Edgar Agayi

Nairobi, Kenya

Edgar Agayi

Hello there,

I am Edgar Agayi

A person who loves computers, especially software. I also do law and government, and I enjoy it. And most of all, I write whenever inspiration strikes.

Nairobi, Kenya Cloud engineer & Bachelor of Laws Eleven books

I am a person who loves computers — especially software. I also do law and government, and I enjoy it. I am a music enthusiast who loves pop and hip-hop, EDM and R&B, with artists like Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, The Neighbourhood and Twenty One Pilots. And most of all, I write whenever inspiration strikes.

Let me tell you about me.

History, and how it made me a lawyer

I am a Kenyan by birth, and I have always been interested in history. At a young age I had already read about the very major significant events. The conquests of Alexander the Great. How Julius and Augustus Caesar rose to power. Cyrus the Great. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. James I, the first king of both England and Scotland. The Tudor line, culminating in the rule of Elizabeth. Napoleon. And all the world wars.

Believe me, this list is very, very long. But aaah.

That is what led me to a career as a lawyer, and I pursued a Bachelor of Laws. Government is the part I enjoy most, which surprises people. And it turns out that having one foot in law and one in technology is useful, because Kenya is writing technology law faster than most people are reading it — so I write about that sometimes, in plain words, for people who have to live under it.

Computers, and the concept of the cloud

I have always been fascinated by technology. I mean, I became so curious about it when I was eight that it turned into a literal obsession. I fell in love with software, and with the very concept of the cloud — the idea that a machine can exist because you asked for it, and stop existing when you are done with it.

I am a cloud engineer with expertise in AWS and DevOps, a software engineer, and I also do MediaWiki development — the software behind Wikipedia, which is one of the few large things still genuinely built out in the open. My main stack is Python, Golang, PHP, Node.js, JavaScript, AWS, Linux and Bash.

I love the command line, and I hope every day it loves me too.

Music

I listen to music deeply. I am a fan of the classicals — I like the songs of Hans Zimmer, the famous composer, and Ludovico Einaudi. Those two are what I write to; no words allowed when you are trying to find your own.

And I listen to a lot besides. Pop, EDM, hip-hop and band music, as I said — Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, The Neighbourhood, Twenty One Pilots. I am not restricted to these genres. I can listen to more.

I have also put out three songs of my own, which is a strange thing to say about yourself, but there they are.

Writing

I am a fan of fiction and creativity. I don't really believe in love, though I write more about it. That's a contradiction, yes — but to me I think that means something. Maybe someday I will believe.

I write poetry and prose, at times. I have written eleven books now, and they are almost all about the same thing from different angles: loving someone more than they love you, and what you do afterwards.

Here they are, newest first.

  1. Amor Fati: Love Your Fatepoetry, 150 reflections

    Love beyond just romance — parents and their quiet sacrifices, friends who disappear without a goodbye, ambition, disappointment, being lonely in a room full of people.

  2. Alchemy of Chaosshort story

    Neil is calm, Ann is restless. They meet without meaning to and get close without ever naming it. About finding out that caring for someone doesn't mean you get chosen.

  3. Pain That Healedpoetry & prose, four chapters

    “Sometimes healing doesn't look like light. It looks like surviving the night and still choosing to wake up.” Heartbreak, anxiety, depression, and realising that healing isn't forgetting — it's remembering differently.

  4. Love Was Just a Word I Believed Inpoems & short stories

    The small things that stay after people leave. A coffee cup on a shelf, a jacket by the door, a playlist you can't press play on any more.

  5. Did I Deserve This?poetry & prose, five chapters

    Four chapters from his side and one from hers, where she explains herself. “This is not perfect poetry. These are thoughts from a heart that was hurt but kept beating.”

  6. I Deserved a Better Goodbyepoetry, five chapters

    “You didn't say goodbye — but I did. And that's what set me free.” Falling too hard, staying too long, and finally choosing yourself. Not a revenge story; a coming-back one.

  7. The Words We Never Learned to Sayshort story

    Some love stories don't end in fire, they end in silence. Two people who were never quite together and never quite apart, saying everything with looks because pride got to the sentence first.

  8. Clockmaker's Daughtershort story

    A watchmaker finds a message hidden inside an old pocket watch, and follows it to a love story her grandmother lost during the war.

  9. Crimson Reveries: The Art of Letting Goshort story, 48 pages

    Eli has waited years for a woman whose heart was somewhere else. When Lena's life falls apart he has to accept that you can't hold love by waiting for it, and some ghosts aren't meant to be chased.

  10. Ballads of the Hummingbirdpoetry chapbook, 12 poems

    Twelve poems about love and loving someone who doesn't love you back, plus one about anxiety. Carried like something small and stubborn that refuses to stop flying.

  11. 210 Days: A Tapestry of Timeshort story — the first one

    Scott is anxious and clever and doesn't fit anywhere; Anastasia sees him anyway. First love, first loss, and 210 days that turn out not to be enough.

They are on Apple Books, Goodreads, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and Everand.

Well, that's some things about me. I don't know much about myself, or maybe I am not that interesting, but that's all I could say. Thank you so much for reading about me.

Cheers.