Alex Kariuki
Software Engineer at Ela Africa
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kariuki is a Nairobi-based software engineer and technology leader with nine years of experience building full-stack, DevOps and data-driven systems across fintech, energy, and edtech. As CTO and co-owner of Radius Labs and a technical lead at multiple startups, he blends product sensibility with hands-on delivery—designing CI/CD, large-scale data pipelines and predictive maintenance models that cut release cycles from weekly to daily and improved sensor monitoring from 24-hour to 5-minute intervals. He currently shapes learning products at Ela Africa and enterprise payments at Pesalink while contributing to decentralized finance and renewable-energy lending projects. Trained in data science (MSc) and certified in IS auditing, Alex pairs rigorous data skills with practical security and operational discipline. He’s also an active open-source practitioner who experiments with MEAN-stack and DevOps patterns to prototype real-world, socially impactful solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)Master of Science Data Science, Master of Science Data Science at University of East LondonCertified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor at Computer Pride
Github Skills (25)
xamarin-forms3
charts3
android3
angular3
weather-api3
ios3
open-weather-api3
ionic2
xamarin2
windows2
uwp2
cordova2
scanner2
react2
qr-code2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alex1kariuki/navigo
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
Implementation of the designs from https://www.xdguru.com/navigo-free-ui-kit/
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
reactnavigodesignsui-kit
alex1kariuki/chatapp
Jun 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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