Chomba Nganga
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolChomba Nganga is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with 12 years of experience focused on distributed systems and systems security, currently building at Microsoft. He combines hands-on engineering with deployment and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular MkDocs project where he improved GitHub Pages deployment and CLI tooling. His background spans startups and enterprise roles, advancing from database developer and research assistant to senior engineering positions, and he holds an MSc in Distributed Computing Technology from the University of Nairobi. Colleagues rely on him for practical, secure designs that bridge research-grade thinking and production-grade operations.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Kiambu High SchoolMaster of Science - MSc, Distributed Computing Technology, Master of Science - MSc, Distributed Computing Technology at University of Nairobi
English, Swahili
Github Skills (9)
command-line-interface10
github-pages10
mkdocs10
python10
deployment-automation10
command-line10
cli10
configuration-management9
static-site-generation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mkdocs/mkdocs
May 2015 - May 2015
Project documentation with Markdown.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Python Developer
DevOps Engineer & Python DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Chomba primarily focused on improving the deployment process for the MkDocs project, specifically targeting GitHub Pages deployment. They added and refined command-line options, integrated the `ghp-import` tool, and made changes to configuration settings related to remote branches and commit messages. Their contributions involved changes to both the `cli.py` and `gh_deploy.py` files, demonstrating their ability to work on the project's command-line interface, deployment scripts, and configuration.
mkdocspythonmarkdownstatic-site-generatorproject-documentation
mbacho/projo_system
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:169 commits in 3 months
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