Ebrahim Hakimuddin Tayabali

Kinondoni Road, Dar-es-salaam · +255 693 022 451 · ebrahim@ebrahim.co.tz · github · linkedIn

Experience

GroWorx SA

Software Developer
  • Building applications that synchronise with ERP systems, keeping operational data consistent across platforms.
  • Delivering features end to end, from data model to user interface, within a distributed remote team.

Tristar Investment Co. Ltd

IT Consultant & Data Analyst
  • Assessed the company’s technology landscape and recommended improvements to efficiency, security and scalability.
  • Analyzed large datasets for business insights using Excel and Python on data extracted from Tally.

Burhani Infosys

Software Development Intern
  • Designed, developed and maintained responsive web applications across several technology stacks.

Hussaini Pharmacy

Inventory Management & POS Specialist
  • Digitized inventory records and managed stock levels electronically, reducing discrepancies.

Academic Mentor and Home Tutor

Educator
  • Provided tailored one-on-one instruction to students across a range of ages and academic levels.

Education

Academic Achievement Open School

Cambridge International AS and A-Levels (GCE)

Al Madrasa tus Saifiya tul Burhaniyah

Certificate Of Secondary Education (CSEE)

Technologies

Projects

AI-Assisted Learning Management System

Tanzania Digital Lab
  • Built an LMS for course delivery, user management and content organization, with learner, educator and admin roles.
  • Implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) AI tutor grounded in uploaded course material.

Document Management & Invoice Approval System

  • Built a multi-tenant platform routing invoice document sets through staff review into a customer portal.
  • Implemented scoped role-based permissions, presigned object-storage uploads, audit trails and offline PWA delivery.

Leave Approval & HR Workflow System

  • Modelled a multi-stage leave approval workflow across five roles, with scoped authority and approver overrides.
  • Added leave-balance accrual, on-behalf submissions, PDF and Excel reporting, and push notifications to approvers.

Offline-First Cloud ERP

  • Designed a multi-tenant ERP foundation with organisation onboarding, typed end-to-end APIs and local-first sync.
  • Used Postgres change streams for live client replication and an offline queue that reconciles writes on reconnect.

Enterprise Networking

OpenWrt Network and Segmentation Lab

  • Administered OpenWrt on a D-Link DIR-853 A3, configuring DHCP, DNS, firewall zones, routing and wireless.
  • Designed segmented networks for trusted devices, servers, IoT and surveillance equipment.
  • Configured pfSense and OPNsense for routing, firewalling, VPN connectivity and access control.
  • Diagnosed ISP bridge-mode issues involving PPPoE, carrier-provided routers, NAT and TR-069/ACS.

Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Maintain a multi-service homelab covering virtualization, application hosting, storage and monitoring. Experience deploying isolated Docker Compose stacks with persistent volumes, health checks and restart policies; exposing services over HTTPS through Nginx, Caddy and Cloudflare Tunnels while keeping backends on internal networks behind UFW; running ERPNext, Odoo, Baserow and Umami on PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis; and managing DNS and mail records (A/AAAA, MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) alongside routine Linux server administration and backups.

Certificates

Achievements

Participant, Data Tamasha Africa 2026 Innovators Panel

Best Male Delegate, 23rd Tanzania International Model United Nations (TIMUN)