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resumely

AI resume builder for Kenya

A resume that gets opened.
In 90 seconds. For KES 499.

M-Pesa pay-and-download. No signup wall. No monthly subscription. Built for the graduate who needs a resume opened, not a builder app.

Wanjiku M. Otieno

Backend Engineer · Nairobi, Kenya · wanjiku@example.co.ke

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

Safaricom · 2022 – Present

  • Led the M-Pesa Daraja v3 migration affecting 2.4M daily transactions; reduced p99 latency from 480ms to 110ms.
  • Designed the on-call rotation across a 6-person platform team; ran 18 post-mortems with mean time-to-resolution under 90 minutes.

Software Engineer · KCB · 2019 – 2022 ↓

KES 499 once. Or KES 1,499 a month for unlimited tailoring.

01

Paste anything.

Your old resume, a LinkedIn paste, or one sentence about your background. We don't need a perfect outline.

No signup required to try

02

We generate.

Resumely's AI structures the content in Kenyan English, quantifies what's quantifiable, and sets it like a magazine spread.

03

You download.

Pay KES 499 by M-Pesa. PDF lands in your email and on WhatsApp within 90 seconds.

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Tell us about yourself in one sentence.

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Junior Backend Engineer · Nairobi, Kenya

Summary

Recent JKUAT Computer Science graduate targeting junior backend roles in Kenyan banking. Coursework in distributed systems, hands-on with Node.js and PostgreSQL through final-year projects.

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For Kenyans, specifically

Three real before / afters.

The Graduate archetype

The Graduate

Fresh from JKUAT, applying to KCB

Before

GPA: 3.4 / 4.0. Treasurer of the IT Club. Did an internship.

After

Built a Django API for the IT Club's KES 180K events budget - tracked 12 events, 4 vendors. KCB Group Internship (May - Aug 2025): triaged 38 support tickets across three branches.

The Career Changer archetype

The Career Changer

Five years in hospitality, switching to corporate ops

Before

Strong customer-service skills. Hard worker. Team player.

After

Managed KES 2.4M monthly inventory across three hotel sites. Trained 14 new hires through 90-day onboarding. Reduced front-desk handover time from 22 minutes to 8.

The Global Mover archetype

The Global Mover

Senior dev applying to international remote roles

Before

Senior Software Engineer at a Nairobi bank.

After

Staff Software Engineer (Nairobi-based, fully remote-ready). Led the M-Pesa Daraja v3 migration affecting 2.4M daily transactions. GitHub: github.com/wmotieno.

What makes Resumely different

  1. 01

    We generate it with AI.

  2. 02

    We design it like a magazine.

  3. 03

    We charge once.

  4. 04

    We accept M-Pesa.

  5. 05

    We never invent your experience.

Pricing

KES 499 once. Or unlimited for the price of one good coffee a week.

Single Resume

Pay once. Download once.

KES 499 one-time
  • 1 resume
  • 5 AI tailoring credits
  • PDF download
  • WhatsApp delivery
Pay KES 499 with M-Pesa

Career Monthly

Unlimited tailoring while you job-hunt.

KES 1,499 per month
  • Unlimited resumes
  • 50 AI credits / month
  • ATS check + JD tailor
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe monthly

Career Yearly

Two months free.

KES 14,990 per year
  • Unlimited resumes
  • 600 AI credits / year
  • Priority generation queue
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe yearly

Lifetime

Pay once. Use forever.

KES 9,999 one-time
  • Unlimited resumes
  • 100 AI credits (one-time grant)
  • All future templates
  • Priority support
Buy lifetime access

Recruiter

For agencies and in-house TA.

KES 4,999 per month
  • 5 team seats
  • 200 AI credits / month
  • Branded candidate exports
  • ATS check at scale
Start with Recruiter

Card subscribers renew automatically. M-Pesa subscribers approve an STK prompt each cycle (Safaricom doesn't yet support auto-debit). Cancel anytime from the dashboard.

For Recruiters

Hiring at scale? Get the team plan.

Resumely for Recruiters lets your team upload candidate CVs in bulk, run ATS checks against your job descriptions, and export branded versions with your firm's logo. Five seats, 200 AI credits per month, KES 4,999.

See the recruiter dashboard →

Pipeline · Backend Engineer

14 candidates

Wanjiku Otieno92
Brian Kimani87
Esther Mwende81
Patrick Njoroge76
Sheila Achieng71

Built by Kenyans, for Kenyans

We've watched too many capable Kenyans get filtered out by ATS systems that don't know how to read their CVs.

The mainstream resume builders are templated, expensive in dollars, and ask for monthly subscriptions that don't make sense for someone applying to three roles a year. The alternative - paying a CV consultant KES 5,000 to retype your experience into Word - is worse.

Resumely is the third option: pay KES 499 in M-Pesa, get a typeset, ATS-friendly PDF in your email and on WhatsApp inside 90 seconds. No subscription, no signup wall, no foreign card required.

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Justine Gichana

Founder, Resumely · Nairobi, Kenya

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