GodwillBarasa

Work 01

SpaceYako

Property platform for Kenya, owned and operated by Lock & Mercer

The decision that shaped everything else: agents pay to list, seekers never pay, and no money moves between users. That rules out escrow, rules out disputes over deposits, and keeps the platform out of the flow of funds entirely.

Verification was the harder call. A badge sits against an agent only while it can be substantiated. The moment it cannot, it comes off. A verification that never gets withdrawn is decoration, not verification.

Work 02

Business Report

Independent Kenyan business publication

I rebuilt it as a server-rendered newsroom and carried the archive across on a redirect map verified against production. The map is the deliverable: every indexed URL either resolves or redirects, and the check runs against the live site, not a spreadsheet.

What went wrong first: after the cutover, certificate renewal lapsed. Mail was up the whole time, but to everyone on the outside it looked down. The fault was the certificate, not DNS. I now treat certificate issuance as part of the cutover itself, not a thing that follows it.

Work 03

Khendo FM

Radio station across Western Kenya and the North Rift

Migrated off WordPress. The part I care about: the site reads on-air state and now-playing from the broadcast itself. A station site that says what is playing because someone typed it into a CMS is wrong within the hour. One that reads the broadcast cannot drift.

Work 04

COFEK

Consumers Federation of Kenya

A rebuild of cofek.africa. The constraint that mattered: the audience is on the connection people actually have, not the one in a device lab. Everything about the build follows from taking that seriously.