Enoch Kambale · Nairobi, Kenya (GMT+3) · Open to senior roles, remote or relocation

Full-Stack & AI Engineer

I ship whole products: frontend, backend, infrastructure, and the AI on top. Five years in, ex-CTO, currently deep in US legal tech at GitLaw.

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5+ yrs: Production experience
Ex-CTO: Founder of 4 products (Jobzy)
eSign lead: US legal-tech @ GitLaw
Open source: Published npm CLI + tools

Featured Work

Priority Soft (2026–Present): ACA Compliance Platform

A healthcare-compliance platform for a US tax resolution practice that automates IRS ACA reporting: Form 1094-C/1095-C generation, employee coverage tracking, payroll ingestion, and validation. Built solo, architected to commercialize as a SaaS product.

Sole engineer · IRS 1094-C/1095-C generation · Turborepo + Drizzle · Playwright E2E + CI quality ratchet

GitLaw (2025–Present): AI Legal Companion for Business Workflows

An AI legal companion where teams can draft, review, edit, sign, and store legal documents in one workflow. Includes lawyer-vetted templates, plain-language contract explanations, tracked changes, secure storage, reminders, organization management, and billing.

eSign lead · built change requests, sharing, billing & files · full-stack (Next.js + NestJS) · one of GitLaw's most active engineers

Jobzy (2020–2025): Multi-Product Platform

A suite of products across multiple subdomains: a public service marketplace, an Africa-focused recruitment & employee verification platform, a backend server integrating payments/AI/verification/search, and a mobile app for job seekers.

Co-founder/CTO, founded at 16 · 20,000+ engagements · Startup of the Year, 2023 East Africa Com Awards · PayPal + M-Pesa

jobzy.africa recruit.jobzy.africa verify.jobzy.africa+1 more

PDF Pal (2024): Chat with PDFs using RAG

A web app that lets users upload PDFs and ask questions in natural language using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) over the document.

Live · streaming RAG · per-document vector isolation · page-level embedding

Eckeka (2025–Present): Packaging Risk & EPR Intelligence MVP

A vertical SaaS MVP for packaging sustainability and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) tracking, featuring a typed recyclability & circularity scoring engine, compliance tracking, and AI-generated risk reports.

MVP · typed recyclability & circularity scoring engine · Supabase RLS (34 policies) · gpt-4o structured reports

VidScript (2025): Video-to-PDF Notes CLI

An open-source CLI tool that converts videos (local files or YouTube URLs) into structured AI-generated PDF notes using on-device Whisper transcription and LLMs, with optional RAG for long content.

Open-source · published to npm (5 releases, v1.0.6) · on-device Whisper (zero transcription cost)

TypeScript

commander

fluent-ffmpeg

@xenova/transformers (Whisper)

Experience

2026 – Present

Full-Stack Engineer, Priority Soft

Building an ACA (Affordable Care Act) compliance platform for a US tax resolution practice, with plans to commercialize as a SaaS product. Sole engineer on the project.

Turborepo monorepo with Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript (strict), and Tailwind CSS 4 with a design token system
Unified Drizzle ORM + PostgreSQL data layer with migration guardrails and CI enforcement
Background job processing with BullMQ + Redis for parsing and PDF generation workers
IRS Form 1094-C/1095-C generation, validation, and cross-reference diagnostics
File parsing pipeline for payroll data ingestion with LLM-assisted normalization
Playwright E2E testing, quality scorecard ratchet, and Railway-based staging CI/CD

2025 – Present

Full-Stack Engineer · eSign Lead, GitLaw

One of GitLaw's most active engineers, working full-stack (Next.js + NestJS). Lead on the free eSign workflow, and builder of change requests, sharing, billing, and file management, so users can draft, review, sign, and store legal documents in one place.

eSign lead: 100% free electronic signatures with PDF field placement, multi-role signing, delivery, and reminders (full-stack)
Change requests: the collaborative redlining/review core, with suggest mode, accept/reject, send-back, and merge
Sharing: share modal, receiver send-back, link-based access, and fork-via-link
Billing, full-stack on Stripe: checkout, subscriptions, usage tracking, org billing, and credits
Community: public library of lawyer-vetted templates with discovery, publishing, and SEO pages
Files: document management with Elasticsearch search, version history, metadata, and forking
Team tooling: custom oxlint plugin, gRPC-typed contracts, and Tailwind class-validation linting

2025 – Present

Technical Product Lead (Part-Time), Eckeka

Leading technical product development for a packaging risk and transparency intelligence MVP focused on sustainability and EPR compliance in Kenya.

Typed recyclability and circularity scoring engine (migrated off Postgres functions)
Supabase with Row Level Security for multi-tenant isolation
Structured AI report generation with gpt-4o (Vercel AI SDK)
EPR compliance tracking (NEMA registration, fees, PRO partnerships)

2025

Open Source, VidScript

Built an open-source CLI that converts videos into structured AI-generated PDF notes using Whisper, LLMs, and Pinecone-backed RAG.

On-device Whisper transcription via @xenova/transformers
Claude / GPT note generation with configurable model selection
Pinecone RAG path for long transcripts exceeding context windows
Published to npm (5 releases, v1.0.6)

2025

Open Source, YouTube Research Agent

Built an open-source Python CLI that searches YouTube, summarizes transcripts using GPT-3.5 Turbo (LangChain map-reduce), and emails a research digest.

YouTube Data API v3 search with view-count ordering and transcript extraction
LangChain map-reduce summarization chain (gpt-3.5-turbo, temperature=0)
SMTP/TLS email delivery of formatted research digests
Orchestrator pattern with separated search, summarization, and email modules

2024

Project, PDF Pal

Built a SaaS application for conversational Q&A over PDFs using a RAG pipeline with OpenAI embeddings and Pinecone.

Upload & processing pipeline: PDF to chunks to embeddings to Pinecone
Chat pipeline: embed question, similarity search, stream OpenAI response
Per-document Pinecone namespaces for vector isolation
tRPC for end-to-end type safety
Split-pane UI: chat + PDF viewer (zoom, rotate, fullscreen)
PayPal subscription billing across four tiers

2020 – 2025

Co-founder & CTO, Jobzy

Built multiple Jobzy products end-to-end: a service marketplace, recruitment and employee verification platform, backend server, and a cross-platform mobile app.

Service marketplace (jobzy.africa) with search and autocomplete
Recruitment and employee verification platform across multiple African countries
Node.js/TypeScript backend powering payments, AI features, and search
Cross-platform mobile app (React Native/Expo) with job aggregation and AI tools
Dual payment methods: PayPal and M-Pesa
AI-powered content generation and semantic search using OpenAI
Containerized deployment on Azure with CI/CD

Technical Depth

Tools and systems used in the shipped work documented on this site.

AI Systems

OpenAI / GPT
Google Gemini
LangChain
RAG Pipelines (Chunking, Embedding, Retrieval)
Vector Databases (Pinecone)
AI-Generated Regulatory Reporting
On-Device Inference (Whisper)

Frontend Architecture

Next.js (App Router, SSR, RSC)
React 19 / Server Components
TypeScript (strict)
TipTap / ProseMirror
Tailwind CSS / Radix UI

Backend & Services

Node.js / Express / NestJS
tRPC / REST APIs
Microservices Architecture
Stripe / PayPal / M-Pesa Billing
Database-Level Computation (PostgreSQL)
Message Queues & Background Processing

Infrastructure

Docker
Azure / GCP / Vercel
PostgreSQL / Redis / Elasticsearch
Supabase (RLS, Auth)
CI/CD Pipelines

Open Source

I maintain additional open-source projects on GitHub beyond what is listed on this site.

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Writing

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The Race Condition Hiding in Your useEffect

You fetch data inside a useEffect and it works in every test you run. Then someone clicks fast and sees the wrong data. This is the race condition sitting in almost every client side fetch, and the reason the cleanup function is not optional.

7 min read

React Portals: The Escape Hatch You're Already Using

React Portals let you render components outside the DOM hierarchy while preserving React's event system. You're probably already using them through Radix and Shadcn without realizing it.

14 min read

Senior Devs Vibe Code Too

After a long blogging break, I'm back with a blunt take: I've fully embraced AI and vibe coding, and it has fundamentally changed how I build software.

11 min read

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I'm open to full-time roles, contract work, and the occasional consulting project. I read everything that comes in.

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