Isaac Mbira

I'm a senior full-stack software engineer with 14+ years of programming experience and a decade of professional web and mobile development across startups, consultancies, and product companies. I architect, build, and ship production systems end-to-end — greenfield backends, cross-platform mobile apps, enterprise management portals, and AI-powered products. I'm AWS and Azure certified, with deep experience in cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling.

Most recently I've led engineering across three products for an IoT-connected smart parking platform — a Flutter mobile app, a Vue 3 management portal, and a greenfield FastAPI backend — and before that built AI-powered tools, including a RAG-based legal chatbot, as a senior consultant at Slalom Build.

I also take on consulting and contract engagements — software engineering, cloud architecture, AI/LLM integration, payments, and web development — through my practice, Internet Native Mechanics Tech.

Outside client work, I maintain a few smaller projects of my own: a reusable WooCommerce M-PESA gateway, a Lighthouse-budgeted WordPress theme, and this site — migrated from WordPress to Astro for a fully static, maintenance-free portfolio.

I care about correctness at system boundaries, security that doesn't get in the user's way, and code that reads clearly months later.