Eric Ouma
Software Developer at Siege Software
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolEric Ouma is a backend-focused software developer with eight years of engineering experience and over five years of professional Python development, specializing in high-volume data pipelines and music metadata processing. He currently architects and optimizes Django-based systems that handle messy cue sheets, DDEX, and CWR files—tuning a view for tables with over 70 million rows and quadrupling CWR processing throughput. A Top Rated Upwork freelancer, open-source maintainer (django-typesense), and active Stack Overflow contributor, he also builds production-grade integrations with Google Drive, Dropbox, and Azure Document Intelligence. His background spans applied machine learning and systems engineering—he built a TensorFlow/OpenCV face-mask detection system and helped develop a Django-monitored medical ventilator during COVID-19. Based in Nairobi, Eric is expanding into Go to broaden his backend toolkit while continuing to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for the media and SaaS domains.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering at Kenyatta University
Stackoverflow
533reputation
43kreached
19answers
38questions
Github Skills (69)
python10
xadmin10
xls10
simple-email-service10
django10
adminlte10
csv10
django-admin10
json10
admin10
django-email10
jazzy10
dashboard9
test-data9
django-project9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
EricOuma/engineering_festival
Mar 2021 - Aug 2023
The Engineering Festival event website for IEEE Kenyatta University Student branch.
Contributions:8 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 5 months
engineeringstudent-branchieee
Siege-Software/django-typesense
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Django Search Powered by Typesense
Contributions:13 releases, 1 review, 92 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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