Collins Mucheru
Senior Backend Engineer at Cashia
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolCollins Mucheru is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Nairobi with nine years of experience building resilient backend systems primarily in Erlang and Elixir, and occasional work in Go and other languages. He designs and ships regulatory-facing financial features—KYC, AML tooling and time-series reporting—while also owning GraphQL services and production debugging for high-availability systems. Comfortable across the stack, Collins pairs Phoenix LiveView and Vue on the front end, has built Android and Flutter mobile clients, and deploys his own services with DevOps practices on GCP/AWS. He has led and mentored engineering teams, improved onboarding via documentation and automation, and championed pairing to accelerate complex feature delivery. As a founder of Africabeat he blends product instincts with engineering craft to solve local market gaps in music publishing and charting. Notably, his background includes building XMPP/Erlang components for conversational payments integrated with M-Pesa, showing deep domain experience in fintech and real-time systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma In Software Development, Software Development, Incomplete, Diploma In Software Development, Software Development, Incomplete at Digital Age InstituteK.C.S.E - (A-), A- (80 points), K.C.S.E - (A-), A- (80 points) at Thika High SchoolBachelor of Business and Information Technology (B.B.I.T.), Business and Information Technology, Second Class Honors, Upper Division., Bachelor of Business and Information Technology (B.B.I.T.), Business and Information Technology, Second Class Honors, Upper Division. at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
English, Kikuyu, Swahili, French
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Github Skills (54)
controller10
nginx10
ingress-controller9
docker9
haproxy9
ingress-nginx8
ingress8
nginx-controller8
kubernetes8
azure6
android6
bigdecimal6
erlang6
python6
azure-virtual-machine6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cmush/promo
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
An elixir/phoenix micro service for management of promotional codes for issuing free rides on a ride sharing platform.
Contributions:7 PRs, 33 pushes, 11 branches in 3 months
micro-servicephoenix-frameworksharingelixirelixir-lang
cmush/dsa
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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