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