Alexander Shikanga-tindi
Senior Engineer Technical Leadership at IMG ARENA
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlexander Shikanga-tindi is a Senior Engineer and technical leader based in London with 13 years of experience building and scaling production software across fintech, sports technology, and SaaS. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to lead and technical leadership positions at companies like Yapily and IMG ARENA, helping deliver API-driven platforms and open finance solutions. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he focuses on reliable, scalable systems and mentoring teams through growth and complex integrations. Alexander combines entrepreneurial experience as a former CTO with a disciplined mindset—reflected in his GitHub motto about self-mastery—that drives pragmatic technical decisions. Though primarily active in commercial engineering, his career shows a consistent thread of moving legacy systems toward modern, API-first architectures.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (63)
kubernetes10
reactive10
java10
quarkus10
cloud-native10
docker-image8
variants8
unleash7
microservices6
test-container6
spring-data-r2dbc6
sdk6
proxies6
feature-flags6
docker6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sirAlexander/linkedin-learning
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Enhance Your Skills With Expert-Led Online Video Tutorials
Contributions:20 PRs, 56 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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sirAlexander/git-for-the-scared
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 9 months
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