Derrick Njeru
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolDerrick Njeru is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with nine years of experience building consumer-facing products and leading engineering teams from Nairobi. He combines hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, and Android/iOS development with product-focused leadership gained at Cellulant, where he guided Tingg consumer channels and ensured compliance, security, and quality standards. At Microsoft he now works on AI agents while continuing to contribute to open source, bridging mobile and backend systems with a pragmatic engineering approach. Derrick is notable for moving between individual contributor work and technical leadership, shaping technical vision while still shipping production code.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Meru University of Science and Technology (MUST)
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
algorithm6
android-room6
android6
okhttp6
retrofit6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
derricknjeru/AlgoDatastructure
Feb 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:235 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
derricknjeru/popular-movies-stage-2
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
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