Eugene Odera
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolEugene Odera is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with 8 years of experience building cloud-native, people-centric systems and currently driving AI-powered People Search at Microsoft. He designs ranking and recommendation algorithms while leading teams to deliver highly reliable, cost-efficient services that meet strict SLAs, with a strong hands-on toolkit in C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Kubernetes, SQL/Postgres and Cosmos DB. Eugene has a track record of improving microservice performance and scalability, leading cloud migrations, and ensuring 99.99% reliability for high-throughput services like Skype/Teams Avatar Service. He combines pragmatic engineering—SOLID, CQRS, DDD and solid testing practices—with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration to turn complex product needs into operational systems. Based in Nairobi, he pairs a solutions-oriented mindset with measurable impact (e.g., 40% performance gains, 50% scalability improvements, and production features that boosted customer engagement). Outside core work, he shares ideas publicly (http://eugeneogongo.github.io/) and values practical, people-first engineering.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)
English, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (124)
transient10
windows10
asp-net-core10
cosmosdb10
asp-net10
fallback10
polly10
azure-cosmos-db10
linux10
dotnet10
api10
sdk10
cross-platform10
fault10
csharp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eugeneogongo/Auto-Text-Alt
May 2020 - Sep 2022
This project shows how to achieve web accessibility by auto generating Texts from images
Contributions:10 PRs, 16 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 4 months
accessibilityweb-accessibilitytextsa11y
eugeneogongo/eugeneogongo.github.io
Aug 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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