Daniel Aineah
Senior Frontend Developer at Deel
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Aineah is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Nairobi with over a decade of experience building customer-facing web platforms and integrations. He blends front-end craftsmanship with full‑stack and product sensibilities, shipping features like HubSpot and Zapier integrations, webinar analytics, and scalable media playback while on teams at Hopin and RingCentral. As a former technical lead and co-founder, he has architected secure, payment-enabled marketplaces and e-learning systems serving thousands of users across East Africa. He also has hands-on experience managing teams, performing performance audits, and running on-call incident work using tools like DataDog and Amplitude. Comfortable working across startups and enterprise clients, Daniel pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong sense for product monetization—evident in gating premium features to drive upsells. His Yale economics background and early work in banking and research inform a data-minded approach to building reliable, business-focused software.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Starehe Boys' Centre and SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at Yale University
Github Skills (16)
getstream8
getstream-io8
react-chat8
chat-sdk7
chat7
stream7
sdk6
react6
inline5
javascript4
react-components4
stream-chat4
gravityforms4
laravel3
gatsby2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ycba-cia/linked-data
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 12 days
ylventures/cybermap
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 51 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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