Alicia Kimani - Backend Engineer | ContraWork by Alicia Kimani
Alicia Kimani

Alicia Kimani

Full-Stack Developer | React, Next.js, TypeScript & Supabase

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ReplyFlow — WhatsApp-First CRM & Customer Recovery Platform ReplyFlow is a customer relationship management platform designed to help small businesses manage leads, organize customer conversations, and recover lost sales. It brings customer management, lead tracking, follow-ups, and revenue recovery workflows into one centralized dashboard. Key Features Unified Inbox: Manage customer conversations in one place. Lead Management: Track leads and organize customer information throughout the sales pipeline. Lost Lead Detection: Identify potential leads that may have been overlooked. Customer Recovery: Help businesses re-engage inactive or unresponsive customers. Revenue Recovery: Support follow-up workflows designed to recover potentially lost sales. Automation & Scheduling: Organize follow-ups, appointments, and customer workflows. Analytics & Invoicing: Access business performance insights and invoice management tools. Team Management: Organize customer operations across a team. My Role: Full-Stack Developer Tech Stack: Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4, Supabase, PostgreSQL. Project Goal: Help businesses reduce missed opportunities, improve customer follow-ups, and turn more leads into paying customers. Project Type: SaaS / CRM / Business Automation
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ClientFlow — Barber Business Management Platform My role: Full-Stack Developer Project summary: ClientFlow is a barber business management web application designed to give business owners a dedicated dashboard for managing their operations. The project combines a modern, responsive interface with a backend powered by Supabase. What I built Developed the application using Next.js and TypeScript. Integrated Supabase for database and authentication functionality. Built an owner dashboard with a dedicated login flow. Deployed the application to Vercel.
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Metaverse Game is a real-time multiplayer backend powering a 3D virtual world where users join spaces, customize avatars, and interact with each other live. It's fully tested, containerized, and enforces role-based access throughout. The problem: Multiplayer backends require solving real-time sync, access control, avatar state, and space management all at once. I built this to prove those problems are solvable cleanly — with a proper test suite to back it up. What I built: — JWT auth with role-based access control: admins create/delete spaces and elements; users join, move, and interact — Space management with full CRUD and authorization enforcement — Avatar creation, metadata storage, and customization with unauthorized deletion blocked at the route level — WebSocket-powered real-time layer: position updates broadcast to all users in a space, with graceful disconnect — Zod schema validation on all inputs — Prisma ORM + PostgreSQL for relational data across users, spaces, avatars, and elements — Docker containerization — runs anywhere — Full Jest test suite: 4 suites, 15 tests covering auth, spaces, avatars, and WebSocket edge cases Impact: 15 tests passing across 4 test suites. Role-based access enforced at route level. WebSocket broadcast confirmed end-to-end in tests. Zero environment setup friction — fully Dockerized. Stack: Node.js · TypeScript · Express.js · WebSockets · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Zod · Jest · Docker
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Uber API is a production-ready ride-hailing backend covering the full journey from authentication to ride completion. Users and captains get separate auth flows, real-time location tracking keeps drivers visible on the map, and every ride moves through a verified lifecycle — fare estimate, confirmation, OTP start, and end. The problem: Most ride-hailing tutorials fake the hard parts. I wanted to build all of them — multi-role auth, real-time location, Maps API integration, and a complete ride lifecycle — end to end, in one clean backend. What I built: — JWT + bcrypt authentication for two actor types (users and captains) with role-specific middleware — Real-time captain location broadcast via Socket.IO (http://Socket.IO) — Maps API integration: coordinate lookup, distance + ETA calculation, and address autocomplete — Full ride lifecycle: create request → get fare → captain confirms → OTP-verified start → end ride — 14 REST endpoints across 4 route groups (/users, /captain, /maps, /rides) — React (Vite) frontend for interacting with the API Impact: 14 fully functional endpoints. Two-actor auth system working end-to-end. Real-time location broadcast and OTP-secured ride handoff both verified in production. Stack: Node.js · Express.js · MongoDB Atlas · Mongoose · JWT · bcrypt · Socket.IO (http://Socket.IO) · Maps API · React
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