About

I build software that holds up under real conditions.

Bio

Senior full-stack developer with 5+ years of experience shipping production systems. ML/AI specialist focused on real-world deployments. Embedded systems builder with Arduino expertise. I care about clean code, scalable architecture, and systems that work under load.

Location

Nairobi, Kenya

Years

5+ shipping

Org

Firebird Computing

Stanlley Locke

Principles

How I work.

— 01

Production over prototype

Build for the day a system meets real load. Observability, error budgets, recoverability — first-class.

— 02

Boring is good

Pick proven primitives. Save novelty for the parts of the system that genuinely benefit from it.

— 03

Write for the next engineer

Code is read more than written. Architecture is documented more than diagrammed.

— 04

Measure before optimizing

Performance work without measurement is decoration. Profile, then change.

Stack

Languages, runtimes, infrastructure.

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Django
  • Flask
  • Axum

Database

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • SQLite

DevOps

  • Docker
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • Git

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vite

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Rust
  • C++
  • C#
  • Dart