Summary
Elijah Baraza is a Lead Software Engineer based in Nairobi with nine years of practical experience delivering web, mobile, database, and blockchain solutions. At Busara Center for Behavioral Economics he leads teams that design and implement end-to-end systems, APIs, and data architectures while acting as the primary bridge between clients and developers. His background spans financial systems, USSD and mobile payments, and backend integrations from early freelance work to enterprise banking projects, giving him a pragmatic focus on robust, auditable systems. Elijah blends hands-on coding with project leadership, routinely moving prototypes into production, and he brings uncommon depth in database design and blockchain application development for research-driven products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of East London