Astra Development Studio
Founder & Software Engineer
Registered consultancy delivering contract engineering to startups in fintech, e-commerce and healthtech. 20+ engagements delivered alongside full-time studies.
- ▸Built end-to-end checkout and payments for a UK e-commerce client, integrating Stripe and PayPal with idempotency keys, automatic retries and webhook reconciliation to prevent duplicate charges and lost orders on dropped connections or repeated provider callbacks.
- ▸Designed the payment backend and frontend interfaces for a fintech startup, covering mobile-money and card flows across third-party providers.
- ▸Built a booking and scheduling platform for a Kenyan therapy provider with an accessibility-focused frontend, coordinating delivery across a 10-practitioner remote team.
- ▸Shipped multiple custom e-commerce platforms against headless CMS backends, owning architecture, implementation and deployment.



