Brian Makhembu

Daraja Digital

• Engineered and deployed an automated translator management platform utilizing Next.js, slashing project booking latency from 120 minutes to 15 minutes (87% reduction).
• Negotiated and managed sensitive translation mandates for premier London-based legal counsel and NHS-aligned healthcare networks, ensuring a 100% on-time delivery rate across 50+ high-complexity documents.
• Spearheaded internationalization (i18n) workflows for East African market entries, facilitating localized software deployment for 5+ SaaS platforms with a reach of 500k+ users.
• Catalyzed a 40% growth in capacity by vetting and directing an elite network of 20+ specialized Swahili translation and review specialists.

Jambo Linguists

• Modernized enterprise-wide translation memory (TM) repositories, yielding a 35% reduction in project costs through improved fuzzy-match leverage and linguistic recycling.
• Cultivated and retained 15+ major corporate accounts, consistently achieving 98%+ Linguistic Quality Evaluation (LQE) marks across all Swahili deliverables.
• Pioneered terminology validation and QA automation scripts, expediting localization turnaround time (TAT) by 20% while eliminating manual verification errors.

Global Enterprise Support

• Administered a global 500+ device ecosystem, sustaining 99.8% uptime and securing full ISO 27001 data integrity compliance across 15+ geographic sites.
• Orchestrated a major Active Directory consolidation, reducing employee onboarding cycles by 85% through custom PowerShell-driven automation.
• Constructed digitized asset-tracking systems that realized $15k+ in annual savings via enhanced license auditing and hardware loss prevention.