Catherine Chepkurui
Frontend Software Engineer at DigiTax
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolCatherine Chepkurui is a frontend software engineer based in Nairobi with nine years of professional experience and six years focused on React and Ruby on Rails. She builds data-centric, user-facing tools that automate workflows and improve operational efficiency, having shipped products for Twiga Foods, Interstate Parking, and DigiTax. Catherine contributes to open-source, notably enhancing Mozilla’s Pontoon localization platform with UI features and accessibility fixes, reflecting her attention to internationalization and UX polish. She combines full-stack fluency with a track record of leading small teams and coaching junior developers across projects in Python/Django, Node, and Rails. Curious by nature and driven by practical problem-solving, she often turns everyday pain points into maintainable, production-ready solutions. Trained in software development at the Technical University of Mombasa, she pairs technical depth with a collaborative, impact-oriented mindset.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Information Technology - Major in Software Development, Bachelors Information Technology - Major in Software Development at Technical University of Mombasa
Github Skills (11)
uid10
localization10
javascript10
frontend10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
css9
html8
github5
django4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/pontoon
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Mozilla's Localization Platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 53 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Catherine primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Mozilla Pontoon localization platform. Their contributions include implementing new UI features, such as adding links to external resources in the user menu and making status numbers clickable in the progress menu. They also addressed bug fixes and made improvements to the user interface, specifically by removing ellipsis and localizing text elements. The user demonstrated expertise in React, localization practices, and CSS styling.
djangotranslationjavascriptpontoondesign
RailsGirlsMsa/SBWeb
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:85 commits, 25 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 month
cssjavascriptnextjsreact
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