I’m Magdaline Luke, a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in distributed systems, secure API integrations, and fintech. I apply rigorous engineering to AI safety, security, and trustworthy systems.
I build backend services, mobile applications, and integrations for complex real-world systems.
At Safaricom, I’ve worked across financial services, insurance integrations, API infrastructure modernization, and production troubleshooting. Security-sensitive services shaped my interest in failure modes, safeguards, and dependable AI.
AI safety & alignment · AI security · Adversarial robustness · Research engineering
Open to international opportunities
Independent products and collaborative innovation.
Award-winning team project · 2026
Co-developed a fintech innovation concept that simulates merchant and customer journeys, identifies friction points, and uses Grok AI to generate recommendations. Winner of Safaricom’s Decode Game Changers Challenge.
Independent product · Published
Designed, built, and published a personal organization app for tasks, budgets, goals, journals, and events, using Flutter and Riverpod.
Marketplace application
Developed a residential marketplace supporting buying, selling, renting, payments, and role-based experiences for apartment communities.
Safaricom PLC
Build and troubleshoot distributed fintech integrations. Investigated complex HTTP client and payment failures, and strengthened session validation and access controls in insurance APIs.
Safaricom PLC
Developed Marine Cargo Insurance integrations, contributed to insurance and marketplace workflows, and supported enterprise API proxy migration from Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid.
Safaricom PLC
Contributed to backend and mobile engineering for Bill Manager, Device Financing, and other enterprise financial technology services.
PYCS Ltd
Developed C#/.NET services, REST APIs, SQL Server integrations, and banking and USSD transaction workflows.
Java · Spring Boot · Spring WebFlux · FastAPI · REST APIs · Kafka · RabbitMQ
AWS · Google Cloud · Docker · Jenkins · CI/CD · Apigee Hybrid
OAuth 2.0 · API authorization · Session validation · Integration testing · Root-cause analysis
Python · Java · C# · JavaScript · Dart · SQL · PostgreSQL · SQL Server
Flutter · Riverpod · React · Kotlin · .NET
Cross-functional collaboration · Production troubleshooting · Technical ownership · Research curiosity
Master’s research · Ongoing
Exploring the roles of data governance, cloud sovereignty, and AI governance in national digital transformation, including responsible technology adoption and trustworthy digital infrastructure.
Read the proposal ↗Research interest
Empirical evaluation of model behavior, safeguards, and adversarial robustness.
Research interest
How models respond to malicious inputs, trust-boundary violations, and security-sensitive workflows.
Education M.Sc. ICT Management, JKUAT (ongoing) · B.Sc. Computer Technology, JKUAT
Have a meaningful problem?
Interested in reliable systems, AI safety, research engineering, or thoughtful product development? I’d love to connect.
hello@megnifylabs.com ↗