Alpha Nganga
Co-founder & Senior Software Engineer & System Architect at Sasasasa
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolAlpha Nganga is a co-founder and senior software engineer with 8 years of experience building decision-support systems and scalable web applications from Nairobi. He blends hands-on full-stack expertise (TypeScript/React/Next, Node/Nest, Python/Django) with systems architecture, CI/CD, Docker and AWS to deliver business-focused solutions. Alpha has led engineering teams and startups—serving as CTO for an Antler-backed venture and senior roles at Lori, Andela and EOSNairobi—bringing product-minded technical leadership to early-stage and growth environments. He is skilled in CRM integrations, TDD and API design (REST/GraphQL), and regularly translates complex requirements into pragmatic, testable systems. A former teaching fellow, he pairs mentorship and clear communication with continuous learning, often prototyping UX-driven features himself. Outside core engineering, he runs an innovation lab (Sasasasa) that helps entrepreneurs scale affordably, signaling a practical focus on cost-effective impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
mobile-web7
backend7
react-router6
react6
htaccess6
http6
python6
django6
redux6
javascript6
angular5
frontend5
nodejs5
bootstrap4
jquery4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bl4ck4ndbr0wn/iReporter
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
iReporter enables any/every citizen to bring any form of corruption to the notice of appropriate authorities and the general public. Users can also report on things that needs government intervention.
Contributions:142 PRs, 173 pushes, 64 branches in 3 months
authoritiescorruptionireporterreportintervention
andela/ah-centauri-frontend
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 78 pushes in 24 days
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