Balikuddembe Mawanda
Head Of Engineering Enablement & Developer Experience at GDExperts
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Summary
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Top SchoolBalikuddembe Mawanda is a Head of Engineering Enablement & Developer Experience with over eight years of full-stack software and platform engineering experience, combining hands-on Node.js, Go, Python and React development with operational rigor. He specializes in turning architecture and research outcomes into production-ready, auditable systems—standardizing SDLCs, CI/CD, observability, and release governance across enterprise and regulated environments. As a former Senior Software Engineer and current leader at GDExperts, he has delivered 20+ enterprise applications and driven ISO 27001 efforts, improving delivery reliability through automation and engineering metrics. He also founded Firefly Innovation Foundation and co-founded JavaScript Community Uganda to mentor and upskill developers, demonstrating a sustained commitment to talent development and digital inclusion. Comfortable bridging strategy and execution, he blends technical depth in backend performance with a developer-centric focus on productivity and platform consistency. Based in Kampala, he stays active in the tech community as a contributor and community lead, bringing both local impact and global engineering practices to his work.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Business Applications Artificial Intelligence, Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Business Applications Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Makerere University
Github Skills (9)
issue-tracking8
dart6
water6
flutter6
react4
typescript3
audio3
nodejs3
javascript2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
baliksjosay/shopping_list
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
baliksjosay/hitek_water
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
WEbsite for hitech water
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
water
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