Christopher Kinyua
Founding Engineer at Kleiner Perkins
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Kinyua is a Founding Engineer and lead frontend specialist with 9 years of experience building customer-facing financial products that scale, currently helping Mine (formerly Fizz) grow a debit card that builds credit for students at 300+ universities. Based in New York, he blends product-minded frontend engineering with startup experience—from a frontend role at Nearside (acquired by Plastiq) to an engineering fellowship at Kleiner Perkins—bringing both execution and investor-facing perspective. He has a Harvard CS background, has taught CS courses including HCI and data visualization, and ships accessible, user-centric interfaces for fintech users. Known for translating complex financial flows into clear UI experiences, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and a knack for turning early-stage product insights into measurable growth.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Harvard UniversityStudy Abroad Computer Science, Study Abroad Computer Science at AIT-BudapestMang'u High School
Github Skills (2)
react4
typescript3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisMunene/ChrisMunene
Jul 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
ChrisMunene/TourKenya
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:68 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
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