Solution Architect • Nairobi, Kenya • UTC+3

I build production-grade systems that operate, not just demo

Bridging technical innovation and development impact - 5+ years architecting data-intensive platforms for the UN system, NGOs, government, and enterprise across East Africa.

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Nairobi • Remote / Hybrid • Kenyan eligible for ICA globally

Architecture philosophy

  1. 01

    Trust & Ingestion

  2. 02

    Intelligence Layer

  3. 03

    Decision & Action

  4. 04

    Deployment & Ops

Collins Kamama

Solution Architect · Full Stack Developer · Data Scientist

Years Experience
5+
Years Experience
Cloud Apps Shipped
10+
Cloud Apps Shipped
Uptime Maintained
99.9%
Uptime Maintained
Daily Transactions
500K+
Daily Transactions
Trusted acrossUnited NationsUNDP KenyaNakuru County GovernmentTechSavanna Kenya

Capabilities

What I bring

Four pillars, each backed by a production metric - not a bullet point.

Full-Stack Development

10+ cloud-native apps shipped

AWS · Vercel · Heroku

depth95/100
Node.jsTypeScriptReactNext.jsExpressFlaskREST/GraphQL

Data Science & AI

85% predictive accuracy

NLP · RAG · LangChain · Llama 3.1

depth88/100
PythonPandasNumPyscikit-learnPower BITableau

Database Engineering

99.9% uptime @ 500K+ daily tx

Tier 3 PostgreSQL HA

depth92/100
PostgreSQL HAReplicationQuery TuningMySQLMongoDBETL

Cloud & DevOps

35% infra cost reduction

Optimization + IaC

depth86/100
AWS EC2/S3/Lambda/RDSDockerCI/CDGitHub ActionsIaCLinux

Selected work

Featured Systems

Flagship builds - every one ships with architecture, a metric, and source.

Enterprise BlockchainFlagship

Blockchain Inventory System

Problem - Enterprises lose audit integrity when inventory ledgers can be silently edited.

Immutable on-chain ledger + AI demand forecasting

TypeScriptEthereumHardhatReactPostgreSQL
40% faster stock reconciliation · tamper-proof trails
GitHub
AI & AnalyticsFlagship

SDG Knowledge Retrieval System (RAG)

Problem - UN-Habitat SDG 11 documentation is vast; teams lose hours searching for citations.

Llama 3.1 + LangChain RAG over vector embeddings, serverless inference on AWS Lambda

PythonLangChainLlama 3.1AWS LambdaGDPR-aligned encryption
40% faster retrieval of policy evidence
GitHub
Climate & CivicFlagship

Global Climate & Food Security Intelligence Platform

Problem - Food-insecurity early warning is fragmented across siloed datasets and reports.

End-to-end data science platform: ingestion → models → dashboards

Pythonscikit-learnGeospatialPostgreSQLDashboards
Predicts food insecurity hotspots before crisis peaks
GitHub

Social proof

What partners say

Abridged from written professional references - originals available on request.

On file
“Collins re-architected how our unit handles records - PostgreSQL access was up 30%, ingestion that took days ran in hours after his Python automation, and 2,000+ sensitive files migrated with zero GDPR findings. He treats UN data governance with the seriousness it demands.”

Ms. Alice Ndungu

Supervisor, UNON FMTS Unit

On file
“He migrated 520+ public records to PostgreSQL with zero data loss and cut turnaround by 30%. Beyond the numbers, Collins resolved 150+ tickets across five departments with a 95% first-contact rate - county systems were simply more reliable with him on the team.”

Mr. James Ndegwa

Dept. Administrator, Nakuru County ICT

On file
“Collins kept campus IT infrastructure running dependably and had a rare gift for mentorship - junior technicians and students gravitated to him because he explains systems clearly and hands over documentation that actually works.”

Mr. Victor Rotich

Head of Department IT, PUEA Nakuru Campus

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