// senior frontend engineer

Robert Kibet

Builds privacy-first browser tooling and high-performance web infrastructure.

Lead Product Developer at Finsweet. 5+ years architecting developer tools, SaaS platforms, and scalable web systems used by thousands of production websites. Promoted from Software Engineer to Lead in 16 months.

// role Lead Product Developer
→ stack TypeScript, Svelte, React, Cloudflare
→ based East Africa, GMT+3
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Experience

Finsweet

Remote (USA)
Lead Product Developer Jan 2024 — Present
  • Architected and shipped Consent Pro, a privacy compliance SaaS platform handling GDPR/CCPA requirements end-to-end.
  • Led distributed team building Finsweet Components — scaled to 2,400+ live sites, 950M+ CDN requests on jsDelivr.
  • Established frontend engineering standards, CI/CD workflows, and component governance for enterprise clients including Dropbox.

Finsweet

Remote (USA)
Software Engineer — Core JavaScript Sep 2022 — Jan 2024
  • Built Finsweet Attributes, a JS utility library surpassing 950M+ downloads, serving as foundational infrastructure for Webflow developers.
  • Engineered two Svelte-based Webflow extensions featured on the Webflow Marketplace.
  • Built internal service APIs using HonoJS on Cloudflare Workers with serverless edge architecture.

Credmark PTE

Remote (Singapore)
Software Engineer (Consultant) May 2022 — Aug 2022
  • Delivered Credmark Terminal, a DeFi analytics dashboard with real-time on-chain data visualizations.
  • Integrated MetaMask and Web3.js for wallet connectivity and on-chain data queries.

Safaricom PLC

Nairobi, Kenya
Software Engineer Jul 2021 — Apr 2022
  • Led frontend revamp of Masoko e-commerce platform — migrated to Next.js with GraphQL APIs on AWS EC2.
  • Contributed to Masoko mini-app within the M-PESA super app, a PWA initiative targeting 50M+ users.
  • Created company-wide reusable UI component library with Storybook.js.

Diwala

Remote (Norway)
Software Developer Apr 2020 — Jul 2021
  • Contributed to Africa's first decentralized skill verification platform with blockchain-backed credential portability.
  • Implemented features across React and React Native in a yarn workspace monorepo.
  • Integrated micro-frontend architecture using single-spa.js with Terraform IaC on GCP.

Selected Projects

Consent Pro

Privacy compliance SaaS — cookie consent banners, tracker detection, and automated compliance scanning for Webflow, Framer, and Wix.

  • Browser runtime IIFE driving accept/reject flows across 14 CMP providers
  • Puppeteer + Chrome DevTools Protocol scanning on Cloudflare Workers
  • Durable-Object-per-project SSE architecture for real-time scan updates
TypeScriptSvelte 5Hono.jsCloudflare WorkersDurable ObjectsD1

Finsweet Components

Reusable component infrastructure for the Webflow ecosystem. 2,400+ live production websites, 950M+ CDN requests.

TypeScriptJavaScriptjsDelivr CDNesbuild

Masoko E-Commerce

Led the frontend migration of Safaricom's e-commerce platform from legacy stack to Next.js with GraphQL, targeting 50M+ M-PESA subscribers.

Next.jsReactGraphQLReduxAWS EC2

Stack

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • HTML5
  • CSS3

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Svelte 5
  • SvelteKit
  • Vue.js
  • React Native

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Hono.js
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs

Infrastructure

  • Cloudflare Workers
  • D1
  • KV
  • R2
  • Durable Objects
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Terraform

Tooling

  • Puppeteer
  • Playwright
  • esbuild
  • Vite
  • Storybook
  • Git