About

An engineer who ships the whole product.

Tuchopini Technologies is the company of Brian Ambundo Katiechi, an electrical and electronics engineer (Kenyatta University, Engineers Board of Kenya graduate engineer) who trained in software at Moringa School and has spent five years building for Kenyan businesses, schools and charities, and for clients in the United States and South Africa.

The work runs from the sensor on the wall to the dashboard in the browser: a prepaid-power prototype where an M-Pesa payment switches a relay, a maths platform where parents pay KES 30 a day, an AI tutor that runs on WhatsApp and on an offline Raspberry Pi, a digital business card app on Google Play, traffic counters that match a transport engineer's survey sheet, and marketing video rendered from code.

Every project starts with a written brief. Every status on this site is honest: live means live, prototype means prototype. Kenya-first is the default (M-Pesa, SMS, phone-number sign-up, light pages, KES pricing) and it travels well.

Roles

  1. 2023 → now

    Founder, Tuchopini Technologies

    Client websites and apps, M-Pesa and AI systems, the Tuchopini exam-solutions brand.

  2. 2026 → now

    Technical Lead, JOAT Kenya

    SchoolMate, Soma AI, BioBiz, Majobo, the JOAT Content Engine, proposals for US clients.

  3. 2024 → now

    Systems Development and Support, Hearts of Love Africa

    Recovered and rebuilt the charity's hacked site; automation and staff training.

  4. 2024

    Operations Manager, 46 Rooftop Fitness Hub

    Networks, security systems, lead-generation integrations.

  5. 2023

    Electrical Engineering Intern, Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority

    Site inspections and regulatory reporting.

Tools we actually use

Web and apps
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Astro, TanStack Start, Flutter, PHP, WordPress/Elementor/WooCommerce, Moodle, Remotion
Backend and data
Supabase (Postgres, RLS, PostGIS), FastAPI, Express, Prisma, Python, Node, Docker, MySQL, Redis
Payments, Kenya
M-Pesa Daraja, Paystack, IntaSend, Safaricom OTP, Uwazi and TalkSasa SMS, Africa's Talking, WhatsApp Cloud API
AI
Claude, Gemini, Groq, Ollama, retrieval (BM25), YOLOv8/OpenCV, faster-whisper, TTS and voice cloning, fal.ai image and video models, MCP servers, Claude Code
Hardware and IoT
Arduino, ESP8266/ESP32, Raspberry Pi, SIM800L GSM, relays, sensors; structured cabling, PABX/VoIP, CCTV
Video and 3D
Blender, Unity 6, Manim, DaVinci Resolve, ffmpeg, Suno, FL Studio
Infra
Cloudflare Pages and Workers, Vercel, Netlify, cPanel/WHM, DigitalOcean, Ubuntu VPS, DNS, SSL, email deliverability

Brands we work with

JOAT Kenya

Virtual assistants, AI automation and lead generation. Brian leads its software and media. joatkenya.com

Full Network Technologies

Structured cabling, PABX/VoIP, CCTV, networks and IT support. fullnetworktechnologies.co.ke