Senior Software Engineer & Lead Systems Architect based in Nairobi, Kenya — 5+ years designing, building, and scaling enterprise-grade financial systems, ERPs, and distributed microservices.

• 🏦 Currently architecting core-banking synchronization middleware, KRA eTIMS tax-compliance integrations, and high-throughput background processing (Hangfire/RabbitMQ)
• 🚀 Founder @ Pronic Labs — an independent software studio ("Engineered, Not Bought") building purpose-built systems across FinTech & Cooperatives (payment gateway integrations), Institutional EdTech (Acadexa), Construction & Engineering (UltraPMS), Real Estate Tech, Logistics & Supply-Chain, and Enterprise Operations
• 📈 Recent impact: 45x API throughput gains, zero-downtime compliance migrations for national retail chains, and systems serving 130+ universities & 350+ institutions across Kenya
• 🧠 R&D on the side: RAG hallucination reduction and algorithmic trading systems (see below)
• 🤖 All-in on AI-assisted engineering — LLM agents for architecture drafting, automated test generation, and legacy-to-modern refactors
• 🎨 Started out as a graphic designer/brand identity — still shapes how I approach UI/UX and prototyping today
• 📫 Reach me at nicks@pronic.co.ke

Design & prototyping — before engineering, it was graphic design and brand identity:

• Neural Knowledge Retention (NKR) Framework — open-source deep learning framework reducing faithfulness hallucinations in RAG pipelines via a custom Contrastive Grounding Loss (PyTorch), fine-tuned on Llama-3 & Mistral-v0.3; >20% hallucination reduction vs. Self-RAG/DoLa baselines on legal & biomedical Q&A.
• Algorithmic High-Frequency Ingestion Engine — real-time trading bot over high-throughput WebSockets (Deriv API), with async state management built for low-latency, data-driven execution.

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