Erickson Muchiri
Software Engineer at Value Chain Factory
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolErickson Muchiri is a software engineer based in Nairobi with eight years of experience building backend systems and APIs for mobile and web clients. He has led backend development work—designing APIs, managing SQL-based aggregations, and integrating messaging platforms like MQTT, RabbitMQ and Redis PubSub—while delivering production-ready services at startups such as Ally Innovations and Value Chain Factory. Comfortable with Elixir/Phoenix and PostgreSQL from earlier roles, he combines pragmatic business-oriented engineering with hands-on implementation and code review discipline. Erickson’s background in operations and finance gives him a practical appreciation for reliability, data-driven metrics and real-world constraints when shaping technical solutions. Colleagues would note his joy in turning complex problems into simple, maintainable systems and his knack for wrapping core services to fit specific business needs.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance at Co-Operative University CollegeDiploma Information Technology, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Diploma Information Technology, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Kabete Polytechnic
Github Skills (55)
pair-programming9
paperclip9
elixir8
elixir-programming-language8
explore8
payment-gateway8
asdf8
hex8
server7
java7
gleam7
payment7
phoenix-framework7
erlang7
cpp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
r-coh/mix-project-issues
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
valuechainfactory/vc_utils
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Tools and helpers we constantly find repeated in most of our projects.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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