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Hi 👋, I'm Xavier Frankline Odhiambo

Senior Backend Engineer | Python, Django, AI/LLM Systems | AWS Certified | Open Source Contributor

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🧑‍💻 About Me

  • 🔭 Most recently a Senior Software Engineer at Search Atlas, building Django/DRF/Celery microservices for SaaS reporting on Google Search Console, GA, Google Ads & Meta Ads
  • 🌍 Previously at Code for Africa, backend on civic-tech platforms (Mediacloud Story-Indexer, Wazimap-NG, Sensors.Africa, Open.Africa)
  • 🤖 Recent focus: LLM orchestration across multiple providers, RAG pipelines (LlamaIndex, pgvector), and self-hosted open-source model deployment (Ollama, OpenWebUI)
  • ⚙️ Also spend time in DevOps & SRE territory: Kubernetes, Ansible, Elasticsearch cluster architecture and benchmarking, OpenTelemetry instrumentation
  • ☁️ On GCP at Code for Africa: deployed Outline VPN for secure internal access, and provisioned TPU infrastructure for the data team
  • 🌱 Currently exploring Go and going deeper on distributed systems
  • 🪶 Open-source contributor to Django and CKAN
  • 📜 AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)
  • 💼 Open to new backend and AI engineering opportunities, remote or Nairobi-based

🛠️ Tech Stack

Languages

Python JavaScript SQL Bash

Backend Frameworks

Django DRF FastAPI Flask Celery

AI & LLM

OpenAI Anthropic LlamaIndex Ollama

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL ClickHouse Elasticsearch Redis RabbitMQ

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes Ansible Terraform

Observability & CI/CD

OpenTelemetry Grafana Prometheus Sentry GitHub Actions

📊 GitHub Stats

✍️ Writing

I write about backend engineering, distributed systems, and production debugging.

➡️ xodhiambo.com/blog

🤝 Connect with Me

Thanks for stopping by! ⭐️ a repo if it helps you.

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  1. story-indexer story-indexer Public

    Forked from mediacloud/story-indexer

    Python

  2. ckanext-datarequests ckanext-datarequests Public

    Forked from CodeForAfrica/ckanext-datarequests

    A plugin that allows users to request data that is not published yet

    Python

  3. CodeForAfrica/openAFRICA CodeForAfrica/openAFRICA Public

    openAFRICA aims to be largest independent repository of open data on the African continent. This repo contains the primary deployment scripts and files. Accessible at https://open.africa

    Dockerfile 33 13

  4. CodeForAfrica/sensors.AFRICA-api CodeForAfrica/sensors.AFRICA-api Public

    The sensors.AFRICA API receiving, storing, and processing data received from sensors across the continentent. Accessible at https://api.sensors.africa/

    Python 18 8

  5. es-cluster-benchmark es-cluster-benchmark Public

    Elasticsearch cluster acceptance benchmark harness (Rally): indexing throughput, query latency ladder, and mixed read/write workload for freshly provisioned clusters

    Shell