Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer · Nairobi, Kenya

I build distributed systems, IoT platforms, and the occasional robot.

Hey, I'm Rodney. I studied mechatronics for five years and now I write Go and Rust for a living: scalable backends, message brokers, and the quiet plumbing that keeps data moving. I also organise Python-Nairobi (opens in a new tab) and RoboKE (opens in a new tab), and write about the systems I take apart.

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What I work on

Distributed systems & messaging

Multi-tenant IoT and commerce platforms in Go and Rust: message brokers, event streaming with Kafka and RabbitMQ, GraphQL APIs, and observability you can actually debug. Core contributor to SuperMQ / Magistrala; author of Serengeti, a plugin-extensible MQTT broker in Rust.

Full-stack & interfaces

I don't stop at the API. I led the Magistrala UI's move from Go templates to Next.js, and build the React and TypeScript front-ends that sit on the systems I ship.

Edge & WebAssembly

Propeller, a WebAssembly orchestrator that runs workloads close to where data is made, not in a far-off region.

From metal to mechatronics

Five years of mechatronics engineering, a homelab that earns its rent, robots that move on their own, and the occasional detour into quantum machine learning.