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Engineer who ships, operates, and owns the outcome

Systems that go from an empty repository to production on Linux servers — with accountability for what happens after deploy.

Currently Technical Lead at Favitech Solutions on enterprise-grade Laravel systems — a financial platform processing live transactions, plus document management and point-of-sale products that real companies run their business on. Working across architecture, security, and production deployment.

Through TechXtraSol, a studio that builds products for clients across fintech, retail, real-time communication, and education — taking full ownership from system design to server administration, and sharing what is learned on the engineering blog.

The toolset spans the backend — PHP, Laravel, Go, Redis, queues, WebSockets — chosen for one reason: they carry load reliably in production.

Security-first

Secrets, auth, and audit trails are designed in, not bolted on.

Performance is a feature

Measure, profile, and tune until production numbers hold up.

Own it end to end

Architecture, code, deployment, and the 2am alerts — the full loop.

Portrait of Norman Bii, Senior Laravel Developer

Norman Bii

Senior Laravel Developer · Nairobi, KE

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Currently

  • Leading an enterprise financial platform processing live transactions
  • Shipping secure file management and RBAC across enterprise systems
  • Running TechXtraSol — client products, hosting, and the engineering blog
  • Mentoring junior developers and setting engineering standards
Experience

A track record of shipping

From leading enterprise teams to building products — a track record, not a list of keywords.

Senior Laravel Developer / Technical Lead

Current

Favitech Solutions Limited·Jan 2026 — Present

Technical lead on an enterprise financial platform — combining hands-on architecture with team mentorship and engineering standards.

  • Lead end-to-end development of an enterprise financial platform processing live transactions — owning data modeling, API structure, and module separation.
  • Designed and implemented enterprise RBAC across financial modules, enforcing granular permission boundaries between user roles.
  • Engineered Google Authenticator 2FA across all authentication flows, hardening account security for financial system users.
  • Built multi-step approval workflows so sensitive financial operations pass structured authorization chains before execution.
  • Architected session management with configurable timeouts, concurrent-session detection, and forced invalidation for compliance.
  • Established audit logging across critical operations — capturing actor, action, timestamp, and affected record.
  • Shipped a secure internal file management system with role-based document access, adopted company-wide.
  • Mentor a team of junior developers, run code reviews, and define coding standards the whole team follows.

Junior Laravel & Vue Developer

Favitech Solutions Limited·Sep 2025 — Dec 2025

Maintained and enhanced enterprise financial systems built on Laravel, Vue 3, Redis, Nginx, and Apache.

  • Designed and built the internal file management system from scratch — uploads, categorization, access control, and retrieval — adopted company-wide.
  • Delivered bug fixes, feature additions, and backend API improvements across production systems with zero downtime incidents.
  • Collaborated with senior engineers and QA to ship features under production deadlines, taking on technical feedback fast and building deep domain knowledge in enterprise financial software.

Founder & Lead Developer

Current

TechXtraSol·Feb 2025 — Present

Founded and operate TechXtraSol — an IT solutions company and developer content platform — handling product development, client delivery, hosting infrastructure, and business operations.

  • Architect and ship client web applications using Laravel backends, Nuxt frontends, and Linux server deployments.
  • Implemented AI integrations and Google API automation workflows to streamline content management and user engagement.
  • Maintain hardened Linux servers with Nginx/Apache, SSL, and routine security audits.
  • Publish technical articles and tutorials, growing an audience of developers and career switchers across East Africa.
  • Optimized platform SEO and Core Web Vitals, improving organic visibility and retention.

Digital Media Analyst (Intern)

Media Council of Kenya·Mar 2024 — Jun 2024

Monitored and analyzed broadcast media content across Kenya’s radio and TV stations for regulatory compliance with the Journalist Code of Conduct.

  • Applied OSINT tools (reverse image search, EXIF analysis) to fact-check media claims.
  • Produced structured weekly reports on violations and patterns for senior analysts and council leadership.
  • Proposed process improvements that reduced manual analysis time.

C# Full-Stack Developer (Intern)

TheJitu·Jul 2023 — Oct 2023

Built hospital management and e-commerce systems using ASP.NET Core and Blazor WebAssembly.

  • Built a hospital management microservice on ASP.NET Web API — patient records, scheduling, and billing modules.
  • Delivered an e-commerce platform on ASP.NET Core + Blazor WebAssembly with catalog, cart, and checkout flows.
  • Configured Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual release overhead.
  • Integrated Azure Message Bus to decouple services for reliable async processing.

BSc. Information Technology

Karatina University·Aug 2019 — May 2023

Degree focused on software development, database management, and networking.

  • Reached the national stage of the Huawei ICT Networking Competition among Kenya’s top networking students.
Certifications

Proof of continuous learning

Security, concurrency, and infrastructure — the edge skills that make backend code production-safe.

2022

HCIA — Huawei Certified ICT Associate (Networking)

Huawei

Routing, switching, IP fundamentals, and enterprise networking.

2023

C# Full-Stack Web Development

Short Course · Kenya

ASP.NET Core, Web API, Blazor WebAssembly, and cloud-backed full-stack delivery.

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