Fredrick Ochola
Co-founder And CTO At CompetaMillman at Absa Bank Kenya
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolFredrick Ochola is a seasoned software leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of CompetaMillman with over 10 years of hands-on experience delivering full-stack systems across startups, NGOs, government and enterprise clients. He blends deep technical expertise in Python (FastAPI), PHP (Laravel, Yii), Elixir and JavaScript with strong architectural judgment to build scalable, user-focused applications and integrations on AWS, Azure and local clouds. Fredrick has a proven track record of operational impact—from automating bank workflows at Absa to building ERPs and real-time data systems for health and agriculture programs—while mentoring hundreds of junior developers through an in-house training program that he helped create. He introduced Agile practices and engineering standards early in his career, lifting delivery quality and customer satisfaction at BTI Millman, and later negotiated a strategic merger to form CompetaMillman. Comfortable both coding and steering technical strategy, he also invests in product-led features like AI-driven recommendations for media platforms, reflecting a knack for combining technical depth with business outcomes. Based in Nairobi with a Master’s in Computational Intelligence, he brings pragmatic leadership and a talent for turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
KCSE, O Levels, A, KCSE, O Levels, A at Starehe Boys' Centre & SchoolMaster's degree, Computational Intelligence, Master's degree, Computational Intelligence at University of Nairobi
English, Kiswahili
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Github Skills (15)
multiple-languages8
elixir7
cli7
powershell7
bash7
golang6
shell6
nodejs6
erlang6
python6
ruby6
zsh6
asdf-vm4
nushell3
elvish3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mconyango/tutorial
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
mconyango/url-shortener
Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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