Benjamin Gakami
Lead Software Engineer & Product Engineer at Blue Book Publications, Inc.
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolBenjamin Gakami is a Lead Software Engineer and Product Builder with a decade of experience designing and scaling SaaS platforms, real-time systems, and cross-platform mobile apps. He combines hands-on development (Laravel, Vue.js, Livewire, Flutter) with DevOps and AWS infrastructure management to ship reliable products and CI/CD-driven delivery. At Blue Book Publications he led a 4-person team to rebuild core apps and drive a 1,100% jump in recurring subscriptions, and previously mentored 10 engineers as an Engineering Lead at SYNTAX. Benjamin repeatedly turns client requirements into measurable business outcomes—building logistics real-time tracking, multi-tenant POS with M-Pesa, and AI-driven bank-statement parsing—showing a knack for solving domain-specific problems. Based in Nairobi, he balances product instincts with technical depth and a habit of experimenting independently, coding his way through life’s challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (DeKUT)
English, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (152)
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lumen9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jafar690/calculating-flesch-kincaid-reading-ease-in-php
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
syntaxltd/flutter-clean-architecture-template
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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