Billy Owire
Sr. Software Engineer at Kifiya Financial Technology PLC
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Owire is a customer-obsessed Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience designing and delivering scalable backend and cloud-native systems across fintech and telecom. He combines strong system-design and DevOps skills—Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Apigee, AWS, ELK—with hands-on proficiency in Java, Node.js, Python, .NET and message systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ. He has driven architecture and code-refactor initiatives at Safaricom and Microsoft and now architects backend solutions and explores AI-driven optimizations at Kifiya Financial Technology. Comfortable from infrastructure-as-code to frontend frameworks, he brings a pragmatic full-stack outlook and a track record of improving system performance and maintainability. A Strathmore master’s candidate in AI/Business Intelligence, he blends applied machine learning curiosity with production-grade engineering. Based in Nairobi, he pairs technical breadth with clear communication and a bias for measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Karatina UniversityMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence/Business Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence/Business Intelligence at Strathmore University
English
Github Skills (14)
golang10
docker10
buildkit10
go10
oci-image10
concurrent10
cloud-native10
dockerfile10
runner9
windows-containers9
documentation8
windows7
github-actions-runner6
cicd6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
billyoo/python-work
Jul 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
billyoo/accounting-system
Mar 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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