Sam Karanja

Web Developer & Software Engineer

Software engineer with 10+ years building and shipping large-scale production applications, primarily in the public sector and healthcare domains. Strong backend foundation in PHP/Laravel paired with modern Vue.js front ends, plus hands-on DevOps, cloud, and monitoring experience. A perpetual student — dynamic, fast to learn, and quick to adapt.

Technical Skills

Backend

PHP (Laravel Framework) — 10 years experience

Delivered 5+ major production apps

Front End

Vue.js — 5 years experience

Primary JS framework

Databases

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Supabase

DevOps

Git, GitHub workflow tools, Docker, VMware, Linux

Cloud Infrastucture

DigitalOcean, AWS

Monitoring

Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, custom tooling

AI & Coding Tools

Gemini, Claude, Claude Code (coding agent)

Currently Learning

Go (Golang)

Other Interests

📚 Library & Reviews

🛠️ Good Tools Recommendations

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