Gideon Gitau
Software Engineer at 2U
Kenya
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Top SchoolGideon Gitau is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with nine years of experience building distributed, cloud-native applications and reusable front-end libraries. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy stacks—migrating AngularJS and ClojureScript fronts to React, normalizing databases, and refactoring monoliths into microservices to enable faster, safer deploys. At 2U he helped move services from Heroku to AWS and Kubernetes and added enterprise SSO integrations, while at Andela he raised test coverage and helped shape product architecture and team processes. Comfortable across Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL and React, Gideon pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and code review to improve team quality and delivery. Based in Kenya, he brings a blend of product-focused engineering and operational experience that consistently turns complex requirements into maintainable, high-performing systems.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Multimedia University of Kenya
English, Kiswahili
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Github Skills (24)
angular-ui-bootstrap6
angularjs6
timeout6
twitter-bootstrap6
javascript6
alerts6
neovim5
vim5
vim-plugin5
tower4
docker4
ansible4
python4
edx3
openedx3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
giddygitau/bucketlist
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
apiflaskpythonbucket-list
giddygitau/amity
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 22 days
amityallocation-systemphpandelaallocation
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