Daniel Kayiwa
Senior Managing Director at Highway Insurance Brokers Limited
Uganda
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Top SchoolDaniel Kayiwa is a seasoned technology and insurance executive with 18 years of experience bridging software engineering and business leadership. As Founder and Senior Managing Director of Highway Insurance Brokers, he leads strategic partnerships, agent networks, and operational growth while overseeing compliance and underwriting. Technically hands-on earlier in his career, he contributed to OpenMRS — a widely used open-source medical records platform — improving REST APIs, reporting, UI tests, and legacy UI stability. His background spans full-stack and backend work, with a particular focus on test automation and reliable RESTful services, reflecting a practical emphasis on quality and maintainability. Based in Uganda, he pairs formal insurance qualifications with a Makerere University degree, bringing rare cross-domain expertise in healthcare software and insurance distribution. Colleagues rely on him for steady leadership, pragmatic engineering judgment, and a talent for keeping complex systems and partnerships working smoothly.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
DIPLOMA IN INSURANCE, Insurance, DIPLOMA IN INSURANCE, Insurance at INSURANCE INSTITUTE OF UGANDABachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Makerere University
Github Skills (39)
unit-testing10
uitest10
api-rest10
debug10
javascript10
selenium10
spring10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
selenium-ide10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
uid10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-module-legacyui
Oct 2015 - Aug 2022
The legacy user interface for OpenMRS Platform 2.x is chiefly comprised of administrative functions and the patient dashboard. Apparently, a new and more contemporary UI has been introduced via a UI framework and the legacy UI is kept around for administrative functions that are not yet implemented in the new UI. To retire the Legacy UI as planned, it is required to move the implementations and modules that still rely on it in order to maintain backwards compatibility. The main idea behind this project is to move legacy UI functions into an OpenMRS module that these implementations can install until they are able to migrate away from it, since most of the implementations of OpenMRS around the world are running OpenMRS 1.9.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 reviews, 229 commits, 97 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on updating dependencies and modifying Java code related to the legacy user interface for OpenMRS Platform 2.x. They changed the platform dependency version, fixed failing tests in user-related controllers, and added additional controller files. The contributions indicate a focus on maintaining and adapting existing functionality within the OpenMRS legacy UI module. The user's changes suggest a familiarity with the OpenMRS codebase and its underlying technologies, possibly including Java and Spring.
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openmrs/openmrs-core
Feb 2011 - Nov 2022
OpenMRS API and web application code
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:943 reviews, 2655 commits, 2012 PRs in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel made several contributions to the OpenMRS Core repository. These contributions involved debugging, fixing of issues, handling validation, and working with the API and database models of the project. They also provided updates for the existing services and added new methods to enable various functionalities.
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