Getty Orawo
Founder at African Management Institute
Kisumu, Kisumu County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolGetty Orawo is a founder and full-stack software engineer from Kisumu, Kenya, with a decade of industry experience and 4+ years hands-on development including 2+ years in Elixir and Ruby. He currently balances building Kids Get Geeky, a coding school for youth, with engineering work at the African Management Institute and long-running leadership of a Google Developer Group. Getty has shipped backend systems for startups and logistics platforms, thrives in diverse team architectures, and prefers learning by doing—often diving into unfamiliar stacks to solve problems. A community-minded technologist, he has led Elixir/BEAM community efforts in East Africa and enjoys mentoring others while remaining independently productive. His profile reflects both entrepreneurial grit and sustained commitment to growing local developer ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Maseno University
Github Skills (79)
balloon10
javascript9
test-coverage9
devtools9
geolocation9
exchange9
agile9
netsuite9
sketchup9
ruby9
heroku-deployment9
relation9
collaboration9
caching9
rspec-rails9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Podiihq/nailinda
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
location-based health information system which aims at helping solve health related issues in relation to their location
Contributions:80 commits, 27 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 months
solvehealthlocationmedicineaims
GettyOrawo/snakes-and-ladders
Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
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