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Vincent Ndegwa
Available for new roles and projects

I build scalable software and AI products.

I'm Vincent, a software and AI engineer with six years shipping platforms, payments and LLM features for teams worldwide.

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Tools I build with

OpenAI Anthropic LangChainL LangGraphL LlamaIndex Hugging Face Ollamap pgvectorP Pinecone ElasticsearchM Microsoft FoundryA Azure Python FastAPI
Laravel Django Node.js NestJS Vue 3 Nuxt React Next.js TypeScript PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Docker GitHub Actions Google Cloud

Reliable systems first. Then AI where it earns its place.

years building in production
6+years building in production
products shipped for clients
10+products shipped for clients
concurrent users served
10k+concurrent users served
in Artificial Intelligence
MScin Artificial Intelligence

How I work

  1. Understand

    Start with the problem and the people it affects, then find what is really slowing them down.

  2. Architect

    Design services, data and queues that hold up under load, with AI added only where it measurably helps.

  3. Ship

    Tested, containerised and deployed through CI, then watched in production until the numbers move.

Work I'm proud of

Four products, each measured by what it changed for the people using it.

  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Stripe Connect

Multi-tenant ERP and POS platform

Many businesses run sales, payments and reporting side by side. I rebuilt the reporting path with tuned queries, caching and queues so it stays fast under heavy load.

report generation, down from minutes
Secondsreport generation, down from minutes
records processed every day
10k+records processed every day
terminals on one platform
100+terminals on one platform

Led development of a multi-tenant ERP and POS platform for Paysoko Systems, handling high-concurrency writes from 100+ retail terminals. Optimised MySQL reporting pipelines from minutes to seconds, built Stripe and Stripe Connect flows for split payments and subscriptions, and streamlined releases with Docker and GitHub Actions.

Private client work

  • OpenAI
  • NLP

40 min

saved on every feedback batch

Telliqo

AI reputation management that reads customer feedback, routes complaints to the team and sends praise to public review channels.

  • Laravel
  • Livewire

3

payment gateways in one escrow flow

SponsorFlow

Escrow-backed payments between brands and creators, with every state change live from deposit to release.

  • Machine learning
  • Django

10k+

concurrent shoppers at peak

Grocery recommendation engine

Collaborative filtering that suggests the right products to each shopper, built to hold steady at peak traffic.

Private client work
Grocery recommendation engine screenshot
All projects

Experience

  1. 2024 - Now

    Senior Software Engineer

    Paysoko Systems

    Lead engineer on a multi-tenant ERP and POS platform: Stripe Connect payments and subscriptions, real-time data, AI-driven inventory forecasting and automated delivery pipelines.

  2. 2021 - 2024

    Senior Full-Stack and AI Lead

    Forward Velocity

    Led full-stack and AI work across several products. Moved core services to NestJS behind an API gateway and built automation that saved the team about 20 hours a week.

  3. 2020 - 2021

    Freelance Software Engineer

    Independent

    Designed and shipped 10+ production apps for clients worldwide, from React and Next.js frontends to Django and FastAPI backends.

  4. 2023 - 2025

    MSc Artificial Intelligence

    Open University of Kenya

    Applied machine learning and intelligent automation: the theory behind the AI features I ship.

Built after hours

Side projects and experiments from my GitHub.

Now working on

  • Agentic workflows with LangChain and LangGraph.
  • Vector search in pgvector, Pinecone, Chroma and FAISS.
  • Retrieval strategies for production RAG.
  • Bridging classic software engineering with modern AI systems.

SafeWeave

Construction safety platform for site inductions and RAMS approvals, with full audit trails and AI-assisted document checks.

Laravel, RBAC

ValidTrack

Tracks insurance and certification expiry, scanning thousands of records daily and alerting before documents lapse.

Laravel, Queues

fin-data-pipeline

Scripts and notebooks that clean and analyse financial transaction data.

Python, Jupyter

@VincentNdegwa on GitHub

Let's build something that scales.

Open to senior engineering roles, contracts and AI product work.

Book a callndegwavincent7@gmail.com