Alex Gathua
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolAlex Gathua is a biomedical engineer and software developer with six years of hands-on experience building embedded medical devices, AI-backed imaging tools, and automation software that bridge healthcare and cloud services. He led development of a portable Negative Pressure Wound Therapy device—owning embedded systems, sensors, and project delivery—and has shipped IoT-enabled clinical hardware such as an insulin storage system controlled via ESP32 and a companion mobile app. On the software side he’s built backend services and ML-powered image-processing pipelines for agricultural and content automation projects, including an OpenAI+Selenium real-estate blog publisher. Comfortable moving between firmware, cloud APIs, and data-driven models, he combines clinical device validation experience (hospital installs and conference showcases) with production-grade software engineering. Based in Nairobi, he volunteers with IEEE and seeks roles or research opportunities that advance practical, low-cost medtech for resource-constrained settings. An enthusiastic coder who blends patient-centered design with automation and ML, he often takes projects from concept sketches and 3D designs through to deployed prototypes.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Kenya certificate of secondary education, Kenya certificate of secondary education at Njumbi Boys' High SchoolBachelor of Science (Biomedical engineering), ENGINEERING, Second class hons(upper division), Bachelor of Science (Biomedical engineering), ENGINEERING, Second class hons(upper division) at Kenyatta University
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (24)
pythonanywhere9
brave-browser9
webdrivermanager8
django-channels8
binance8
trading-bot7
real-time-data7
flask6
python6
django6
cloudinary5
static-files5
selenium5
whatsapp4
iot3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gathuaalex/Portfolio
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
justabeginner-team/EquityApi
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 review, 53 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
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