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Product engineerbuilding consent systemsfor privacy products

I build consent and data-privacy systems — jurisdiction-aware policies, cookie disclosures, and CMP workflows — that teams can run without a lawyer on every change.

primaryTypeScript · Svelte · Vue

platformWebflow API · Cloudflare

alsoAttributes · Wized · Git

motionGSAP · Three · Lenis

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years building web products

websites launched & supported

faster front-end delivery with reusable components

increase in seller efficiency for Vagascape

SPEC-01 — CASE STUDY

The Foundry Labs2026 → present · building

Corvert Engine: operator vehicles dashboard behind the visual designer canvas editing a Blackstone Motors inventory page

Corvert Engine, Vertical SaaS

Small businesses across Africa deserve software built around how they actually work—not generic tools made for somewhere else. I built Corvert Engine, a multi-tenant platform for launching focused vertical SaaS products, with shared workspaces, a visual site builder, and edge publishing. Valta, its first product, helps motor dealers manage inventory and publish fast storefronts.

TypeScript Next.js Hono Cloudflare Workers Postgres Astro Neon CHTML builder

01 . Real-world problem

Many African small businesses still rely on software that is expensive, difficult to adapt, or designed for markets with different needs. A motor dealer, for example, needs inventory, customer enquiries, and a fast public website working together—not another collection of disconnected apps.

02 . Constraints

The product has to stay fast on unreliable connections, keep each business’s data separate, and let non-developers update their site safely. It also needs to support very different industries without rebuilding the platform every time.

03 . Decisions

I chose one shared engine with focused packages for each industry. Every site moves through staging before it goes live, and themes can use approved business data without reaching into the database. That keeps the system flexible without making it fragile.

04 . Implementation

I built one shared platform for every industry product. Operators manage content in a visual dashboard, sites publish through a safe staging step, and releases are served from Cloudflare’s edge. New verticals plug into the same engine as packages; Valta, for motor dealers, is the first.

05 . Outcome

The core platform, visual designer, publishing flow, and operator dashboards are running in staging and production. Valta—the first product built on the engine—is being prepared for its first motor-dealer customers. This portfolio uses the same designer in sandbox mode.

SPEC-02 — CASE STUDY

Finsweet2023 → 2026 · shipped

Policy Generator, Consentpro CMP

Consentpro turns a site scan and a few setup choices into privacy policies and cookie disclosures matched to each business and jurisdiction. I built the generator that assembles that content, keeps it editable, and publishes it directly inside the customer’s Webflow site.

modelstatic templates + scanner-fed hydration

stackTypeScript · Svelte · Cloudflare Workers

outcomecompliance as a setup step

Consentpro Policy Generator: Privacy Rights master document covering GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and US state laws

SPEC-03 — CASE STUDY

Sugarologieagency build · live

Sugarologie Cakeculator: pan, flavor, cake type, servings, and frosting inputs through the recipe logic hub to a calculated vanilla bean cake recipe

The Cakeculator

A recipe engine dressed as a calculator: pick cake type, pan geometry, frosting and filling, and it rescales every ingredient, bake time and yield. The hard part was never the UI — it was the ratio model behind it and keeping it correct across pan volumes.

modelbaker's-percentage scaling by pan volume

stackTypeScript · Webflow CMS · Cloudflare

outcomethe site's most-used page

INDEX — SELECTED BUILDS

2019 → 2026

idbuildstackyr

Corvert Engine

African-market platform for vertical SaaS — visual builder that publishes to the edge, plus specialised tools like dealership inventory, catalogue and search.

React · Astro · Cloudflare · CHTML2026

The Chosen Adventures & Yuna MEWS

Wized user accounts for The Chosen Adventures, plus MEWS PMS integration for yuna.fr.

Wized · Webflow · MEWS API2025

Attributes & Components systems

Sliders, tabs, sort and load-more that non-coders configure with attributes.

TypeScript · Webflow API2025

Algolia ↔ Webflow CMS sync

Search app for Leigh Bureau — index pipeline plus a front-end that stays fast at scale.

TypeScript · Algolia · Cloudflare2024

EquipmentShare location views

Google Maps data visualisation of branch and fleet coverage across the US.

JavaScript · Maps API2024

Meow Wolf event ticketing

Ticketing flow for events — inventory, checkout and confirmations on a no-code shell.

JavaScript · GraphQL · Webflow2024

Upworkstation & Vagascape

Two platforms built solo — a multi-tenant hiring marketplace, and multi-store commerce sync for Kilimall sellers.

Laravel · Vue · Redis · Websockets2021

WordPress

Over 50 client websites supported — themes, plugins, and the ongoing care that kept them live.

PHP · WordPress2019

TECH STACK — WHAT I REACH FOR

production-tested · chosen with care

A · language

TypeScript96

JavaScript94

PHP72

Python55

B · front of house

Webflow Components & Finsweet Attributes

Svelte · Vue · Alpine · Livewire

GSAP · ScrollTrigger · Lenis · Three.js

Responsive, mobile-first, cross-browser

Accessibility & UX best practice

C · behind it

Webflow API — Designer & CMS

API design & third-party integration

Cloudflare Workers · Redis · queues

MySQL · Postgres · websockets (Soketi)

Wized · Designer extensions · CI/CD

D · how I work

Fast by default, with performance budgets

Automation and internal tools that save time

Clear async communication and documentation

Small, reviewable commits and pull requests

Debugging until the root cause is clear

LOG — EXPERIENCE

2017 → present

OCT 2025 → 2026

Finsweet · product team

Webflow Product Engineer

Owned the Policy Generator in Consentpro CMP, then the legal compliance review that updated Finsweet and Consentpro policy documents. Designed and maintained Attributes and Components systems that let non-coders build CMS filtering, sliders, tabs and sortable content. Modularised the component library — reusable templates cut front-end build time by 20% — and continued fixing components bugs reducing clients churn ratio.

AUG 2023 → OCT 2025

Finsweet · agency team

Webflow Agency JS Developer

Built and maintained front-ends for Dropbox Sign, Weglot, EquipmentShare, The Chosen Adventures and Yuna — plus the logic layers behind them: the Cakeculator recipe engine, Algolia search sync, Meow Wolf ticketing, Wized user accounts for The Chosen, MEWS for yuna.fr, Marketo form mirroring for Illumio, and XML-fed ad automation for Garage Lorillou.

FEB 2019 → JUL 2023

Freelance

Software Developer

Shipped Upworkstation and Vagascape solo — multi-tenant architecture, permissions, queues, live chat, marketplace API sync. Also 50+ custom JS/TS sites, a researcher platform for SDSN, a documented API for the Kenya Research Information System, and client-side widgets that automated content and checkout flows.

2014 → 2017

University of Eldoret

BSc. Computer Science

Software engineering methodology, data structures and algorithms, databases, statistics. Started freelancing before graduating, which is why the log overlaps.

LAB — VISUAL BUILDER

same production designer · nothing is saved

This is the Corvert designer that ships in production — sandboxed on this page so you can rewrite copy, spacing, and breakpoints. Select Glass lattice in the navigator to reshape the field behind this site.

experience it

Launch the visual builder over this page. Edit the live document, then reset to the frozen fixture. Nothing writes back.

How it’s built

esc to exit · preview · reset · nothing is saved

now

I’m currently building Corvert Engine and exploring software and product engineering roles where product judgment, technical depth, and reliable delivery matter.

basedNairobi, KE

overlapEAT · CET · EST am

remote since2019

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readingWebGPU specs · GDPR

tinkeringgraphics & motion

offlineswimming · roadtrips

giving backdev code tooling

EXIT — SAY HELLO

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