Austine Gwa
Software Developer at Piki Pata
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolAustine Gwa is a full-stack software developer based in Nairobi with eight years of experience building production systems using Spring Boot, React and React Native. He has led development of revenue-critical platforms—loan management and FMCG sales systems—that automate payments, reconciliation and notifications, driving meaningful business outcomes like streamlined disbursements and lean field operations. As a co-founder of a digital solutions startup he combines client-facing product work with hands-on engineering and team management, helping SMEs adopt practical tooling. He is particularly strong in integrations with mobile money and bank IPNs, and has repeatedly migrated legacy PHP services to unified Java backends for maintainability. An economics and AI enthusiast, Austine brings a data-minded approach to feature design and analytics-driven product decisions. He prefers pragmatic, developer-friendly stacks (IntelliJ, VSCode, DataGrip) and focuses on delivering measurable operational impact rather than bells-and-whistles.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Software development, Information Technology, Software development at masinde muliro university
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Github Skills (50)
ios10
react-native10
cross-platform10
android10
react10
mobile-development9
classification9
mobile9
regression9
mpesa9
clustering9
nlp8
multiclass-classification8
payment-gateway8
app-framework8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HealthITMMUST/pregnancyaggregate
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Project for mapping data for pregnant women within an Org unit
Contributions:51 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
org-modewomenunitdata-mappingemacs
AustineGwa/corvid19-app-android-cor
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 2 pushes in 2 days
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