Erick Wachira
Full Stack Engineer at Octagon Africa
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolErick Wachira is a Full Stack Engineer with eight years of professional experience and over five years building scalable web applications and CLI tools, specializing in Golang, React, and Node.js. He has delivered measurable performance and cost improvements across finance, e-commerce, and customer support platforms—refactoring GraphQL/Postgres queries and cutting load times and infrastructure costs. Erick has built latency-sensitive real-time systems (speech-to-animation with <100ms targets), high-throughput WebSocket services, and AI/data platforms for banking using Neo4j and secure third-party integrations. He moves fluidly between front-end optimizations (WebGL/Canvas, React) and back-end orchestration (worker pipelines, Redis, Google Cloud), shipping production-hardened features and observability. Known for quickly bringing products to market, he launched an AI chatbot in 30 days and reduced a Unity app’s load time from minutes to seconds. Based in Nairobi, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a focus on performance and measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Pumwani SchoolSoftware Development Computer Software Engineering, Software Development Computer Software Engineering at Andela
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
react8
authorize7
adyen7
paypal7
audio-streaming6
heroku6
telegram6
nodejs6
payment6
telegram-bot6
telegraf6
haven6
axios6
django6
zip6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tesh254/thedevnote
May 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 31 pushes in 2 years 5 months
tesh254/migraine
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
migraine is a robust CLI tool used to organize and automate complex workflows with templated commands. Users can define, store, and run sequences of shell commands efficiently, featuring variable substitution, pre-flight checks, and discrete actions.
Contributions:1 release, 18 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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