David Amunga
Software Maker·Frontend / Mobile·Nairobi, Kenya
- Senior Frontend Engineer at Piedmont Global
- 8+ years building mobile & web applications
Bucket List
Cool things I want to do in life.
16 done16 remaining
50% complete
Make a simple Multiplayer Game for the Web
Compose a single music track
Release a short movie with friends
Build and Deploy a fully offline Desktop App
Learn and be good at Portrait photography
See the Northern Lights
Make an entire Sandwich from Scratch
Yes. literally. Growing my own vegetables , milking a cow to make cheese , grinding own flour from wheat , collect my own honey and of course getting my own chicken.
Earn enough to cover living burn rate from side-projects
Build a Product that reaches $100 MRR
Write at least 2 articles in a week for 3 months
Write 50 > Articles in a year
Live for 2 weeks in Europe
Live in New York for 1 week
Attend 1 Wrestlemania event
Design a Font Typeface
Hike Mt Kilimanjaro
16 completed
Hard Boil an Egg in a Microwave
never…again….
Sell a Digital Product
Selling a neat screensaver screensaver.so
Build a Product to 100 active users a month
Travel to a foreign country
I travelled with dear friends in Nov 2022 and June 2023 to Uganda 🇺🇬 , Rwanda 🇷🇼 , Tanzania 🇹🇿 for a week by road. I made the best memories in my life so far.
Build and deploy an iOS/MacOS app to the AppStore
Hike Elephant Hill (Kenya)
Toughest hike i've done !
Buy a DSLR Camera
Buy a Macbook Pro
Got the 2017 16GB One
Build an Voice App using Alexa/Google Assistant
Did a simple one for a past Hackathon called SemaPesa where you could send Mobile Money using your Voice through an Alexa Echo Device. Discontinued though.
Make Homemade Yoghurt
Made this in Dec 2021. And its the best thing ever. Ironically cheaper than if you bought it. Recipe is here
Approach a well known person to offer my service
Give a tech talk
Rendercon KE 2024
Lose at least 10 kgs in a year
Major win 🙌 Dropped from 100.3 kgs from Sep 2022 to 74kg ! by Oct 2023. A whooping 25kg ! Keeping on the fitness journey well !
Make a set of Open source HTML Email Templates
Build 5 projects that make living in Kenya a little easier
Local problems. Preferrably annoying. Occurs ~3 times a day. Can be made ~10s faster.
calckenya.com
mpesa2csv.com
sgrcheck.com
maneno.ke
pesaqr.com
Launch my Personal Site
Finally did in Jan 2021