Kennedy Wambua
Software engineer · Nairobi

I build the apps Kenyans rent, buy and get paid through.

Payments infrastructure, property, procurement, construction and retail platforms, from the database to the phone in your pocket. Here's what's happening inside them.

Founder & lead engineer · 2026–now

Mintfa

Financial infrastructure for African businesses. One set of APIs to take payments, send payouts, hold balances in wallets and reconcile every shilling, instead of stitching providers together by hand.

Under the hood
  • A double-entry ledger where every transaction is traceable and reproducible
  • M-Pesa rail connector with queued retries and reconciliation
  • Merchant dashboard, admin console, public docs and a status page
  • SDKs for Node.js, PHP and Python
SDKs→NestJS API→BullMQ workers→Postgres ledger↔M-Pesa
Founding engineer · 2026–now

Hut Yangu

Kenya's property social network. Renters scroll a feed of verified homes by neighbourhood, chat with landlords and pay in-app, so fake listings have nowhere to hide.

Under the hood
  • Set the architecture and roadmap as the first engineer
  • Web and mobile apps sharing one API and design language
  • Identity checks and M-Pesa payments with status tracking
React Native→Node.js API→PostgreSQL↔M-Pesa
Radi Digital · 2024–now

Tija eProcurement

Everything a large organisation buys, from purchase request through bids, contracts and deliveries to the invoice being paid. Nia, the built-in AI assistant, answers questions about approvals and spend.

Under the hood
  • Approval workflows with audit trails and role-based access
  • Weighted vendor scoring from delivery, quality and price data
  • An LLM assistant that answers from live procurement records
Next.js→NestJS→Prisma + Postgres+Redis
Radi Digital · 2024–now

Strukchad

Runs a construction company: labour, procurement, inventory and money in one place, plus an Ionic app for staff on site. Owners see cash flow and profit per project without waiting for month end.

Under the hood
  • Paystack and Lemonade payments with webhook verification
  • Two-way sync with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • A field app that keeps working on a weak signal
Next.js+Ionic→Supabase↔Business Central
Freelance · 2026

Signature Closet

An image-led fashion store for Signature The Brand, with a focused admin workspace for products, orders and stock.

Under the hood
  • Storefront and admin in one Next.js app
  • Accounts, orders and wishlists on Supabase
Next.js→Supabase→Cloudflare
Also

Four years of shipping, mostly where money meets messy workflows.

Payments

M-Pesa, Paystack and Lemonade: initiation, callbacks, retries, status tracking and reconciliation.

Enterprise integration

Custom Business Central APIs connected to Node.js systems with OAuth and data sync.

AI in the product

Assistants and insights built on real business data, not demos.

  • Hut Yangu, founding engineer 2026–now
  • Radi Digital, software engineer 2024–now
  • Airtel Kenya, software engineer 2023–2024
  • Alternate Limited, software engineer 2022–2023
Contact

Let's build
something.

Email me at devkenwambua@gmail.com