Software Engineer
My work spans backend systems, software integration, and data infrastructure. Recently, that has included laboratory systems in Zanzibar.
A national laboratory information system for Zanzibar.
I work with Ubunifu Solutions to maintain and extend the system for Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health.
I built software to exchange test requests and results, import instrument results, and prepare laboratory data for reporting. I also support deployment and user training.
I began learning to code while studying Mechanical Engineering. In November 2022, I joined ALX’s year-long software engineering program.
Today, I build backend systems and connect software across real-world workflows. I care about the details that make a system useful: how it fits the people using it, how reliably it works, and how it can keep improving.
Paul John is a software engineer. He began learning to code while studying mechanical engineering, then joined ALX’s year-long software engineering program in November 2022.
Today, he works with Ubunifu Solutions on ZanLIS, Zanzibar’s laboratory information system. His contributions connect laboratory and clinical software, bring instrument results into the system, and make laboratory data available for reporting. The work also takes him beyond the code, into conversations with health teams, deployment support, and user training.
Much of his work happens between systems: a test request from a clinic, a result from an instrument, or records that need to become a useful report. He cares about making those connections reliable, and understanding how they fit the people using them.
That practical curiosity carries into his own projects. LinkHub began with a familiar frustration: saving useful links, then struggling to find them again. He’s developing it into a way to organize and share resource guides.
Across his work, Paul keeps coming back to the same question: how can this software be more useful to the people who depend on it?
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