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nickhargreaves/README.md

Hi, I'm Nick Hargreaves 👋

Fractional CTO · Distributed systems & AI · Nairobi, Kenya

Experience Focus AI Domain

About me

CTO and technical leader designing and scaling distributed fintech systems across Africa for 15+ years. I've led engineering at Koa/Lotus, Choice Bank, and Onafriq — building payments infrastructure, banking-as-a-service, and cross-border money movement.

Today I run Hiruko, where I build SaaS products and provide fractional CTO advisory to startups and fintech teams. Hands-on across architecture, cloud, DevOps, and AI.

🚀 Products I'm building

Product What it is
Kazios Modular, agentic ERP for growing teams
Lifing Private, offline, AI powered app built for individual use designed to turn intention into daily action
AkiliQuest Gamified learning platform with chat-style questions, stories, leaderboards, streaks, and group trivias.

🤖 Working with AI

LLM integration & AI-assisted engineering. I build AI into products to extend capability, and into team workflows to lift engineering velocity — from customer-facing AI tools at Choice Bank to AI-native development practices across my teams.

🛠 Tech stack

Area Tools
Languages Python · TypeScript · Java · SQL
Backend Django · FastAPI · Microservices · Event/Domain-driven design
Cloud & Infra AWS (EKS, IAM, VPC, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch) · GCP · Docker · Kubernetes
Messaging Kafka · RabbitMQ · Event-driven architecture
DevOps GitOps (ArgoCD) · Vault · Infrastructure as Code · CI/CD
AI LLM integration · AI-assisted development workflows

📫 Connect

Website Hiruko Medium LinkedIn

15+ years across fintech and civic tech — applying the same principle everywhere: strong technical foundations create business leverage.

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    A local-first control plane for agentic software development: verification that can't be gamed, activity telemetry with no collector or container, and two dashboards — one shareable, one live — ove…

    HTML

  2. Loan-Management-System Loan-Management-System Public

    This project implements a simplified backend for a digital lending platform using Spring Boot. The system supports loan product configuration, loan lifecycle management, customer management, and ev…

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  3. ClaudePowerUser ClaudePowerUser Public

    AI-augmented task & project tracker built as the running project for a seven-phase curriculum in using Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Cowork at an expert level: coding, agentic workflows, testing…

    Python

  4. robin-onboarding robin-onboarding Public

    Tools and a skill for onboarding a new client's existing knowledge into Robin Wiki. Covers discovery, extraction, and logging — from a seed URL to a fully populated Robin knowledge base.

    Python