Brian Sigilai
Backend Engineer at Safaricom PLC
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Sigilai is a backend engineer based in Nairobi with eight years of experience building practical web solutions that address real-world needs. He blends full-stack fluency with a backend focus, shipping Laravel/PHP systems and integrating APIs—most recently contributing backend services at Safaricom after designing onboarding and plagiarism-check workflows for Writers Thrive. Brian has hands-on GIS experience from Esri Eastern Africa, automating data pipelines and creating ArcGIS dashboards to visualize geographic information. Comfortable across REST APIs, automation, and dashboards, he favors sustainable, maintainable solutions that scale. His development style is pragmatic and user-focused, informed by applied computer technology studies from USIU-A and training at Moringa School. Outside work he signs code and commits with the same ethos his GitHub tagline hints at: "Love and Code."
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Moringa SchoolBachelor's degree, Applied Computer Technology, Bachelor's degree, Applied Computer Technology at United States International University - Africa
English, Swahili
Github Skills (9)
forking9
checkout3
mpesa3
java2
commerce2
codeigniter2
api2
android1
kotlin1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Sigilai5/leetcode
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:479 commits, 1803 pushes in 11 months
Sigilai5/cheggTelegramBot
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:52 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
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