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I'm Lance Munyao

Software Engineer · AI Engineer · Backend Engineer

AI and software engineer with 7 years of coding experience and 4+ years delivering production systems for companies across Africa, Europe, and the UK — including tools now in active use by engineering teams at Al Jazeera and Amazon.

End-to-end ownership across Python, NestJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Laravel, vector stores, and knowledge graphs.

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About

I'm an AI and software engineer with 7 years of coding experience and 4+ years shipping production systems across Africa, Europe, and the UK. I like owning things end to end — backend services, AI pipelines, infrastructure — spanning Python, NestJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Laravel, vector stores, and knowledge graphs.

Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Age: 21
Nationality: Kenyan
Interests: Hiking, Football(CFC), Badminton
Study: Strathmore University
Employment: ProDG Studios

Skills

Spoken languages

EnglishSwahiliFrenchZulu

Languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptPHPRust

Frameworks

React.jsVue.jsNode.jsNestJSFastAPILaravel

AI / ML

LLM IntegrationRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Vector StoresKnowledge GraphsGraph DatabasesChatbot Development

Infrastructure

DockerKubernetesMicroservicesREST APIsgRPCGit

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLNeo4j

Experience

Software Engineer Intern

February 2026 - May 2026

Fleetguru — Tallinn, Estonia

Researched API integration opportunities across 5+ new markets, directly informing the product expansion roadmap.
Revamped 3 core system modules in Python and REST APIs, reducing technical debt and improving response times by ~30%.

Backend Engineer & AI Engineer

June 2025 - June 2026

ProDG Studios — Nairobi, Kenya (Remote)

Architected and shipped 3 AI-powered products using Python, NestJS, and Docker for clients in Nigeria and the UK.
Delivered an AI system now in active production use by engineering teams at Al Jazeera and Amazon.
Designed microservice architectures with REST and gRPC interfaces, supporting 10,000+ monthly active users.

AI Engineer

May 2025 - July 2025

Impact Africa Network — Nairobi, Kenya

Designed and built a unified AI pipeline and LLM backbone serving all 7 portfolio companies under the conglomerate.
Architected a shared RAG infrastructure and knowledge graph layer used by 50+ engineers across the group.

Software Engineering Intern

February 2024 - April 2024

Strathmore University ICTS — Nairobi, Kenya

Led full-stack development of a security management system (Laravel, React.js, MySQL) from design to production deployment.
System serves 200+ daily active users across Kirinyaga County through Strathmore University's security department.

AI Engineer

January 2024 - April 2024

Formalitee — Remote

Built and deployed an LLM-powered app for France's residence permit process, serving 500+ users across Discord, Telegram, and web chatbot.

Software Engineering Intern

July 2023 - November 2023

ilabAfrica — Nairobi, Kenya

Developed and tested revenue management systems using Laravel and Vue.js; produced technical documentation and onboarding content.

Projects

Laravel URL Shortener

A simple Laravel project that manages and shortens urls.

Laravel

Epharma Drugs API

An API for the drugs module, with token auth, made with laravel

Laravel

Aqualink

Was part of a team that built this project. It basically raises awareness about endangered species in water bodies as well as provide info about the water bodies around people.

Chatify

A real time chat application using pusher, breeze and laravel

LaravelPusher

Me-dawa

A bare php, html, js and css project that manages drugs in a pharmacy. It is basically a platform to facilitate the whole process of drug dispensing.

PHPHTMLJSCSS

Duka

A simple inventory management system built with java swing, awt and mysql

JavaSwingMySQL

Space Titanic

Completed this project as part of the Kaggle Titanic competition. It is a simple machine learning project that predicts whether a passenger survived or not.

PythonMachine Learning

Netty

A web scrapper for the 2023 KCSE KNEC results site. Makes schools get the marks for all their students at a lightening speed instead of sending them individually