Benjamin Mwalimu
Head Of Technology at Incubate Africa
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolBenjamin Mwalimu is a technology leader with 12 years of hands-on engineering and program management experience, currently heading technology at Jacaranda Health and co-founding Incubate Africa. He specializes in healthcare interoperability and scalable cloud-native systems, having led FHIR-native architectures, OpenSRP 2.0 transformations, and multi-country deployments across low-resource settings. Comfortable alternating between writing production code and steering cross-functional programs, he combines expertise in microservices, DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes), and AI-powered health solutions like speech-to-text for frontline workers. Benjamin is an active open-source contributor and community mentor who translates complex clinical guidelines (WHO SMART) into practical, standards-driven implementations. He is based in Nairobi and known for pairing technical depth with stakeholder-oriented delivery to accelerate digital health impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) computer science, software and mobile development, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) computer science, software and mobile development at Kenyatta University
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (103)
interoperability10
web-application10
sqlite-database10
kotlin-library10
hl710
wizard10
jetpack10
scale10
sdk10
hl7-fhir10
form-wizard10
kotlin-android10
opc10
sqlite10
mobile-first10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opensrp/hapi-fhir-opensrp-extensions
Aug 2021 - Nov 2023
This repository holds all the code extensions OpenSRP will build on top of the HAPI FHIR server.
Contributions:35 reviews, 28 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 3 months
hapihapi-fhirfhirfhir-serverextensions
opensrp/opensrp-client-native-form
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
OpenSRP Client Native Form Wizard Library
Contributions:54 reviews, 823 commits, 181 PRs in 4 years 2 months
opensrpwizardform-wizard
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