Audio transcript
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?
