Products I founded

Lab

Client builds

$ ls ./workEvery case study, in depth6 builds. Architecture, decisions and real code.All case studies
$ cd ./creative

The other half of the work.

Design, brand, strategy and growth for the products I build and the brands I work with.

Creative & Strategy overview
Featured · MagazineChill Minds, Vol. 1A36 pages
$ cat ./takes

Takes.

Anime, films, life lessons, Kenya and 2 a.m. thoughts. Honest, in my own words.

All takes
$ whoami

Levis Kibirie.
Call me Levo.

I build the product, design the brand and write the plan to sell it. Founder of Makeja Homes, The Real Estate OS. Based in Nairobi, working with anyone serious.

See the workLet's talk
Illustrated 3D character of Levis Kibirie presenting
less talk,
more ship.
$ cat story.md

The short version.

I started writing software in 2017 and never found a reason to stop. A degree in IT, a detour through security, then the part that actually taught me: shipping for clients who only paid when it worked.

ShanTech Agency put me in front of 12+ Kenyan businesses that needed sites, ads and funnels to pay for themselves. Makeja Homes came from watching a property manager drown in paper leases, cash rent and missing records. So I built the system that fixes it.

Today I run both sides of the table. The code, and the brand, positioning and growth plan around it. That is the whole point: no handoff where the idea gets lost.

$ git log --reverse

How I got here.

  1. 2017Education

    Software Development Certificate

    ICT Authority Kenya

    First formal grounding in software engineering. The start of everything.

  2. 2020Education

    Cybersecurity and pen testing

    Zalego Institute of Technology

    Ethical hacking, penetration testing and security fundamentals. First security tools.

  3. 2020 to 2024Education

    BSc Information Technology

    Kenyatta University, Second Class Upper

    Software engineering, networks, databases and systems architecture.

  4. 2022Work

    IT Intern

    Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs

    Government infrastructure, network management and systems support.

  5. 2024Founded

    Founder, ShanTech Agency

    Digital agency, Kenya

    12+ SME clients. Websites, funnels, ads and content that had to pay for themselves.

  6. 2024Founded

    Founder, Makeja Homes

    The Real Estate OS

    A multi-tenant property platform built from zero. 4,500+ tenants and 5,000+ units on it.

  7. 2025Cert

    Oracle Cloud AI Foundations

    Oracle

    Cloud and AI fundamentals, internationally certified.

  8. 2025Built

    Launched GhostNet

    Cybersecurity training platform

    13 modules, 8 tools, a live leaderboard and an AI operator. Built from scratch.

  9. 2026Building

    NSE Research Agent

    In development

    AI market intelligence for the Nairobi Securities Exchange.

$ cat package.json

The toolkit.

Engineering on one hand, brand and design on the other. Same person, same standard.

Frontend
TypeScriptNext.jsReactTailwind CSSGSAP
Backend
Node.jsPostgreSQLPrismaREST APIsSupabase
AI and data
PythonLLM APIsGroqAgents
Payments
PaystackM-Pesa DarajaWebhooksReconciliation
Infrastructure
VercelNeonDockerGitHub Actions
Design and brand
FigmaInDesignTypographyBrand systemsVeo
$ ls ~/beyond-the-code

Who I actually am.

The opinions live in Takes. The rest is here.

01

Anime

Fullmetal Alchemist, Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga. The philosophy in these is real. Don't argue.

02

Markets

An NSE investor building the research tool he always wished existed.

03

Editorial

Designed Chill Minds Magazine, 72 pages. Printed, distributed, real.

04

Nairobi to the world

Proof that world-class products ship from anywhere. Including here.

01Technical

The builds

Architecture, decisions, real code and what I would do next.

02Creative and strategy

The brand, the plan, the growth

Design, positioning and the strategy that sells what gets built.

$ ./hire --levo

Open to the right room.

Senior remote roles, serious builds, partners and investors. Replies within a day.

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