Galgallo Wako
Freelance Software Engineer at Upwork
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolGalgallo Wako is a freelance software engineer based in Nairobi with nine years of hands-on experience building web applications, REST APIs, and enterprise solutions. He brings a strong foundation in databases, SQL, system administration and Ruby on Rails, and has implemented JVM-based backend services using Kotlin, Spring Boot, ESB patterns and Kafka for high-throughput scenarios. His career spans distributed team collaboration at Andela, enterprise integrations at BSK Global, and ongoing freelance work on Upwork, demonstrating an ability to move between product-focused and client-driven projects. Comfortable mentoring juniors and conducting peer code reviews, he pairs practical engineering with a commitment to continuous learning rooted in an IT degree from Jomo Kenyatta University. An often-overlooked strength is his early work automating data aggregation and web scraping using XPath/Regex, which underpins a pragmatic approach to solving messy real-world integration problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
English, Kiswahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
django7
django-rest-framework7
tinyurl7
project-management6
python6
docker5
javascript1
api1
weconnect1
app-service1
android1
flask1
flutter1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gwako94/FastFoodFastApi
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:63 PRs, 123 pushes, 61 branches in 9 months
gwako94/My_Practice_Codes
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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