I build websites, web applications, and digital systems for people with serious ideas.

I'm Ernest Serunkuma — a self-taught software engineer, creative technologist, and founder based in Kampala, Uganda. I've shipped production systems for Fortune 500 companies, led teams, and built a digital agency from nothing. I help founders, businesses, and teams turn ideas into digital products that are clear, useful, and built to move.

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Trusted by

Wells Fargo Deloitte Charter Communications (Spectrum) CauseLabs edX Kumachi Studio

Capabilities

Built through real projects, real teams, and real business pressure.

Software Engineering

Frontend development, Angular, React, React Native, WordPress, JavaScript, TypeScript, APIs, dashboards, product interfaces.

Creative Direction

Brand systems, portfolio storytelling, publishing, visual identity, content strategy, book and logo design.

Business Systems

Automation, analytics, CRM workflows, internal tools, founder operations, digital systems architecture.

Teaching & Leadership

Classes, mentoring, team workflows, documentation, technical communication, edX instructor.

Portfolio

Selected Work

A range of projects across product, engineering, design, and systems.

CreekFleet fleet operations dashboard interface

Fleet Management MVP · Product Design + Engineering

CreekFleet — Fleet Operations Command Center

Designed and built a full MVP for a fleet management web application targeting small fleet operators. Includes a conversion-focused landing page, authentication flow, workspace creation, and an operations dashboard with fleet health metrics, vehicle status, maintenance reminders, alert tracking, and map-based activity visibility. Built for both sales demos and real user onboarding.

MVP-ready. Positioned as a lightweight fleet command center without enterprise complexity.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSSupabaseVercelFull Stack

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Angak Gene Browser biomedical data interface

Biomedical Data Platform · Frontend Engineering

Angak Gene Browser — Making Complex Research Data Usable

Frontend engineering for a biomedical data exploration platform that gives researchers the ability to search genes, filter studies, explore disease areas, select experiments, manage datasets, inspect metadata, and download analysis-ready results. Built on an old-school stack (jQuery, Panini templates, CSS) but engineered with modern thinking: reusable patterns, stateful interactions, progressive filtering, and dashboard summaries. This was about making a data-heavy Python backend actually usable by scientists.

A practical, research-focused interface that brought structure and clarity to complex genomic data.

JavaScriptjQueryHTML/CSSPython BackendData UIFrontend Engineering

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Book cover design with dark forest aesthetic

Publishing & Creative Direction

Book Cover — Publishing-Ready Design for a Solo Author

Full wraparound book cover design for an independent author. Delivered front cover, spine, back cover, typography hierarchy, ISBN/barcode placement, review quote positioning, publisher marks, and print-ready layout. The visual direction used a dark forest aesthetic, bold title hierarchy, and commercial fiction styling to make the book feel credible, polished, and ready for sale and self-publishing.

Author ready to publish. Professional presentation that competes with traditional publishing.

Print DesignTypographyPublishingVisual IdentityBrand

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Brand Identity · Logo Design

My Weird Yard — Brand Identity for a Honey & Garden Brand

Logo design for a quirky, nature-inspired brand with a honey, garden, and backyard personality. The mark combines a honey jar, bees, honeycomb shapes, dripping honey, and bold hand-drawn typography into a memorable visual identity. Delivered in full-color, black-on-white, and white-on-black variations — ready for digital, print, packaging, merchandise, labels, social media, and brand collateral.

A complete, flexible visual identity system ready for any surface.

Logo DesignBrand IdentityIllustrationVisual Design

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Services

Ways I Can Help

Website & WordPress Consulting

Personal sites, business websites, portfolios, landing pages, SEO-ready structure, and WordPress rebuilds.

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MVP & Web Application Strategy

App ideas needing screens, scope, user flows, architecture, or a build roadmap.

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Frontend Development & Product Interfaces

Turning designs, APIs, and product requirements into clean, usable interfaces.

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Automation & Digital Systems

Reducing manual work through forms, dashboards, APIs, CRM workflows, scripts, and AI-assisted processes.

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Creative / Publishing / Portfolio Support

Helping writers, artists, creators, and consultants package their work professionally.

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Background

The Story

Started in Kampala with no degree, no connections, and no roadmap.

Learned to code. Built things. Got better. Kept going.

Over ten years I moved from building websites at a Kampala agency to shipping production systems at Wells Fargo and a Department of Defense project at Deloitte — not because any door was opened for me, but because the work earned the right.

I founded Kumachi Studio to build a different kind of agency: one that combines engineering depth, creative direction, and business thinking. Right now I'm back in Kampala, leading a small team, working on client projects, and building toward the next chapter.

This is a story of resilience, craft, and what is possible when you refuse to stop.

2015

First professional role. Hostalite Ltd, Kampala.

2015–2018

Freelance on Upwork. International clients. Self-taught growth.

2018

Native Rank. 50+ WordPress sites. Denver, Colorado.

2019

Sales Star Networks. 200+ attribution websites.

2020

CauseLabs. Award-winning SmartPath Learning app.

2020