Benson Wamae
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolBenson Wamae is a technical product manager and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend, mobile and USSD solutions for banking and fintech. He blends hands-on engineering—shipping Android, Ruby on Rails and React Native systems—with product leadership, co-creating vision and delivering customer value at Kopo Kopo while consulting and founding product experiments at Quant254. His work includes payment integrations (e.g., Equity Bank–PayPal), microservices and release pipelines, plus practical ML curiosity signaled by a Master's in AI from the University of Essex. Comfortable across the stack, Benson has repeatedly improved operational quality through monitoring, automation and targeted bug triage, and he’s built niche products like NSE-GPT and crypto and bonds portfolio managers that reveal an entrepreneurial drive to turn domain problems into tools.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at University of EssexBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Eastern Africa Baraton
English, French, Swahili
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Github Skills (85)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Wamae/courier
Aug 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
Wamae/krypto
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:9 reviews, 10 PRs, 31 pushes in 7 months
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