Erick Kirabui
Systems Engineer II Fintech at Safaricom PLC
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolErick Kirabui is a Systems Engineer II specializing in fintech with 9 years of experience building cloud-native, backend microservices and resilient payment systems from Nairobi. At Safaricom he led major backend initiatives—centralizing auth with Spring Cloud Gateway and OAuth2, accelerating money aggregation by 80% with Spring Batch, and enabling bulk payments of 20,000+ transactions—while driving testability and unified logging across services. He pairs strong backend expertise in Spring Boot and OpenShift with front-end skills in Vue.js to deliver end-to-end portals, and has led design work that integrated ML for automated birth certificate verification, cutting manual effort by up to 80%. A first-class Computer Science graduate from Strathmore, Erick combines a pragmatic, security-minded developer ethos with a track record of turning complex payments and onboarding challenges into measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, First Class Honors, Computer Science, Computer Science, First Class Honors at Strathmore UniversityHigh School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, B+, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, B+ at Kianyaga High SchoolCrash Course Degree, Mobile/Web Development, Crash Course Degree, Mobile/Web Development at eMobilis InstituteProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ErickNK/PadSearch
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
TopazStudio/TransparentWebApplication
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 21 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
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