Hello, I'm Edgar Chris Nahama Alochi
I am a software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience. I help teams solve hard technical problems and build reliable systems that are easy to understand and ready to grow.
I grew up in Kenya and now live in Münster. I have spent most of my career working on software where reliability, scale, and good technical judgment really matter.
Over the past 14 years, I have learned that strong engineering starts with understanding the problem. From there, it is about making sensible choices, keeping the design clear, and building something the team can support with confidence.
I founded Tinker to give founders the kind of technical partner I felt was often missing. We help teams make better technical decisions, reduce risk, and build products that can handle real growth.
I make sure we understand what is actually wrong before we talk about tools or architecture.
I prefer a system the team can explain and maintain over one that is clever but hard to change.
I design for the growth we can see coming without burdening the team with complexity it does not need.
The best decisions come from knowing the product, the people, and the business well enough to see the whole picture.
A few projects that show the problems I have worked on, the choices I made, and what changed after the work was done.
Built an open-source agent runtime that connects natural-language requests to application tools, with permissions, approval previews and durable recovery. TalonHR became its first production deployment.
Agent architecture and engineering · 2026
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Built with Go and Next.js, Tinker Payments unifies M-Pesa, Paystack, Stripe and many others behind one API, with staged routing, a double-entry ledger, reconciliation, durable webhook recovery and verified merchant onboarding.
Full-stack engineer · 2025–2026 · October 2025– Ongoing
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Led engineering for Talon, a Next.js, Go and Flutter hiring platform connecting employers, recruiters and applicants in one decision flow.
Lead engineer · 2026 · January–September · Next.js · Go · Flutter
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I founded Tinker over 10 years ago, and I still lead the company today. We work closely with founders who are building ambitious products and need experienced technical leadership.
Tinker is now a distributed team of experienced engineers and designers working across East Africa and the United States. We help clients make good technical choices and build dependable software that can grow with the business.
We do not measure good work by how much code we ship. We measure it by whether the product works well, the team can support it, and the business is in a stronger position afterward.
Notes from the work. I write about system design, engineering decisions, and lessons that are worth sharing.
Meet Yada, our open-source AI agent harness, now live inside TalonHR. It's a standalone TypeScript project for bringing...
Part 3 of the TalonHR AI harness series: what it takes to move an agent from working to production-ready, covering obser...
Part 2 of building an AI harness around TalonHR in Go: the execution loop, tool registry, state, approvals, partial fail...
Notes from building an AI harness around TalonHR in Go: tool discovery, the agent loop, auth, context, approvals and fai...
I work with founders and teams who need experienced technical help, not just more hands. That often means sorting out a difficult architecture decision, improving a system that is starting to strain, or finding a safer way to deliver an important product.
If that sounds like the kind of problem you are facing, send me a message. I am always happy to have a straightforward conversation about it.