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 (74)
cloud-native10
reactive10
kubernetes10
java10
quarkus10
variants9
docker-image9
sdk8
unleash8
launchdarkly8
security7
microservices7
simplify7
proxies7
vmware7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sirAlexander/shikanga-microprofile-auth-keycloak
Dec 2019 - Aug 2021
An Eclipse MicroProfile based authentication implementation based on jwt, keycloak, PostgresSQL and React
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
spring-bootreactpostgressqlauthenticationkeycloak
sirAlexander/shikanga-cloudnative-kubernetes
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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