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Infrastructure reliability engineering for African fintechs
African fintech is scaling faster than the infrastructure under it. Flutterwave rails, M-Pesa integrations, API-driven banking — the products are ready before the systems underneath them are. That gap is where platforms crash during peak traffic, and where trust gets lost in a single bad afternoon.
I've spent years in DNS, CDN, and BGP-level optimization, and in building systems that keep working when the network doesn't cooperate. That's the specific problem I help fintech, logistics, and healthtech platforms solve.
Taking On Founding Clients
This consulting practice is early-stage. Instead of case studies from past clients, here's what I can show you directly: live, working engineering research, in the open.
Tell me what's breaking →Opens an email — describe your system and I'll reply with next steps.
The Proof — Public, Ongoing, Updated in the Open
Internet Under The Hood
A live lab measuring real DNS, TLS, HTTP/3, CDN, and BGP behavior — not theory. Automated health checks run continuously.
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Resilient Distributed Systems Lab
A self-documenting chaos engineering lab: daily reliability journals, weekly controlled-failure experiments, recorded over time.
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AlphaCore Framework
A Rust concurrency engine built on a shared-nothing architecture, designed to keep processing through unstable power and network conditions.
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FinTech Risk Lab
Credit risk and fraud-signal analytics, built with reproducible Python and SQL-first thinking.
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Building connections. Solving complex problems. Enabling businesses to scale.
Brilliant Unicorn Ltd is a Nairobi-based solutions company serving businesses across energy and technology.
We operate across two complementary areas of expertise: solar and energy solutions, and technology and fintech infrastructure. In both, our role is to identify the right solutions, bring the right parties together, and provide the expertise required to deliver reliable outcomes.
Solar & Energy Solutions
We facilitate connections between Kenyan businesses and qualified solar providers and installation partners. By understanding each business's requirements and matching them with suitable technical providers, we help simplify the process of sourcing and implementing dependable energy solutions.
Technology & Fintech Infrastructure
We provide technical consulting and infrastructure support to technology-driven businesses operating in demanding digital environments. Our work encompasses system architecture, DNS and network configuration, API and logic-flow analysis, and infrastructure optimization—helping businesses build resilient systems capable of supporting growth and real-world workloads.
Across every engagement, Brilliant Unicorn is guided by the same principle: combine the right expertise, infrastructure, and partnerships to create solutions that are dependable, scalable, and built for long-term value.
Correctness first
Systems must be reliable before they're fast or flashy.
Measurability
If you can't measure it, you can't trust or improve it at scale.
Secure by design
Security is never an add-on — it's baked in from day one.
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