Kelvin E. Jayanoris

Senior software engineer and technical lead with 15+ years building production software. Recent work: Rust/Solana at Star Atlas, LionClaw for local AI agents, and geospatial/data platforms at Ona. Best in small teams with ambiguous problems, real ownership, and correctness on the line.

• Owned 80%+ of production Rust/Solana programs across gameplay, asset management, and protocol logic.
• Designed state machines, account models, and transaction flows around asset safety, upgrade safety, and economic integrity.
• Helped create Star Frame, an internal framework for Solana program architecture, account validation, tests, and developer workflows.
• Built early prototypes for Star Atlas's browser strategy layer: SAGE's on-chain fleet/resource/crafting loops and Holosim's fleet management gameplay.
• Built test suites and CI/CD, reviewed protocol code, and mentored engineers in Rust and Solana architecture.

• Managed and mentored a 7-engineer team building public-health, geospatial, survey, and field-data platforms.
• Led architecture, planning, code review, and delivery across Django, React, PostgreSQL, ETL, dashboards, and infrastructure automation.
• Mapped field operations to offline-capable data collection, warehousing, and reporting.

• Led work across Onadata, mSpray, Reveal, and Kaznet: offline field collection, geospatial operations, ETL, and dashboards.
• Built Django services, PostgreSQL models, Apache NiFi pipelines, Superset dashboards, ETL jobs, and Ansible automation.
• Delivered mSpray/Reveal field-to-dashboard pipelines for malaria/vector-control programs: spray coverage, household tracking, and campaign monitoring.
• Led Kaznet implementation for ILRI market-data collection: tasking, contributor management, GPS/time-stamped submissions, review flows, and React/Django APIs.

• Primary engineer for a live restaurant discovery platform in Kenya; owned features, infrastructure, deployments, and production support.
• Migrated the legacy platform to Laravel, reducing technical debt and maintenance load.
• Built customer-facing features, restaurant listing workflows, and internal admin tools.

• Designed, built, and operated an African video-on-demand platform as CTO/sole developer.
• Owned backend, frontend, Android app, deployments, operations, user accounts, playback, catalog publishing, and admin tooling.
• Supported the platform through acquisition and handover.

• Built LionClaw, a local-first Rust control plane for coding agents: durable sessions, scheduled jobs, project context, and explicit credential handling.
• Runs agents inside Podman-backed workspace boundaries with runtime profiles, controlled mounts, network policy, and audit logs.
• Trusted core covers policy, state, runtime launch, session continuity, jobs, installable skills, and channel bridge APIs.

• Placed 2nd in Solana Sandstorm with Flash Loan Mastery, a Solana flash-loan platform.
• Implemented Rust/Anchor infrastructure for atomic transaction orchestration, state verification, and on-chain execution.

Bachelor of Science in Applied Accounting

ACCA

Regenerative agriculture, off-grid systems & appropriate technology, powerlifting, geopolitics.

English, Swahili