Iranzi Thierry

Full-stack software engineer · Kigali, Rwanda (UTC+2)

Full-stack software engineer who ships products end to end: polished React and React Native interfaces backed by TypeScript, Go and Python services. Product lead and lead engineer for cowtic, a leading Swiss event-ticketing platform, at Siebenberge; previously part-time at Polar, the open-source billing platform for developers. Founded Cognova AI at 18 (acquired) and building Instant Cloud, a hosting platform for African developers. Studying Software Engineering at African Leadership University.

Experience

Software Engineer — Siebenberge GmbH

Switzerland · Remote

  • Product and engineering lead for cowtic, a leading Swiss event-ticketing platform: built it from the first commit.
  • Shipped cowtic’s REST API and TypeScript SDK, Apple and Google Wallet passes, offline-capable check-in, and event cancellation with automated refunds.
  • Led security and reliability work across the platform; merged 74+ pull requests.

Customer Support & Internal Tools Engineer — Polar

San Francisco, CA · Remote

  • Joined Polar, the open-source billing platform for developers; worked across developer support and internal tooling.
  • Built back-office tools that let Polar’s team manage organizations and streamline account operations (merged into polarsource/polar).
  • Supported developers integrating Polar’s checkout, subscriptions and payments, and shipped fixes across the product.

Senior Full-Stack Developer — Blockchain Tech Solutions

London, UK · Remote

  • Developed interactive crypto games and mining platforms with NFT integration and wallet transactions.
  • Built real-time analytics dashboards for applications processing around 100,000 user events per minute.
  • Optimized rendering performance to keep live event streams smooth and responsive in the browser.

Frontend Developer — Uruti Hub

Kigali, Rwanda · On-site

  • Built reusable components and improved page load times across client web apps.
  • Fixed issues in the Express, Sequelize and PostgreSQL API.

Full-Stack Developer — Freelance

Remote

  • Delivered full-stack web applications for independent clients, from scoping to deployment.

Projects

Instant Cloud · instant.rw

Founder & engineer · Go, Docker Swarm, Caddy, Next.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, BullMQ

  • Prepaid cloud hosting for African developers: connect a GitHub repo for zero-config builds and deploys, managed databases and custom domains with automatic HTTPS, billed in local currency.

OpenTunnel · opts.ink

Creator · Go, WebSockets, Protobuf, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, TanStack Start, Docker

  • Persistent public URLs for localhost: a single-binary Go CLI, protobuf frames over authenticated WebSockets, and request capture with one-click replay.

Cognova AI · cognova.io

Founder & engineer · Next.js, Python, LLMs, PostgreSQL

  • Multi-tenant AI sales and support assistant: businesses load their catalog, hours and policies, and an agent answers customers in a web widget and on WhatsApp.

Open source

  • polarsource/polar (contributor): The open-source billing platform for developers. I contributed back-office tools for managing organizations, plus fixes for GitHub issues.
  • instant-rw/instantpack (maintainer): Instant Cloud’s zero-config builder: a Railpack fork with our own builder images that turns any repository into a container image.
  • optunnel/opentunnel (creator): Self-hostable HTTP tunnel in Go: persistent public URLs for localhost, with request capture and replay.

Skills

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, SQL, Rust
Frontend
React, Next.js, React Native (Expo), Tailwind CSS, TanStack Query
Backend
REST & OpenAPI, WebSockets, Node.js, Nest.JS, Express, Hono, FastAPI, tRPC
Data
PostgreSQL, Prisma, Redis, BullMQ, MySQL, ClickHouse
Infra
Docker & Swarm, Instant Cloud, Caddy, Cloudflare, Linux, GitHub Actions, Vercel
Spoken
English (professional), Kinyarwanda (native)

Education

BSc in Software Engineering — African Leadership University

Kigali, Rwanda

Advanced Level Certificate, Software Development — College George Fox

Rwanda