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Paul Mutemi

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I'm a software engineer and technologist focused on building scalable cloud native applications, intelligent and production ready software designed for long-term impact. My work spans backend engineering, cloud infrastructure and AI integration across technology-driven markets.

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Paul Mutemi
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532K+ App Users
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01.

About Me

Dynamic Software Engineer with expertise in backend and cloud engineering. Proven ability to deliver scalable software solutions and optimize system performance.

Experienced in building high-throughput production applications serving millions of daily requests. Excels in agile environments, contributing to project success through effective communication and teamwork.

Pursuing a Master of Science in Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Karatina University.

Cloud Developer — Udacity
Cyber Security Analyst — CyberShujaa Bootcamp
Meta Backend Professional Certificate — Coursera
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  "role": "Cloud & Software Engineer",

  "location": "Nairobi, Kenya",

  "focus": ["APIs", "Microservices", "AI/LLM"],

  "cloud": ["AWS", "GCP", "Azure"],

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02.

Technical Skills

Backend

PythonDjangoDjango REST FastAPIFlask

Cloud & DevOps

AWSAzureGCP DockerKubernetes TerraformGitLab CI/CD

AI / LLM

OpenAIClaudeGemini RAG PipelinesAgentic AI LangChain

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQL MongoDBRedis

Frontend

ReactNext.js HTML/CSSTailwind CSS

Tools & Messaging

GitRabbitMQCelery KafkaRedis
03.

Experience

Backend Software Engineer

New Age Remote June 2024 — Present
  • Leads team designing high-throughput APIs within a distributed microservices architecture serving millions of daily requests.
  • Builds and deploys cloud-native, fault-tolerant microservices within budget constraints on GCP, AWS, and Azure.
  • Develops scalable APIs for RAG systems integrating vector embedding models for large-scale knowledge base querying.
  • Deploys and monitors cloud applications using VMs and Containers across multiple cloud providers.
PythonDjangoFast APIFlaskRAGMicroservicesCloudDockerMonitoring & ObservabilityLangChainLangGraph

Software Engineer

PawaIT Solutions Ltd — Nairobi, Kenya Feb 2024 — May 2024
  • Built automated audio data pipeline with Whisper model, streamlining AI transcription workflow by 45%.
  • Designed AI customer insight platform integrating OpenAI Whisper and LangChain for automated audio transcription and sentiment analysis.
  • Built distributed task queue (Celery + RabbitMQ) with Redis cache, cutting processing latency by 40% handling thousands of concurrent tasks per minute.
PythonCeleryRabbitMQRedisOpenAIFast APIETL PipelineFfmpeg

IT Support Specialist

Mastercard Foundation/USIU Africa — Nairobi, Kenya April 2023 — Feb 2024
  • Led cross-functional team initiatives achieving 25% improvement in overall systems efficiency.
  • Created automated reporting scripts consolidating system metrics, reducing report generation time by 60%.
  • Configured Active Directory user management enforcing least-privilege on critical infrastructure.
Active DirectoryAutomationLinuxSystems Admin

Lead Python Instructor

Power Learn Project — Nairobi, Kenya May 2022 — April 2023
  • Led pan-African mentorship across 5 countries, elevating program graduation rates by 20%.
  • Organized quarterly hackathons engaging 500+ participants, accelerating practical skill development.
  • Designed a full-stack software engineering curriculum covering version control, agile methodologies, and real-world projects.
PythonDjango & DRFCurriculum DesignMentorship

Open-Source Community Mentor

Black Python Devs — Florida, USA Volunteer July 2024 — Nov 2024
  • Led mentorship for 10+ developers, establishing structured learning paths for open source contribution.
  • Workshops on Git fundamentals and PR workflows resulted in 100+ successful first-time contributions with an 80% merge rate.
PythonGitOpen SourceMentorship
04.

AI & Automation

Across production systems serving millions of users, I integrate large language models, computer vision, and speech AI into real business workflows — not prototypes. Every integration below is live in a shipped product.

LLM Integration

Integrated OpenAI GPT-4, Claude, and Google Gemini APIs into production iOS backends handling grammar correction, AI chat, and intelligent document processing for 532,000+ active users.

Grammar AI Checker Chat 5.0

RAG Pipelines

Built Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems using ChromaDB, vector embeddings, and sentence-transformers to ground LLM responses in large-scale knowledge bases — deployed at New Age serving millions of daily requests.

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Speech & Audio AI

Orchestrated AI pipelines with OpenAI Whisper for large-scale audio transcription and sentiment analysis, processing thousands of concurrent audio tasks per minute. Also integrated neural TTS and Wav2Lip for lip-synced avatar generation.

PawaIT Solutions Voice Translator Obi Avatar

Computer Vision & OCR

Built an OCR pipeline using Azure Computer Vision and OpenCV for real-time image-based currency recognition within a live App Store application, enabling offline and online image processing at scale.

Currency Converter

AI Workflow Automation

Used LangChain to orchestrate multi-step AI pipelines — from audio ingestion through transcription, sentiment scoring, and structured output — replacing manual data processing workflows and improving throughput by 45%.

PawaIT Solutions

Agentic AI Systems

Designed and built fully local agentic desktop assistants using Ollama, RAG, and streaming LLM inference — zero API-key dependency, on-device inference with document-grounded responses for privacy-first enterprise use cases.

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05.

Projects

App Store

Grammar AI Checker & Corrector

iOS Application · 532,000+ Users

A productivity app elevating English grammar — sentence corrector, plagiarism checker, spell check, document editor, and punctuation checker. Backend integrates OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini models for intelligent text and document processing.

532K+ Users GCP + Azure
PythonDjango RESTGCPAzure PostgreSQLOpenAIClaudeCeleryRedisRabbitMQ
App Store

Currency Converter

iOS Application · Live Exchange Rates

Live exchange rate calculator with offline mode for travelers. Built an OCR pipeline using Azure Computer Vision for image-based currency recognition and integrated real-time currency APIs for accurate conversions worldwide.

Azure CV OCR Online & Offline
PythonDjango RESTGCPAzure OpenCVComputer VisionCeleryRedisRabbitMQ

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Local-First Desktop AI Assistant

Desktop AI assistant (PyQt5) that answers from a PDF knowledge base via RAG (ChromaDB + local embeddings), Ollama for LLM inference, Whisper for speech-to-text, neural TTS, and Wav2Lip for lip-synced avatar — fully on-device, zero API keys.

PythonPyQt5RAGChromaDB OllamaWhisperWav2LipOpenCVFFmpeg
CMU · 15619

Cloud Computing Platform

Carnegie Mellon University · Distributed Systems

End-to-end cloud-native platform built for CMU's Cloud Computing course. Engineered a Spark/Scala ETL pipeline processing large-scale Twitter datasets into structured MySQL schemas, a high-performance Go web service containerised with Docker, and full infrastructure-as-code provisioning via Terraform and Kubernetes — deployed across auto-scaling clusters.

Spark ETL at Scale K8s Orchestration
GoScalaApache SparkKubernetes TerraformDockerMySQLAWSHCL
Ongoing

MyPowerly

E-Signature & Tax Returns Platform · US Market

Complete e-signature workflow and sales tax returns application for US residents. Handles individual, S-Corp, C-Corp, partnerships, and fiduciary returns across multiple states with Google Drive and Microsoft 365 integration.

PythonFastAPICeleryRedis RabbitMQAWSPostgreSQL
App Store

English Dictionary Offline

iOS Application · Thesaurus & Vocabulary

A comprehensive offline English dictionary covering 500,000+ words with meanings, synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation audio, and daily word features — accessible anytime without an internet connection. Built for students and professionals looking to expand vocabulary and improve writing.

Fully Offline 500K+ Words
PythonDjango RESTPostgreSQL GCPAzure
App Store

Voice Translator: All Languages

iOS Application · AI Voice Translation

Real-time voice translation across 100+ languages — speak naturally and get instant translations without typing. Designed for international travelers, business professionals, and language learners. Features conversation history, offline support, and a clean interface that eliminates language barriers mid-conversation.

100+ Languages Real-Time Voice
PythonDjango RESTAI Models GCPPostgreSQLRedis
App Store

Chat 5.0: Ask AI Chatbot

iOS Application · Text, Image & Speech Generator

An AI-powered writing assistant integrating ChatGPT-4 for students, writers, and professionals. Generates structured paragraphs, essays, emails, stories, and poems. Includes grammar and style checking, mathematical equation solving, and AI image generation — all in one productivity platform.

GPT-4 Powered Multi-Genre Writing
PythonDjango RESTOpenAI GCPPostgreSQLCeleryRedis
06.

Get In Touch

Open to Backend and Cloud Engineering roles. Whether you have a project, an opportunity, or just want to connect — my inbox is always open.

pmutemi@andrew.cmu.edu
laupmutemi@gmail.com
+254 718 769 551
Nairobi, Kenya
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