Derdusย Kenga
Technical Content Developer at Microsoft
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolDerdus Kenga is a Technical Content Developer and former university lecturer with over a decade of experience blending technical writing, software engineering, and academia. At Microsoft he authors and maintains over 140 developer-focused articles for the identity platform, driving 170K+ monthly page views and using AI agents to automate parts of his workflow. He has built payment-enabled production systems (Play Framework, PostgreSQL) and led mobile/USSD projects, demonstrating hands-on delivery from prototype to PCI-compliant deployments. As an academic he supervised projects, modernized curricula, and brokered industry partnerships that placed students into internships and jobs, while publishing peer-reviewed research. Comfortable leading distributed teams across four continents, he brings a rare combination of content leadership, developer empathy, and practical cloud-native engineering experience.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachalors, Computer Science, Bachalors, Computer Science at Moi UniversityPhD Information Technology, Cloud Computing, PhD Information Technology, Cloud Computing at Strathmore University
English, Kiswahili
Stackoverflow
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589reached
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Github Skills (66)
uploading10
identity10
microsoft-azure10
msal10
single-page-application10
msal-js10
azure10
azure-ad-b2c10
microsoft10
microsoft-authentication10
azure-active-directory10
microsoft-graph10
single-page9
authentication9
asp-net-core9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/ms-identity-ciam-javascript-tutorial
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
CIAM JavaScript samples
Contributions:21 reviews, 15 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Azure-Samples/active-directory-b2c-msal-node-sign-in-sign-out-webapp
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 18 pushes, 8 comments in 2 months
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