Derick Lung'aho
Ag. Chief Program Officer at Medic
Kenya
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Top SchoolDerick Lung'aho is a developer and engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building technology for public, humanitarian, and digital health sectors, currently serving as Acting Chief Program Officer at Medic. He leads cross-regional teams across Africa and Asia to design and deploy open-source community health systems that support over 140,000 community health workers, combining product leadership with hands-on development. Over the past eight years he has specialized in digitized community health using the Community Health Toolkit while mentoring engineering talent and scaling app services. Derick brings deep backend and data experience—from PostgreSQL-focused contributions to the SQLFluff project to building analytics pipelines and DHIS2 integrations—helping translate complex health programs into maintainable, auditable software. Based in Kenya, he balances operational program leadership with active contributions to open-source tooling and a long-standing commitment to last-mile care delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dip. Business Information Technology (Distinction), Dip. Business Information Technology (Distinction) at Strathmore UniversityBsc. Computer Science (First Class), Bsc. Computer Science (First Class) at University of NairobiMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of Nairobi (in progress)
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Github Skills (7)
linter10
postgresql10
lint10
sql10
python10
database-design9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sqlfluff/sqlfluff
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Derick primarily focused on enhancing the SQLFluff project's support for the PostgreSQL dialect. Their contributions included implementing features for materialized views, including `CREATE`, `ALTER`, `DROP`, and `REFRESH` statements, and adding the relevant test fixtures. They added support for `ALTER FUNCTION` and `ALTER VIEW` statements for the Postgres dialect. Furthermore, the user added support for the `COPY` statement and column definitions in table alias expressions.
dialectslinterpypisql-lintertemplated
derickl/conda-recipes
Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:155 commits, 66 pushes in 1 year 6 months
recipesconda
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