Denis Gathondu
Senior Software Engineer at Andela
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Gathondu is a senior AI and backend engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems that combine LLMs and ML pipelines with scalable microservices. He has led API and SaaS platform development, re-architected monoliths into microservices, and deployed retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuned models in production across AWS/GCP environments. Comfortable across Python (Django, FastAPI), Node.js, and modern DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform), he emphasizes TDD, CI/CD, and performance optimization to handle millions of requests daily. Denis pairs hands-on implementation—shipping end-to-end apps like field and greenhouse-gas tools—with team leadership and mentorship, having managed engineering teams and driven best-practice adoption. Based in Nairobi, he is inquisitive and detail-oriented, often integrating LLMs into data-capture flows to reduce corruption and accelerate digitization.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)
English, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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21kreached
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Github Skills (24)
health8
morph8
react-router6
dart6
react-router-v46
flutter6
react6
google-cloud-storage6
api6
scraper6
react-component6
google-cloud-platform6
django4
python3
allocation2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Gathondu/healthtools_ke
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:28 PRs, 128 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
scrapermorphscrapershealthtools
Gathondu/xanadu
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:46 PRs, 80 pushes, 21 branches in 8 months
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