Gideon Kimutai
Full Stack Engineer at GRIFFIN Global Technologies, LLC
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolGideon Kimutai is a Full Stack Engineer with 10 years of experience building web applications across Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, and JavaScript/React stacks, currently based in Nairobi and working at GRIFFIN Global Technologies. He has a strong backend focus—leading teams, documenting APIs, normalizing databases, and optimizing ORM queries—while also shipping front-end features and migrations for legacy platforms. Gideon’s background includes multi-year roles at Andela and product work at AfricaSokoni and Relish, where he combined hands-on bug fixes with driving new platform builds. Comfortable with AWS, S3 and Heroku deployments, he brings pragmatic engineering practices and test-driven development to deliver reliable, scalable services. An IT graduate from Kabarak University, he pairs solid academic grounding with a track record of leading backend efforts in distributed teams across Africa and the U.S.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Kabarak University
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Github Skills (86)
python10
rspec10
capybara10
collections10
health10
mental-health10
webpack10
javascript9
react-testing-library9
html9
experiences9
ruby9
mvc9
ruby-on-rails9
react9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gr1d99/rails-blog
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Simple rails blog application
Contributions:87 PRs, 117 pushes, 75 branches in 3 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyblog-applicationrails-blog
gr1d99/shopping-list-api
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:153 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
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