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Allen Muhani

Senior Technical Product Manager | Ethereum Developer Tooling & Infrastructure

Kenya

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Engineer-turned-Product Manager with 4+ years driving developer-facing product roadmaps in the Ethereum ecosystem and 5+ years of hands-on software engineering in Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, and Solidity. Direct production use of Hardhat across DeFi and tokenization projects. Co-founded two Ethereum infrastructure ventures. Experienced in API/CLI/SDK product design, PRD authoring, and roadmap ownership.

Work Preferences

Salary

GBP 60,000 โ€“ 200,000

Skills

Product Roadmap Management9/10
Hardhat9/10
PRD & Product Documentation9/10
Ethereum / EVM9/10
JIRA / Confluence / Figma8/10
TypeScript (8/10)Smart Contracts (8/10)Java (8/10)API Design & Developer UX (8/10)Solidity (8/10)Web3.js (7/10)DeFi Integrations (Uniswap, Aave, SushiSwap) (7/10)Docker / Kubernetes / CI/CD (7/10)Ethers.js (7/10)Kotlin (7/10)NestJS / GraphQL (7/10)PostgreSQL / MongoDB (7/10)Slither (Static Analysis) (7/10)Spring Boot / Quarkus / Vert.x (7/10)Anchor (Solana) (6/10)

Work Experience

Co-Founder & Technical Product Manager

Nash

Jul 2022 โ€” Dec 2025

Co-founded a Web3/FinTech product studio; owned end-to-end product roadmaps for developer-facing infrastructure products including APIs, integration SDKs, and technical platform features. Authored PRDs and feature specs, defined API behaviour and CLI/SDK interaction patterns, served as primary product contact for engineering teams, evaluated technical feasibility, conducted user interviews, and pitched product strategy to investors and ecosystem stakeholders.

Lead Developer Relations

CELO Africa DAO

Jan 2022 โ€” Jul 2022

Ran technical developer relations for a Layer-1 blockchain ecosystem. Delivered technical workshops, onboarding content, and SDK integration guides for Web3 developers. Helped teams align product builds with SDK standards and participated in CELO Developer Council and DAO governance initiatives.

Co-Founder & Lead Blockchain Engineer

Wakala

Jul 2021 โ€” Jul 2022

Co-founded a self-custodial Ethereum wallet. Built smart contracts using Hardhat for DeFi integrations (Uniswap, SushiSwap, Aave) and ERC-20/ERC-721 token systems. Designed API surfaces and integration contracts, owned all product definition and prioritisation decisions, and coordinated smart contract security audits using Slither.

Lead Backend Engineer

mTek

Jan 2020 โ€” Jul 2021

Shipped production-grade distributed systems in Java and Kotlin (Vert.x, Quarkus). Designed REST APIs, database schemas, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Docker, AKS) at production scale.

Education

Technical University of Kenya

BSc ยท Computer Science