Daniel Migwi

Daniel Migwi

Forward Deployed Engineer · Go & AI · Nairobi, Kenya

Summary

Forward Deployed Engineer helping businesses bring AI into their internal processes. Before that, 10+ years building high-reliability Go systems for fintech and crypto, owning projects from system design through production.

Skills

Experience

Forward Deployed Engineer

Jul 2026 – Present
  • Help businesses integrate AI into their internal processes, from scoping to working deployments.
  • Evaluate how capable AI models really are with Tapoo, an AI agent behaviour profiler.

Senior Backend Engineer Bonsai, Raedah Group

Jan 2021 – Jun 2026

Self-custodial blockchain trading and wallet platform built in Go.

  • Architected and led the core Go backend: trade execution, wallets and multi-chain integrations.
  • Designed fault-tolerant execution and recovery pipelines where financial correctness was critical.
  • Built CI/CD on GCP plus monitoring and testing that cut regressions across the platform.

Backend Developer Energi Cryptocurrency

Sep 2019 – Dec 2020

Tested consensus-critical Go code, shipped Solidity changes and resolved production node crashes.

Software Developer (Contractor) Decred

Aug 2018 – Sep 2019

Redesigned the block explorer's database schema and built most of its analytics charts.

Software Developer Andela

Jul 2016 – Aug 2018

Top 1% of developers across Africa. Built a real-time crypto price dashboard and trained 20+ fellows.

Education

MSc Computer Engineering Vistula University

Oct 2023 – Apr 2025

Distinction · Mobile Applications specialization · Warsaw, Poland

BSc Computer Science Maasai Mara University

May 2012 – May 2016

Second Class Upper · Kenya

Projects