Brian Kisese
Engineering Lead Fractional CTO (Angel Investor) at Kiotapay Inc
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolBrian Kisese is an engineering leader and fractional CTO with 11+ years building and scaling high-performance fintech and transaction-heavy platforms across Africa. He architects cloud-native, microservices-driven systems (AWS, Kubernetes) and builds resilient payment, wallet, and reconciliation backends that handle high throughput and low-bandwidth channels (USSD, SMS, feature phones). Equally comfortable leading teams and shipping code, he has driven reliability, CI/CD, and monitoring practices at companies from Safaricom to fast-growing startups like Kiotapay and Senti, where he scaled lending to 500k+ users. His hands-on background spans Java, Go, Node/TypeScript, Python and event-driven patterns with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka and RabbitMQ, and he’s now exploring practical LLM/Generative AI deployments. Based in Nairobi, he combines investor-level strategic thinking with day-to-day engineering rigor, often translating complex regulatory and integration requirements into secure, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Computer Science, Computer Science at Masinde Muliro University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at University of East London
Spanish, English, Swahili
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Github Skills (44)
checkout10
mpesa10
mvc-framework9
ergonomics9
kotlin9
typescript9
glyph-icons9
nodejs9
callback9
stability9
js-framework8
commerce8
android8
java8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kisese/adonisjs-electron
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
kisese/Android-Arduino-Bluetooth-Color-remote
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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