I build software that works and teach people who will.
17 projects shipped. 11 countries. Full-stack products, market intelligence platforms, scraping infrastructure, and the robotics teams that won silver on the world stage.
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Kristian Hans Onjala
Full-Stack Engineer
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Engineering work, community impact, public thinking, and the person behind it all. Explore what matters to you.
Work
Shipped products with real users, real constraints, and full technical breakdowns. No toy projects.
Impact
Mentorship, leadership, and community work that produced measurable outcomes, not just attendance.
Press & Writing
Public appearances, published thinking, and the ideas that drive the engineering.
Life
Context beyond the terminal. Travel, reading, and the things that make the work sustainable.
Featured Work
Projects that shipped, not projects that sat
Real users, real constraints, full implementation details. Open any project to see the engineering.
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Tools I ship with
- React 19
- Express 5
- PostgreSQL
- Puppeteer Stealth
- Socket.io
- Paystack
- Cheerio
- JSDOM
- Node-cron
- JWT
- Tailwind CSS
- Next.js 16
Biography
The short version
Full-stack engineer with production experience at The Artisans Company and Sidebrief. Cofounder of Venturely, a market intelligence platform tracking 20,000+ startups globally. Technical Mentor for FIRST Global Team Kenya since 2023, coaching teams that have competed across five countries and brought home international awards. Mathematics and Computer Science, JKUAT.
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You have seen the work, the impact, and the thinking. If you are looking for someone who builds and teaches with equal rigor, the next step is a conversation.
17 shipped projects across full-stack, mobile, IoT, AI, and e-commerce.
Production engineering experience at The Artisans Company and Sidebrief.
Silver Medal at FIRST Global 2025: 1st Runners Up in Winning Alliances, Panama City.