Gerald Onyango
Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Cobalt
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarGerald Onyango is a Senior Manager of Software Engineering based in New York with nine years of professional engineering experience and a decade-plus background in telecom support and developer tooling. He has led teams at GitHub modernizing the Pull Requests experience—moving core UX to React and launching features like file tree and a new merge flow—while also applying LLMs to detect and fix code issues. Prior to GitHub he built backend services, CLIs, and integrations at Netlify and architected serverless GraphQL and React solutions for startups, pairing hands-on coding in Go, Node, and JS with documentation and developer education. Gerald combines strong operational experience supporting large user bases with product-driven engineering leadership, and he often blends systems-level problem solving with practical developer UX improvements.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Swahili, luo (kenya and tanzania), English
Github Skills (89)
cms10
javascript-client10
authentication10
npm-package10
specification10
netlify-cms10
javascript10
client-library10
decap-cms10
api-specification10
api10
jwt10
gatsby10
content-management-system10
netlify10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
futuregerald/react-netlify-form-file
Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 1 month
futuregerald/identity-test-functions
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 8 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year
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