Ezrqn Kemboi
Head Of Engineering at Stealth Mode
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolEzrqn Kemboi is a pragmatic engineering leader with 8 years of experience building scalable, maintainable web applications and APIs, currently serving as Head of Engineering for a stealth startup after a Senior Backend Engineer role at Yellow Card. He combines hands-on expertise in Node.js/TypeScript, SQL and NoSQL databases, GraphQL, and system design with practical CI/CD and deployment experience, and he continuously seeks to deepen his DevOps skills. Ezrqn has led teams at The Jitu Group and mentored engineers since his early days at Andela, favoring leadership through guidance rather than management. An active open-source maintainer on validator.js, he has contributed mobile phone and locale validations that impact millions of monthly downloads. Based in Nairobi, he pairs strong computer science fundamentals with a user-focused approach to shipping robust software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, Computational and Applied Mathematics, General Education, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Chebara Boys High SchoolGeneral Studies, General Studies at Kapsowar Primary SchoolBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Machakos UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Gretsa University
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Github Skills (13)
nodejs10
javascript10
validation10
validations10
heroku6
monorepo6
lerna6
material-ui6
react-router-v46
postgresql6
yarnpkg6
npm-scripts6
react6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
validatorjs/validator.js
May 2019 - Feb 2022
String validation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:89 reviews, 24 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ezrqn primarily contributed to the `validator.js` library by implementing and fixing mobile phone format validations for various locales. Their work involved adding new locales such as Chile, Austria (de-AT), France oversea department, and Ireland. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs related to existing validation rules, including fixes for Fiji mobile phone formats and improved the isHash and isPostalCode functionality.
string-validationstringvalidationjavascriptvalidations
ezkemboi/hello_books
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
This application is a library management including stocking, tracking and renting books
Contributions:198 commits in 9 months
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