In charge of the development of the On Board Computer Subsystem.Responsible for Flight Software and general firmware development.

Developing low-level drivers for microcontrollers used in aerospace components.Designing and developing firmware for satellite and aerospace components.Debugging and profiling performance of developed firmware.Developing Python Payload Application to integrate SayariLabs Payload Processor with host satellite.

I participated in several Human Centered Development (HCD) sessions that focused on the ideation process based on problems people are currently facing. The HCD ideation birthed the project of developing an IoT-enabled Access Control system.The access control system was designed to to use RFID tags, passcodes or online authentication via phone, to unlock doors in a building. The system was to detect an exiting person using proximity sensors, to allow for a contact-less implementation.The system was also meant to log all entries to a central database for an administrator to monitor. The system's connection to a central system also allowed for mobile phone authentication to be used to unlock the doors.I was part of the team that designed the embedded system, focusing on the devices used as well as the software. I was an integral part of the team that developed the software for the main system's micro-controller that was to be deployed on the doors. I was tasked with the coordinating of the programming team as well as combining and integrating the pieces of code from each team member into the final system.Even with the tight 1 month schedule a prototype of the Access Control system was successfully developed, implemented and tested.

The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) awarded five Kenyan Universities, including the UoN, a grant of KShs 1 million each for the development of a CubeSat bench-model by the students of the university. The CubeSat developed by UoN was named NaSPUoN. NaSPUoN had two missions: earth observation, and to store and forward LoRa data from remotely located ground nodes.I was appointed the Electrical team leader, and I was tasked with the coordination of the development of the different electrical subsystems which included: On Board Computer, Communications Subsystem, Electrical Power Subsystem, and LoRa Mission subsystem. I was also in charge of the integration of the different subsystems with each other as well as the integration with the structural subsystem.As part of the leadership, I led the team to develop the best ranked CubeSat from among the other Kenyan universities that were offered a similar grant by KSA. Following the ranking, UoN was named the host of the KSA research chair and was awarded another grant of KShs 3 million for the development of a space-grade CubeSat.My other contribution was on On-Board Computer and Communications subsystem. I programmed, implemented and tested the satellite communication software as well as Ground station software. The satellite software ran on a Raspberry Pi Zero that was running Raspberry OS. The ground station software was developed using Microsoft Visual C++ windows form application tools.

Following the COVID lockdown, I was eager to take up a new skill with the break from school. So I spent the break learning how to program using the Flutter cross-platform Software Development Kit (SDK). I chose to learn Flutter mainly because of its Google backing and flexibility - it can be used to develop apps for Android, iOS, and web using the same code base. Support for mac, Windows and Linux was added later on.I developed a multiplayer android and iOS game based on the cards game, hearts. I published and released the game on Google Play Store under the developer Warmware Labs (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WarmwareGames.hearts&hl=en&gl=US). A release on the Apple store was not done because of financial constraints and feasibility.The networking of the game required me to acquire skills on computer networking so as to use UDP sockets to achieve peer-to-peer (P2P) communication. This involved research into techniques such as STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT).