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Senior Frontend Engineer

I build production systems that serve real communities.

4+ years shipping React, React Native, and full-stack applications across healthcare, civic technology, and consumer platforms. Based in Kampala, Uganda.

Co-Founder & CEO of Labwor Technologies. BSc Software Engineering, Uganda Technology & Management University.

Featured
Latest Project

OpenMRS Ozone for Burundi

National hospital EMR system deployment -- frontend architecture, team coordination, and infrastructure across distributed facilities.

ReactTypeScriptJavaSpring BootDockerOpenMRS 3.0
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Selected Work

Project case studies

Doyern Concepts Full Stack Developer

UIPE Real-time Online Voting System

Built a secure, real-time election platform for the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers, handling live vote tallying and candidate management for thousands of members.

ReactNode.jsWebSocketsPostgreSQL
Result

Successfully ran UIPE national elections with zero downtime.

Personal / Labwor Technologies Full Stack Developer

Emmaus Chat -- AI RAG System

Designed and built an AI-powered retrieval-augmented generation system for contextual knowledge search across large document collections.

PythonFlaskLangChainVector DB
Result

Delivered fast, accurate contextual answers from 10,000+ pages of source material.

Labwor Technologies Lead Developer

L-Music -- Northern Uganda Streaming

Created a music streaming platform dedicated to Northern Ugandan artists. Designed for low-bandwidth mobile-first usage with offline caching and artist monetization.

React NativeNode.jsAWS S3MongoDB
Result

Gave regional artists a dedicated digital platform where none previously existed.

Labwor Technologies Mobile Developer

Acakki Manyen -- Fashion E-commerce

Built a mobile-first fashion marketplace app serving the Gulu market, connecting local designers with buyers through a modern shopping experience.

React NativeMongoDBExpress.js
Result

Launched in Gulu with local fashion vendors onboarded at release.

PlexiLife Health, Botswana Frontend Developer

PlexiLife Health -- Patient Management

Developed a patient management interface deployed on AWS infrastructure. Set up automated CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Ansible, and Terraform for reliable health system delivery.

ReactAWSDockerAnsibleTerraform
Result

Production deployment in Botswana with automated infrastructure provisioning.

Experience

Career timeline

Sept 2024 -- Present

Senior Frontend Engineer

Madiro Global Health · Canada (Remote)

OpenMRS Ozone for Burundi

Mar -- Jul 2025

Community Mgmt Fellow

OpenMRS · USA (Remote)

Contributor of the Year 2024

Jul 2023 -- Present

Frontend Dev / Volunteer

OpenMRS · USA (Remote)

Core contributor, Billing module

Sept -- Dec 2023

Frontend Developer

PlexiLife Health · Botswana

AWS + Docker deployment

2020 -- 2025

Full Stack Developer

Doyern Concepts · Uganda

UIPE voting, event mgmt

About

A bit about me

I am a software engineer based in Kampala, Uganda, and Co-Founder & CEO of Labwor Technologies. I specialize in building frontend systems with React and TypeScript, and have deep experience across the full stack with Node.js, Java, and Python.

My work has taken me across healthcare technology (OpenMRS deployments in 4 countries), civic systems (UIPE elections), consumer platforms (music streaming, e-commerce), and AI applications. I hold a BSc in Software Engineering from Uganda Technology & Management University.

I was named OpenMRS "Volunteer Contributor of the Year 2024" and co-led the OpenMRS Conference 2025 as a Community Management Fellow.

Frontend

React.js, React Native, TypeScript, Vue.js, Redux, Material UI, HTML5/CSS3

Backend

Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Express.js, Flask, RESTful APIs, HL7-FHIR

Data & Cloud

MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, DigitalOcean

Certifications

OpenMRS O3, IBM Design Thinking, OpenHIE, Google Cyber Security, MongoDB & AWS (ongoing)

4+

Years experience

4

Countries

10+

Systems shipped

Contact

Interested in working together?

I am open to senior frontend and full-stack roles, consulting engagements, and meaningful collaborations. Let's connect.