at Advantage Learn Technologies

May 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Part of a 4-person team enhancing an online Learning Management System using Laravel, MySQL, Redis, Vue 3, and TypeScript; spearheaded the initial project structure to enable migration from webpack to Vite and Laravel 9; collaborated on feature design and module implementation; maintained a legacy system for startup hubs in South Africa, developing new features, debugging, and deploying updates to test and production servers using Spring Boot and Angular.

Backend Engineer at Whatagraph

October 1, 2021 - April 30, 2022

Integrated Twitter and Twitter Ads into the platform, reducing bugs in reports by 50% and improving data analytics for clients; managed client-facing technical support tickets; enhanced in-house documentation to improve tooling and processes for better team collaboration.

Full Stack Developer at Libryo

January 1, 2021 - October 31, 2021

Contributed to core legal management system with a team of 10 developers using Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, and GitLab; facilitated feature requests from the legal team, resulting in a more user-friendly application; implemented an internal scraping tool using TypeScript and Playwright to extract constitutions and legislation, streamlining compliance workflows.

Product Manager at Ally Super App

April 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020

Led a team of 5 to deliver an MVP within 3 months, securing further investor interest; delivered investor presentations and pitched growth strategies; facilitated strategy meetings with the development team, prioritizing features and bugs for seamless product delivery; used Jira, Elixir, and PostgreSQL to develop the Stories Mobile App.

Senior Software Engineer at American Estate And Trust

July 1, 2018 - March 31, 2020

Spearheaded refactoring of the Bitcoin wallet to support multiple cryptocurrencies by leveraging Node.js for the Accubit Wallet product; developed an internal system to manage ICO and wrote the API for both the mobile app and the Bits sector product in PHP; utilized Zend Framework to build the AET Core product; ensured server uptime and production issue monitoring for robust deployment.

Software Engineer at Meliora Technologies

December 1, 2016 - June 30, 2018

Developed Unified Communications Manager product using AngularJS and Java; configured Linux servers (Red Hat OS) and mapped out system architecture; trained KB tech staff and contributed to customer success initiatives; contributed to Safarit ek/Safarit ek-like product development for client engagements.

Software Engineer at Olive Tree Media

January 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016

Developed Cooperative Bank of Kenya website from scratch using CodeIgniter; built modules and plugins for marketing and analytics; set up and managed servers for clients.