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./🤔 $Whoami
const aspiringEngineer = {
identity: "Daniel Maina ",
title: "Aspiring Software Engineer & Devops Engineer",
location: "Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪 🇰🇪",
education: "Computer Science Student",
philosophy: "Build, Learn, Iterate, Improve",
specialties: [
"System Design & Architecture",
"Web Development",
"Java SpringBoot & Backend development ",
"AI & Automation Projects",
"Cloud engineering & Devops",
"Problem Solving",
"Continuous Learning",
],
status: "I dont just write code ,I architect the future 🤺"
};#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
for repo in personall-portfolio German-Chatbot PearlVistaDental_services redmi-tracker; do
git clone "https://github.com/kamaukavana-dev/$repo"
done
# Frontend apps (portfolio, German-Chatbot, PearlVistaDental_services): npm install && npm run dev
# German-Chatbot needs: cp .env.example .env → add GEMINI_API_KEY
# redmi-tracker (FastAPI): python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt
# needs DATABASE_URL + TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN in .env → uvicorn main:app --reloadProduction-ready frontend applications demonstrating modern web development, responsive user experiences, and AI-powered solutions.
| 🌐 Project | 📝 Description | ⚙️ Technologies | 🟢 Status | 🔗 Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🛒 Jibambe Ecommerce | Modern ecommerce platform delivering responsive shopping experiences, intuitive product discovery, scalable UI architecture, and seamless customer interactions. | React • Tailwind CSS • Vercel | 🟢 Live | 🌍 Launch |
| 👨💻 Personal Portfolio | Interactive developer portfolio showcasing engineering projects, technical expertise, and immersive 3D experiences with modern animations. | Next.js • React • Three.js • Tailwind CSS | 🟢 Live | 🌍 Launch |
| 🦷 Pearl Vista Dental Services | Professional healthcare platform delivering a polished digital presence, responsive design, and modern patient-focused experience. | React • Tailwind CSS • Vercel | 🟢 Live | 🌍 Launch |
| 🇩🇪 German AI Chatbot | AI-powered language learning assistant enabling conversational German practice with intelligent feedback and real-time AI interactions. | React • Gemini API • AI | 🟢 Live | 🌍 Launch |
Cloud-deployed backend systems built with production-ready architecture, secure authentication, scalable persistence, caching, observability, and modern engineering practices.
| 🚀 Service | 📝 Description | ⚙️ Technologies | 🟢 Status | 🔗 Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 📦 Catalog API | Enterprise-grade product catalog and inventory platform supporting multi-warehouse inventory management, optimistic locking, Redis caching, AWS S3 media storage, Flyway database migrations, structured observability, and scalable REST architecture. | Java 21 • Spring Boot • PostgreSQL • Redis • AWS S3 • Docker • Flyway | 🟢 Live | 🌐 Health Check • 📂 Repository |
| 🔐 User Management API | Enterprise-grade identity and access management service implementing JWT authentication, role-based authorization, refresh tokens, Redis-powered distributed rate limiting, PostgreSQL persistence, Dockerized deployment, and production security best practices. | Java 21 • Spring Boot • PostgreSQL • Redis • Docker • JWT • Swagger | 🟢 Live | 🌐 Health Check • 📖 Swagger Docs • 📂 Repository |
| 📍 Real-Time GPS Tracking Platform | Production GPS tracking backend featuring live device tracking, geofence monitoring, automatic breach detection, Telegram push notifications, historical location analytics, scheduled background processing, secure API-key authentication, and cloud deployment. | Python 3.12 • FastAPI • PostgreSQL • SQLAlchemy • APScheduler • Telegram Bot API • Railway | 🟢 Live | 🌐 Live Service • 📖 Swagger Docs • 📂 Repository |
- Minimal Public Surface: The public Live API (Secure Probe) endpoint intentionally exposes only a lightweight health response (
ok) to verify service availability without revealing operational details.- Protected Management Endpoints: Internal diagnostics, metrics, and management endpoints are isolated from the public interface and reserved for operational monitoring, reducing unnecessary exposure of infrastructure details.
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Microservices • REST APIs • Cloud-Native • Event-Driven Systems • CI/CD • Observability
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
— Harold Abelson
I strive to build software that is scalable, maintainable, and understandable—not merely functional.
© 2026 Daniel Maina | Aspiring Software Engineer
Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪 🇰🇪