{ "generated_at": "2026-04-17T14:25:39Z", "name": "Stanley Okwii", "location": "London, United Kingdom", "summary": "A senior Full-Stack Engineer with 6+ years building web and mobile products in Python and TypeScript on AWS and GCP. I build systems end-to-end, from AI assistants and payment platforms to large-scale data pipelines. I thrive as a technical lead or individual contributor, turning ambiguous requirements into production systems that serve real users.", "contact": { "email": "stanlee.okwii@gmail.com", "phone": "+44 7570 488 532", "location": "London, United Kingdom", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanley-okwii/", "linkedin_handle": "stanley-okwii", "github_url": "https://github.com/Stanley-Okwii", "github_handle": "Stanley-Okwii" }, "skills": [ { "label": "Programming", "details": "Python, Javascript, Typescript, Dart, HTML, CSS" }, { "label": "Databases", "details": "PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, pgvector" }, { "label": "Libraries and Frameworks", "details": "Django, FastAPI, Flask, Express, React, Next.js, Node.js, Flutter, Redux, Angular, ReactNative, GraphQL" }, { "label": "AI/ML", "details": "RAG Pipelines, LLM Integration (Claude, Gemini), Vector Search, Embeddings, Hybrid Retrieval" }, { "label": "Tools and Platforms", "details": "AWS (ECS, Bedrock, CloudFormation), GCP, Supabase, Docker, Git, GitHub Actions, Celery, Redis Streams, Sentry, New Relic" } ], "experience": [ { "position": "Founding Engineer", "company": "Access to Energy (Stealth)", "period": "Jan 2026 — Present", "location": "London, UK", "summary": "AI research assistant for energy access in Africa — helps researchers, NGOs, and energy professionals get evidence-based answers with citations, drawn from a trusted library of sector reports and publications.", "highlights": [ "Built an AI research assistant that answers questions with cited sources from a curated document library, improving answer accuracy by 35% over a basic search baseline.", "Designed and deployed the cloud infrastructure on AWS, automating environment setup and cutting provisioning time from days to under 15 minutes.", "Built a document processing pipeline that handles hundreds of files at once, making uploaded content searchable in minutes instead of hours.", "Designed a multi-tenant platform with secure data isolation and per-organisation usage tracking, enabling onboarding of multiple research organisations on a single shared system." ] }, { "position": "Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Full-time)", "company": "Harver", "period": "Mar 2023 — May 2025", "location": "New York, USA", "summary": "Left Harver in May 2025 to focus full-time on completing my MSc at Birkbeck, University of London.", "highlights": [ "Owned end-to-end architecture and delivery of 3+ client-facing software projects across a Python backend and React frontend, making key technical decisions on security, performance, and long-term maintainability.", "Drove project planning across engineering, product, and design — scoping requirements, managing technical trade-offs, and delivering projects on schedule.", "Authored technical documentation of core system workflows, reducing onboarding time for new engineers by 15% and establishing shared knowledge across the team.", "Shaped engineering hiring by leading 15+ technical interviews, assessing candidates on system design, code quality, and problem-solving." ] }, { "position": "Full-Stack Software Engineer (Full-time)", "company": "Harver", "period": "Sep 2019 — Mar 2023", "location": "New York, USA", "summary": "", "highlights": [ "Improved application observability by implementing structured logging and monitoring, cutting debugging time by 25%.", "Built analytics dashboards providing clients with actionable insights into talent growth and mobility metrics across their organisations.", "Identified and resolved performance bottlenecks through systematic profiling, achieving a 15% improvement in API response latency.", "Automated the release process by building CI/CD pipelines, resulting in 20% faster deployment of frontend applications." ] } ], "projects": [ { "name": "Hoppers (Event Ticketing Platform)", "role": "Full-Stack Software Engineer (Contract)", "period": "Oct 2025 — Present", "location": "Remote", "highlights": [ "Built a payment system integrating multiple providers with commission tracking, automated settlements, and booking-fee snapshots for accurate revenue reconciliation.", "Implemented QR-code ticketing with secure generation, server-side validation, and per-user purchase limits with safeguards to prevent double-bookings under heavy traffic.", "Shipped a team management system with invitations, permission controls, and organiser metrics dashboards — delivering major features across backend, admin, and mobile as primary contributor." ] }, { "name": "CareerFoundry (Online Coding Bootcamp)", "role": "Full-Stack Web Development Mentor (Freelance)", "period": "Mar 2023 — Jan 2026", "location": "Berlin, Germany", "highlights": [ "Provided technical mentorship and project feedback to 23+ students in the Full-Stack Web Development program at CareerFoundry.", "Maintained a consistent 5/5 student rating for quality of feedback, supportiveness, and responsiveness." ] }, { "name": "Utidash - New Tab (Productivity Chrome Extension)", "role": "Full-Stack Software Engineer (Contract)", "period": "Sep 2020 — Nov 2020", "location": "Berlin, Germany", "highlights": [ "Implemented new features for a productivity Chrome extension serving over 6,000 users, which led to a 12% increase in daily active usage." ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Birkbeck, University of London", "area": "Advanced Computing", "degree": "MSc", "period": "Oct 2024 — Sep 2025", "location": "London, UK", "highlights": [ "Graduated with Merit" ] }, { "institution": "Makerere University", "area": "Software Engineering", "degree": "BSc", "period": "Aug 2014 — Sep 2018", "location": "Kampala, Uganda", "highlights": [ "Graduated with 2:1 (Upper Second Class Honours)" ] } ] }