Derrick Wadek
Senior Android Engineer at Andela
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolDerrick Wadek is a Senior Android Engineer with eight years of experience building mobile products for fintech, telco, logistics, and agricultural platforms across Africa. He currently leads Android development at Andela for Safaricom’s Employee Super App and previously architected the DigiFarm Village Advisor and modernized Chama fintech solutions, blending Kotlin/Java expertise with REST, GraphQL, and analytics tooling. Derrick pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded design and testing practices, consistently shipping user-centric apps that solve operational and financial inclusion challenges. He also mentors developers (having reviewed and coached thousands in Andela’s learning programs) and writes technical pieces on Medium, translating complex topics into practical guidance. Based in Nairobi, he brings a track record of turning domain-specific problems—like port logistics and remote cash distribution—into robust mobile experiences.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Android development, Nanodegree, Android development at UdacityUniversity of NairobiGoogle: Associate Android Developer (AAD), Computer Software Engineering, Expert, Google: Associate Android Developer (AAD), Computer Software Engineering, Expert at Pluralsight
Github Skills (18)
prepare9
flutter6
javascript5
android-animation5
certificate4
kotlin4
android3
animation3
mvvm2
coroutines2
kodein2
pattern1
java1
architecture1
workmanager1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WadeQ/Mtihani
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Mtihani Revise is an app that will enable High School goers in Kenya sitting for the Kenya National Examinations KCSE certificate at the end of four years to prepare adequately by giving them free and reliable access to all the past KCSE Exam papers from 2000 to 2018. This will help them in revision and also in giving them cheaper access to these materials as they are expensively sold in bookshops.
Contributions:101 commits, 32 PRs, 115 pushes in 4 years 4 months
nationalreliableexaminationscertificatefour
WadeQ/Wadeq
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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