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Elvis
Mburu

Software engineer driving event-driven systems, microservices, and responsible AI integration across healthcare, insurance and civic tech platforms. Building scalable solutions that create measurable impact.

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About

Technical
Leadership

Backend Engineer & Platform Architect building scalable, resilient systems that serve thousands of users. I design event-driven microservices, reliable APIs, secure authentication, and robust deployment pipelines, with versioning and migration strategies that ensure stability and growth.

Delivering production-grade impact through fault-tolerant systems, observability (metrics, logs, traces), SLO-driven reliability, and high-throughput performance. My work focuses on creating platforms that scale seamlessly and maintain consistent performance under complex workloads.

Mentoring & advancing responsible AI by integrating ML safely into production systems, leading architecture reviews, and fostering engineering excellence through structured code reviews and knowledge sharing.

2+
Years Experience
TBD
Projects Delivered
15+
Technologies

Expertise

Technical Stack

Backend & APIs

Event-Driven Microservices
REST & GraphQL API Design
Java (Spring Boot) & Python (Flask)
Authentication & Authorization
Scalable Service Architecture

Data & Streaming

Apache Kafka & CDC
Relational Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
Data Pipeline Design & Engineering
Real-Time Event Processing
Data Modeling & Optimization

Architecture & Reliability

Domain-Driven Design
SAGA & Outbox Patterns
Circuit Breakers & Resilience Patterns
SLOs, SLIs & Error Budgets
Chaos & Load Testing

DevOps & Platform

Docker & Kubernetes Orchestration
CI/CD & Automated Deployments
Infrastructure as Code
Observability: Prometheus & Grafana
Blue/Green & Canary Deployments

Security & Compliance

OAuth2/OIDC & mTLS
Encryption & Secrets Management
Threat Modeling & Secure Design
Privacy & Regulatory Compliance (GDPR, HIPAA)
Security-First Architecture Reviews

AI & ML Integration

Production ML Pipeline Integration
Feature Stores & Model Versioning
Model Monitoring & Observability
Responsible & Ethical AI
Data Governance & Privacy Guardrails

Portfolio

Production
Systems

AfyaMkononi

Healthcare Platform

Scalable telemedicine platform serving 5000+ patients and 200+ doctors, with secure video consultations via Google Meet. Combines synchronous and event-driven workflows for chat, appointment booking and payments.

High reliability and scale across multi-tenant operations

Python (Flask) PostgreSQL Redis Caching Event-Driven Architecture OAuth2 & RBAC

LuckyBid

Real-time Auction Platform

High-frequency bidding platform for digital and physical items. Features real-time WebSocket events, anti-sniping mechanisms, fraud detection, and payment processing integration.

40 000 bids processed

Python Flask Redis WebSockets

Health Top-Up Platform

Insurance & Policy Management

Microservices-based platform enabling individuals to access health top-up covers. Features policy management, real-time claims, payment integration, and event-driven notifications for seamless user experience.

Targeting 10M users, designed for high availability and low-latency operations

Java (Spring Boot) MySQL Kafka Redis DARAJA APIs

ABOA Project

Intelligent Platform Autoscaling

AI-driven autoscaling and monitoring platform for microservices and Kubernetes deployments. Uses reinforcement learning to optimize resource allocation, self-heal failing deployments, and reduce operational costs while maintaining SLOs.

Predictive/Reactive scaling

Java (Spring Boot) Python (Flask) Reinforcement Learning Kubernetes

Career

Professional
Journey

2025 - Present

Lead Backend Engineer

VirtualGlobal

Technical strategy for backend and platform services across multiple products. Led architecture reviews and RFCs for microservices design, established API standards and authentication frameworks, implemented observability stack with SLOs and alerting. Built shared libraries for common patterns, instituted on-call practices with runbooks, and drove CI/CD adoption with infrastructure-as-code. Mentored engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and growth planning while delivering brown-bag sessions on Kafka, resilience patterns, and security best practices.

2024

Backend Developer

Meliora Technologies

Contributed to Mulika, a real-time service monitoring platform used by banks and enterprises to track application and transaction performance. Developed backend modules for KPI aggregation, alerts via SMS/email/web, and dashboard visualizations. Implemented monitoring for queues, APIs, and transaction processing, ensuring reliability, observability, and security. Participated in mentoring programs through Natujenge, supporting junior engineers through code reviews and structured guidance.

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Together

Ready to architect solutions?

I thrive on complex system design challenges, from event-driven architectures to responsible AI integration. Whether you're scaling microservices, implementing observability, or building platform engineering capabilities, let's discuss how technical leadership can drive measurable business outcomes.

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