01 · Distributed work
Slow work leaves the request; failures are retried and recovered.
API
queue
- worker 1done
- worker 2running
- worker 3retry 2/3
APIqueueworkersretry
Building reliable
systems for real-world problems.
- Previously
- IFAD · Andela
- Now
- Building Trustplot
- Education
- BSc Software Engineering · AUCA · 2025
Work that had to keep working.
One UPI search checks a plot against 11 national map layers, and says “Unknown” when a source has no data.
Next.js · PostGIS · ArcGIS REST
Read case studyUploads return straight away; Celery workers retry a failed job 3 times with backoff before marking it FAILED.
FastAPI · Celery + Redis · PostgreSQL
Read case studyCut failed jobs 60% with retry and recovery in the document pipeline, with APIs under 200 ms.
React + TypeScript · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Azure Service Bus · LLM APIs
Read case study
−60%failed jobs after retry and recovery work
Work that had to keep working.
Trustplot
One UPI search checks a plot against 11 national map layers, and says “Unknown” when a source has no data.
Next.js · PostGIS · ArcGIS REST
Read case studyDocFlow
Uploads return straight away; Celery workers retry a failed job 3 times with backoff before marking it FAILED.
FastAPI · Celery + Redis · PostgreSQL
Read case studyAI Workspace at IFAD
Cut failed jobs 60% with retry and recovery in the document pipeline, with APIs under 200 ms.
React + TypeScript · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Azure Service Bus · LLM APIs
Read case study
Impact
Trustplot
Unknown
shown when a source has no data, never a guess
11
national map layers checked in one UPI search
4 pages
PDF report, with the source and date of each fact
DocFlow · built into the code
3
retries with backoff before a failed job is marked FAILED
300
pages a document can have and still be questioned, using retrieval
6
services started with one docker compose up
AI Workspace at IFAD
−60%
failed jobs after retry and recovery work
<200 ms
API response while document analysis ran in the background
14
document and language features on one shared platform
Hope Tuyishime- 2026 – now
- Software engineerTrustplot, Kigali
- 2025 – 2026
- Backend & AI engineeringIFAD, Rome
- 2025
- BSc Software Eng., DistinctionAUCA, Kigali
Hello, I'm Hope
Most recently at IFAD, a UN agency in Rome, I built asynchronous document-processing services with FastAPI, PostgreSQL and Azure Service Bus. Now I'm building Trustplot. Next, I want a backend team where reliability and data are the job.
Now
Since May 2026Building Trustplot
Land and property intelligence for Rwanda. One search checks a plot against 11 national map layers.
Read the case studyBased in
Kigali, Rwanda
Central Africa Time · UTC+2
Open to backend engineering roles
What I handle well
- Messy, incomplete data
- Long-running background jobs
- Third-party integrations
- Clear failures, safe retries
02 · Backend
Fast, typed APIs with clear contracts and honest errors.
POST /documents
201 Created
{ "status": "QUEUED" }
03 · Data
Schemas, spatial data and queries tuned for real workloads.
04 · AI
AI features with a human in the loop where it matters.
- document.pdf
- OCR
- extract
- retrieve
- human review
05 · Shipping
Tested, containerised and deployed by CI.
testbuilddeploy
2026 — NowTrustplotSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineer
Designed and built a land and property intelligence platform for Rwanda: UPI parcel search, interactive mapping, zoning and risk screening, reference valuation and automated reports, on PostGIS and ArcGIS data.Case study
2025Adventist University of Central AfricaBSc (Honours) Software EngineeringBSc (Honours) Software Engineering
Graduated in software engineering with Distinction.
2025 — 2026IFADFull-stack Software Engineer (Internship)Full-stack Software Engineer (Internship)
Built FastAPI and PostgreSQL services for document ingestion, OCR, extraction and review (~100 documents a day), with Azure Service Bus workers that kept APIs under 200 ms and cut failed jobs by 60%.Case study
2024 — 2025AUCA Innovation CenterSoftware Engineer ApprenticeSoftware Engineer Apprentice
Developed Java, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL REST APIs for academic and financial management systems, with relational models and tuned SQL for transactional workloads.
2024NetFellaSoftware Engineer InternSoftware Engineer Intern
Built Node.js and TypeScript services and event-driven pipelines for real-time telemetry, with secure REST APIs and access control between distributed components.
2023 — 2024AndelaSoftware Engineer ApprenticeSoftware Engineer Apprentice
Developed multi-tenant REST APIs for authentication and authorisation, improved database performance with indexing and SQL optimisation, and contributed GitHub Actions CI/CD.