Dennis Gatere
Full Stack Engineer at SC Ventures by Standard Chartered
Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Gatere is a Full Stack Engineer with eight years of experience building web and mobile applications across the fintech sector, currently contributing to SC Ventures by Standard Chartered. He is fluent in Java, JavaScript, Erlang, PHP (Laravel), and Python, and regularly works with MySQL/Postgres, NoSQL stores, Elasticsearch, and Redis to deliver resilient, data-driven systems. Comfortable with cloud-native tooling, he deploys and operates services on Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Azure, and AWS, and integrates payment platforms such as M-Pesa into live products. Dennis has held senior engineering roles at Qhala and core platform experience from Safaricom, bringing a blend of startup agility and enterprise-grade delivery. A collaborative teammate and mentor, he prioritizes shipping usable products and helping others succeed while maintaining hands-on ownership of code and infrastructure. Based in Kenya with a background in Information Systems and Technology, he pairs regional payments expertise with full-stack technical breadth that’s rare among peers.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems and Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems and Technology at United States International University - Africa
Kiswahili, English
Github Skills (43)
node-module10
mws10
b2b10
api10
rest10
rest-api10
nodejs10
mpesa10
efi7
react7
file-transfer6
pkgbuild6
bittorrent6
archlinux6
torrent6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
safaricom/mpesa-node-library
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
M-Pesa Library for Node.js using REST API
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 10 months
m-pesaapinode-jsnode-modulempesa
DGatere/MpesaWebAPI
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year
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