Alex Kiburu
Senior Software Engineer at Ezra
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolAlex Kiburu is a results-driven Technical Team Lead based in Nairobi with nine years of experience designing and delivering secure, scalable microservices and payment integrations for financial institutions. He leads cross-functional teams to refactor legacy systems into event-driven, containerized architectures using Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker and RabbitMQ, and has hands-on experience integrating core banking systems (T24), ISO/SOAP bridges and major remittance and MNO providers. Known for boosting ESB throughput and transaction efficiency, he combines deep backend engineering with practical DevOps and observability work (Prometheus, Grafana) to keep high-volume platforms reliable. Alex began his career building POS and desktop integrations and retains a pragmatic focus on stable deployments and automated CI workflows. He pairs technical mentorship with an ability to translate complex banking requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampCisco Certified Network Administrator Information Technology, Cisco Certified Network Administrator Information Technology at TechnoBrain InstituteBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Kenyatta University
English, Kiswahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
pyqt6
django5
stackoverflow2
flask2
react2
cefpython2
stackexchange2
webapp1
postgresql1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kiburualex/StackOverFlowLiteApi
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
This is a StockOverFlow Lite api mock made during andela bootcamp for https://kiburualex.github.io/StackOverflow-Lite/UI/ hosted on https://kiburu-stacklyte-api-heroku.herokuapp.com/. It is implemented using Flask, FlastRestplus and Postgres
Contributions:22 PRs, 22 pushes, 13 branches in 10 days
flaskpostgresql
kiburualex/StackOverflow-Lite
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Awesome web app with stack overflow like functionality
Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 days
reactstackoverflowstack-overflowstackexchangereactjs
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