Senior Full-Stack & Systems Engineer | Fintech, AI Pipelines & Revenue Systems
I build production-grade revenue engines, payment integrations, programmatic SEO platforms, and resilient AI developer tooling. Sole engineer behind multi-tenant ISP fintech platforms and automated generative AI media pipelines.
- Fintech & Payment Systems: 8 payment gateways integrated behind a single resilient interface (M-Pesa STK/B2B/reversals, Paystack, KopoKopo, bank paybills). Built with 3-layer idempotency (namespaced HTTP interceptor, DB unique receipts, transactional outbox) and circuit breakers separating provider outages from customer declines.
- Programmatic SEO & AI Pipelines: Built 1,898 static pSEO pages powered by a 2,158-keyword manifest (198k monthly volume) with LLM content helpfulness gates, E-E-A-T publish bars, anti-doorway layout variation, and automated IndexNow liveness queues.
- Multi-Provider AI Orchestration: Multi-lane image generation routing across Gemini variants, InstantID on free Kaggle T4s, and Flux LoRA on Replicate/RunPod with 3-tier safety recovery and adaptive Redis budget gates.
- Platform & Systems Architecture: 9 monorepo microservices, 876 HTTP endpoints, 263 hand-written SQL migrations, self-hosted Docker fleet on VPS with automated schema-shape assertion and changed-services-only CI/CD.
USSDShield: Android AccessibilityService app that masks PIN input during M-Pesa USSD sessions to prevent shoulder-surfing.pos-agent: Offline-first local agent for retail POS setups (Windows/Linux, pure Go).a2ui-free: Provider-agnostic factory and weekly cron probe orchestrating ~90 free LLM chat models across NVIDIA, Groq, Cerebras, Mistral, and Cloudflare.freellmapi: OpenAI-compatible API proxy aggregating free-tier keys from ~14 AI providers with automatic failover.openclaude: CLI tool opening Claude Code workflows to OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, and 200+ models.
- FyberPay (ISP Billing & Payments): RADIUS authentication engine, Huawei OLT/MikroTik provisioning generator, full subscription/dunning state machine, QR-verified PDF invoicing.
- MyPhotoAI (AI Media Platform): High-speed conversion funnel with proof-first microservices, 402 download gates, geo pay-first gates across 10 currencies.
- Shellwire (Multi-LLM Newsroom): 12-provider LLM voting consensus platform.
Detailed interactive case studies and code walkthroughs live at kiragu.alkenacode.dev.
- Languages & Core: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, Go, Kotlin (Android), SQL, Rust.
- Database & Caching: PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, MongoDB.
- Infra & DevOps: Docker, Docker Compose, Cloudflare Tunnels, RADIUS, Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), Nginx, Self-hosted CI/CD.
- AI & Vision: MediaPipe BlazeFace, PyTorch, OpenAI APIs, Gemini, Replicate, RunPod, InstantID, Flux.
- Portfolio & Case Studies: kiragu.alkenacode.dev
- Direct Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/Kiragu-Maina
- Contract & Consulting Availability: 2-4 weeks notice for full-stack platform deployments, payment architecture integration, and AI system audits.



