Summary
Francis Maina is a Senior Software Engineer with 4.5+ years building scalable, backend-first systems and AI-driven products from MVP to production. As a founding engineer at Virro and Senior Engineer at Creative Bits AI, he blends Node.js, Next.js, and AWS expertise with practical LLM and media-generation engineering to deliver monetizable creator tools and enterprise automation. He has deep experience in healthcare interoperability and compliance, having architected HL7/FHIR-based EMR and RCM systems for the Middle East, and a track record of shipping payment and FinTech integrations across startups. Product-minded and metrics-focused, Francis pairs technical ownership with a strong emphasis on retention, observability, and cost-efficient LLM ops. He volunteers engineering time to nonprofits working on climate, civil rights, and child welfare, and off-hours you’ll find him on a sportbike or competing in FC26.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at Moringa School
Programming in Python, Programming in Python at Udemy Alumni
Bachelor of Economics and Statistics, Bachelor of Economics and Statistics at University of Nairobi