[ About — Dubai, UAE ]
About
the work.
I’m Kevin Coto, a full stack solutions architect based in Dubai. For the last five years I’ve designed and shipped cloud native products — from payment rails serving millions of transactions to an AI receptionist that answers restaurant calls at dinner rush.
5+
Years
12
Products
17
Essays
/How I work.
Three things I keep
coming back to.
01
Build the whole thing
Strategy, interface, API, infrastructure. Owning the full path means fewer handoffs and fewer places for intent to get lost.
02
Boring where it counts
Payments, auth and data should be predictable. Save the novelty for the interaction layer, where users actually feel it.
03
Make it observable
If it cannot be measured, traced and explained, it is not finished. Logs, metrics and docs are part of the product.
[ 04 — Journey ]
Where I’ve
done the work.
Enterprise UX across financial intelligence, news, healthcare, logistics and retail — from foundational platforms to AI native systems.
Enerex
Frontend Engineer
Energy Tech / USA
Started as an intern and grew into a full time Frontend Engineer. Optimized state management with Redux.js, built responsive dashboards for energy sector clients across the USA, and enhanced system stability.
Careem
Backend Engineer
Fintech / Middle East
Enhanced Careem's payment system serving millions across the Middle East. Optimized API integration, boosted transaction success rates, and cut payment processing time by 50% across the platform.
Prosperia
Full Stack Engineer
AI / Healthcare — Mexico & Americas
Enhanced Prosperia's AI driven healthcare solutions for Mexico and the Americas. Optimized GIS mapping with React and Express, reducing data processing time by 30%.
Exonic
Freelance & Consulting
Global — South Africa, Europe, Asia
Part time contractor delivering solutions across South Africa, Europe, and Asia. Built scalable cloud solutions with AWS (Lambda, Cognito, S3, Aurora, SES, API Gateway) and modern frontends using Svelte 5.
Present
Building decoupled AI systems
Various industries
Architecting decoupled systems across industries powered by RAG, MCP, AI agents, and vector databases. Bringing AI capabilities into real products that actually ship.
/Credentials.
Proof, not
posturing.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
Amazon Web Services
Full stack engineering — cloud, product, AI systems
Production work across the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Europe
Bilingual delivery — English & Spanish
Client facing discovery, documentation and support
/Off the clock.
Less terminal,
more camera.
When I’m not shipping, I’m usually out with a camera. The gallery is a small collection of what caught my eye.