Chrispine Chiedo
Software Engineer at Freelance
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolChrispine Chiedo is a software engineer and engineering manager based in Nairobi with a decade of experience building cloud-native, microservices systems and developer curricula. He has blended hands-on delivery—working with Java, Spring Boot/Cloud, Kubernetes and messaging systems on production insurance platforms—with roles in technical content and curriculum leadership at Microsoft and Andela. Currently at BV Labs and freelancing, he pursues Rust and compiler work in personal projects and contributes to open-source, signaling a strong interest in low-level tooling beyond his enterprise stack. He has led hiring and assessment efforts, designed company-wide engineering frameworks, and mentored teams, demonstrating rare crossover skills in engineering enablement and individual contributor excellence. His background in electrical and computer engineering combined with an MSc in Computer Science underpins a systems-first approach to software design. Quietly, he also bridges academia and industry—having taught and revamped engineering programs—bringing pedagogical rigor to team development and documentation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering(B.Eng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering(B.Eng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Moi UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of Nairobi
Swahili, English
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Github Skills (43)
kubernetes10
reactive10
authentication10
java10
quarkus10
trust10
credentials10
cloud-native10
identity9
messaging9
key-management9
end-to-end-encryption9
security9
enforcement9
authorization9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrischiedo/quarkus
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Contributions:23 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
chrischiedo/theafricanengineer.github.io
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Repo to my personal blogging site:
Contributions:1 PR, 150 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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