Felix Juma
Team Lead Commercial Pod at Yellow Card
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolFelix Juma is a seasoned software engineer and team lead with 10 years of experience building payments, telco and e-commerce platforms across East Africa. Currently leading the Commercial Pod at Yellow Card, he drives stablecoin integrations, manages platform rates for 23 countries and mentors junior engineers while shaping technical direction. His hands-on background spans Java (Spring Boot), Python, PHP (Laravel/Magento), C++, Node.js and React, and he has practical experience with microservices, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS migrations from his time at Safaricom. Felix pairs product-facing commercial experience with governance exposure—he served on the Nyeri National Polytechnic council—bringing both technical rigor and policy-minded oversight to teams. A quick learner and pragmatic problem-solver, he consistently moves projects from integration to scale in regulated, high-throughput environments.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSC Information Security and Digital Forensics, IT security, MSC Information Security and Digital Forensics, IT security at University of East LondonSoftware Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Kenyatta University
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Github Skills (2)
mpesa9
magento5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Fellojuma/Magento-2-Mpesa-Express-Module
May 2018 - Nov 2020
Magento 2 Mpesa Express Repo
Contributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 6 months
magento-2magento2expressmpesamagento
Fellojuma/simple-form-validator
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 release, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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