Andrew Onyango
Senior Software Engineer at Kamoa App
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Onyango is a versatile Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with 10 years of experience building full-stack, payments, and fintech systems across Africa. He has delivered production mobile and web products using React Native, Next.js, Java Spring Boot, and TypeScript, and implemented scalable serverless backends on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Athena, Cognito). His work spans real-time payments integrations (Central Bank APIs, Mpesa, Interswitch), analytics and observability (PostHog, Sentry), and developer tooling like CI/CD pipelines for checkout platforms. Andrew combines product-focused engineering with strong operational discipline—optimizing large data exports and streamlining merchant integrations—while studying data science at Strathmore to deepen his analytics and ML fluency. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s comfortable moving between frontend UX polish and backend reliability in high-throughput financial systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics Data Science and Analytics, Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics Data Science and Analytics at Strathmore UniversityBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Mount Kenya University - MKU
Github Skills (4)
react4
javascript4
php1
laravel1
Github contributions (5)
andela-aonyango/potato-orm
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
andela-aonyango/api-demo
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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