Nairobi · UTC+3 | 7 yrs runtime | Status: open to work

Product engineer shipping JS features inside real products.

I build the TypeScript layer that makes products do the thing — component and attribute systems, generators, integrations, interfaces that hold up under real users. Seven years in, the last three at Finsweet.

primaryTypeScript · Svelte · Three

platformWebflow API · Cloudflare

alsoLaravel · Vue · Python

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shipped for — agency & product

Dropbox Sign● Weglot● EquipmentShare● Meow Wolf● Leigh Bureau● Illumio● Sugarologie● The Chosen●

years building software

sites launched & maintained

faster front-end builds via reusable components

seller efficiency lift on Vagascape

SPEC-01 — CASE STUDY

Finsweet · 2023 → present · shipped

Policy Generator, Consentpro CMP

Webflow users need GDPR-grade privacy policies and cookie declarations without a lawyer or a developer. I own the feature that generates them — jurisdiction-aware, scanner-fed, and editable inside the site they already have.

TypeScript Svelte Webflow API Cloudflare Workers LLM assist

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REQ · inputs

Site domain, scanned cookie inventory, vendor list, business entity details, and the jurisdictions the customer sells into.

CON · constraints

Output has to be legally defensible per jurisdiction, regenerate when the cookie scan changes, and stay editable by a non-technical marketer inside Webflow — no build step, no dev handoff.

DEC · decisions

Clause-level template graph instead of one document per jurisdiction, so GDPR, CCPA and friends compose from shared blocks. Generation runs on the edge and returns structured content, not HTML soup — the renderer decides presentation.

IMP · implementation

Svelte UI in the CMP dashboard, TypeScript generation core with typed clause schemas, Webflow CMS write-back for the published policy page, and LLM assist confined to phrasing — never to the legal structure.

OUT · outcome

Compliance became a setup step rather than a project. Customers self-serve their policy, and support stopped fielding "which jurisdiction am I in" tickets.

SPEC-02 — CASE STUDY

Sugarologie · agency build · live

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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 · Wized

outcomethe site's most-used page

INDEX — SELECTED BUILDS

2019 → 2026

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01 Attributes & Components systems CMS filtering, sliders, tabs, sort and load-more that non-coders configure with attributes. TypeScript · Webflow API 2023

02 Algolia ↔ Webflow CMS sync Search app for Leigh Bureau — index pipeline plus a front-end that stays fast at scale. TypeScript · Algolia · Cloudflare 2022

03 EquipmentShare location views Google Maps data visualisation of branch and fleet coverage across the US. JavaScript · Maps API 2022

04 Meow Wolf event ticketing Ticketing flow for events — inventory, checkout and confirmations on a no-code shell. JavaScript · Wized · Webflow 2022

05 Kopokopo M-Pesa package Open-source Laravel package so other developers ship mobile payments in an afternoon. PHP · Laravel · Kopokopo API 2021

06 Upworkstation & Vagascape Two platforms built solo — a multi-tenant hiring marketplace, and multi-store commerce sync for Kilimall sellers. Laravel · Vue · Redis · Websockets 2021

MATRIX — WHAT I REACH FOR

depth · not a checklist

A · language

TypeScript96

JavaScript94

PHP72

Python55

B · front of house

Component architecture & reusable design systems

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)

Laravel · Wized · WordPress when it fits

D · how I work

Performance budgets, not vibes

Internal tooling to speed the team up

Async writing · open communication

Git discipline · reviewable increments

Debugging as a first-class skill

LOG — EXPERIENCE

2017 → present

AUG 2023 → PRESENT

Finsweet · remote

Webflow Product Engineer

Owned the Policy Generator in Consentpro CMP. Designed and implemented 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 led the internal tooling that decides how new components enter the product.

→ AUG 2023

Finsweet · agency team

Agency Projects 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, Marketo form mirroring for Illumio, and XML-fed ad automation.

FEB 2019 → JUL 2023

Freelance · Nairobi

Software Developer

Shipped Upworkstation and Vagascape solo — multi-tenant architecture, permissions, queues, live chat, marketplace API sync. Also 50+ WordPress sites, a researcher platform for SDSN, a documented API for the Kenya Research Information System, and open-source packages the Laravel community still installs.

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 — GLASS LATTICE

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The same lattice that drifts behind this page — sheets of glass with a hand-written fresnel shader, reorganising into a new formation every section. Here you get the controls.

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drift0.35

spin0.30

meshes 22 · fresnel glass shader · double-sided

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Building product features at Finsweet, and open to senior front-end / product engineering roles where the JavaScript layer matters.

basedNairobi, KE

overlapEAT · CET · EST am

remote since2019

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readingWebGPU specs

tinkeringshaders & motion

offlineswimming · hiking

giving backLaravel open source

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mgates4410@gmail.com