Brian Ogolla
Software Engineer at IBM
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ogolla is a software engineer and technical lead with a decade of experience building web APIs, serverless products, and event-driven distributed systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has led distributed engineering teams and architected production services using Python, AWS serverless patterns, and containerized/cloud DevOps practices. His career spans roles at Savannah Informatics, Andela, Emptor (where he progressed from senior engineer to technical lead), and currently IBM, demonstrating strong delivery focus and operational ownership. Brian blends backend expertise (Django/DRF, Celery, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL) with practical DevOps skills (GCP, AWS, CI/CD, monitoring) and hands-on experience in web scraping and applied computer vision teaching at Carnegie Mellon. Based in Nairobi, he pairs a Carnegie Mellon MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a grounded track record of shipping resilient services for distributed teams. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he bridges academic rigor and production engineering, moving models and research-class techniques into reliable, serverless products.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Maranda High SchoolBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of NairobiMaster of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Swahili
Github Skills (10)
flask-api7
browsable7
marshmallow6
flask5
api5
python4
storage1
dicom1
retrieval1
manipulation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bogolla/fhir-on-alchemy
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
bogolla/clinical-terminologies
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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