Elijah Okello
Software Engineer at INFITX
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
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Top SchoolElijah Okello is a software engineer based in Kampala with six years of experience building cloud-native, tested, and dependable payment and integration systems. He blends Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and CI/CD expertise with hands-on systems integration—most recently implementing a digital retail payments platform for COMESA and integrating prepaid water metering with NWSC that has processed real-world payments and delivered over 1,000,000 litres of water. A passionate open-source contributor, Elijah has worked on Mojaloop vNext and built a CLI deployer for complex payment stacks during a Google Summer of Code placement, giving him rare operational insight into deploying real-time payment networks. He favors clean, well-tested architectures and brings practical DevOps experience from roles at Outbox and INFITX, as well as technical leadership from Alfajiri. Notably, his work spans both social impact projects and cross-border payment infrastructure, showing an appetite for systems that scale and serve underserved communities.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, 4.29/5.0, Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, 4.29/5.0 at Makerere University
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Github Skills (74)
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Github contributions (5)
mojaloop/ml-reference-connectors
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
EXPERIMENTAL: Mojaloop reference connectors which can be used the sdk scheme adapter
Contributions:16 reviews, 182 PRs, 258 pushes in 7 months
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Izyane-InovSolutions/ml-reference-connectors_
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
EXPERIMENTAL: Mojaloop reference connectors which can be used the sdk scheme adapter
Contributions:5 PRs, 40 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
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