Franklin Magoba
Software Engineer at GitStart Community (YC S19)
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolFranklin Magoba is a versatile software engineer based in Nairobi with 8 years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems across startups and enterprise clients. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python) with product-minded delivery, API design, and operational best practices, and has led backend architecture and integrations for insurance and developer-platform products. At GitStart he supports a central system that orchestrates many contributors and has contributed to Python ML work including LLM fine-tuning and data pipelines—showing a rare mix of platform engineering and applied ML. He mentors junior engineers, drives testing and CI practices, and has repeatedly delivered high-performance cross-platform apps using Flutter, Redis, MongoDB and GraphQL. Known for translating business needs into reliable, well-documented solutions, he pairs technical depth with a pragmatic focus on developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 2nd Class Upper Division, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 2nd Class Upper Division at Multimedia University of KenyaK.C.S.E, Computer Studies and Physics, A, K.C.S.E, Computer Studies and Physics, A at Sigalame High School
Github Skills (61)
javascript10
sqlite10
postgresql10
mysql10
restful-api10
mariadb10
spreadsheet10
open-source10
swagger10
laravel10
airtable10
data-import10
rest-api10
low-code9
no-code9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
frankMagoba/Random-problems
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:53 commits, 77 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
frankMagoba/Resume
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Resume
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 10 months
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