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Ezra Cliff Esau

Ezra Cliff Esau

Full-stack engineer · Nairobi, KE

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I write software that helps people do real things — move money safely, access justice, get healthcare. Five years across the whole stack: in-browser ML and offline-first apps, distributed Go, Elixir and Laravel backends, and the data pipelines behind the reporting. Mostly on the continent, mostly for people for whom connectivity isn't a given.

Experience

  1. Software Engineer · Health-E-Net

    Oct 2024 — PresentNairobi, Kenya

    End-to-end work on PaperEMR — an offline-first Angular 17 PWA that turns photographed paper forms into clinical data across 12+ sites. Worked on features that ranged from frontend to backend: in-browser ML, GraphQL APIs, and the streaming ETL + BI warehouse behind the dashboards.

    angulartypescriptgraphqlpostgresqltensorflow.jscouchdb
  2. Software Engineer · USAID

    Jun 2024 — Aug 2024Nairobi, Kenya

    Built a cross-platform Flutter app for Kenya's Department of Children's Services — putting offline-first child-protection case capture directly in field officers' hands, synced to national government systems.

    flutterdartsqliterest
  3. Software Engineer · Veritas Interactive

    Feb 2022 — Mar 2024Kampala, Uganda

    Shipped three production SaaS products end-to-end — SproutRealty, BetterLaw and BloodPoint — building React/Next.js frontends over multi-tenant Laravel backends, with Docker/CI on DigitalOcean.

    next.jsreactlaravelmysqldocker

Tech Stack

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonGoPHPKotlinDartBashCC++

Frontend

ReactVue.jsAngularNext.jsHTML5CSS3

Mobile

React NativeFlutter

Backend & Frameworks

ElixirNode.jsLaravel

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLRedisCouchDB

Cloud & DevOps

AWSDigitalOceanDockerKubernetesLinux