Collins Nji
Software Engineer III at American Express
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCollins Nji is a Software Engineer III based in Washington, D.C., with a decade of hands-on experience building data-driven and backend systems across fintech, research, and open-source healthcare projects. Currently improving personalization for American Express commercial cards, he progressed rapidly through roles from intern to senior engineer while founding an intern spotlight program that showcases diverse talent. His background blends applied ML and data engineering—delivering high‑accuracy labeling and classification pipelines at CSET and Data Science for Social Good—with backend fixes and documentation contributions to the notable OpenMRS core. Comfortable shipping production systems and mentoring teams, he also has experience at DeepMind, Google Code‑In mentoring, and leading engineering efforts for social analytics, demonstrating curiosity that spans research and product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Mount St. Mary's University
English, French
Stackoverflow
201reputation
178kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (17)
java10
javas10
openmrs10
health9
error-handling9
ehealth9
medical9
debug8
debugging8
ibm-watson6
curl6
bubble-sort6
sorting6
nodejs6
github6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-core
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
OpenMRS API and web application code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 34 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Collins primarily contributed to fixing code practices and addressing typos and grammar errors within the OpenMRS core. These changes included improvements in error handling, fixing incorrect encoding and API calls. The user also updated the documentation and corrected code comments.
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collinsnji/Snacky
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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