Dennis Wambua
Senior Software Engineer at Umba
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolDennis Wambua is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable Python-first systems, from payments and reconciliation platforms to low-latency data pipelines and cloud-native deployments. He has led teams of 10+, architected Kubernetes migrations and automated reconciliation services that cut manual work in half, and improved ML-driven classification accuracy by 80% using LLM integrations. Comfortable across the stack, Dennis combines strong backend expertise (Django, Flask, Postgres) with infrastructure as code (AWS, EKS, Terraform) and a pragmatic TDD/Agile mindset to align technical solutions with business SLAs. Recently he has been blending AI, agentic workflows, and game development—experimenting with LLMs, Godot, and Web3 audits—bringing a creative, product-focused edge to engineering problems. Based in Nairobi, he pairs deep production experience with a knack for rapid iteration and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (66)
python10
travis-ci7
django-caching6
ansible-role6
django6
ubuntu6
docker6
sensu6
django-cache6
memcached6
netscaler5
continuous-testing5
vcenter5
continuous-integration5
deploying5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
onaio/json-to-xls
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
micro-servicexlsjson-formatjsonxls-files
denniswambua/denniswambua.github.io
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
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