Gilbert Kimutai
Technical Founder at Centiras
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolGilbert Kimutai is a technical founder and seasoned fintech engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, high-availability platforms for banks, investment managers, and marketplaces. He scaled a white-label loan origination system from one bank to seven—driving a tenfold increase in disbursed loans—and led a 120-person cross-functional effort to expand BNPL and inventory-finance products across AgTech, eCommerce, and mobility. At Centiras he architected a Kubernetes-based wealth-management stack with RabbitMQ and WebSockets for sub-second market data and achieved 99.95% uptime while shrinking release cycles to under a minute. A hands-on polyglot (Go, Python, Java, Kotlin), he pairs microservice and event-driven design with strong CI/CD and observability practices to accelerate time-to-market and operational resilience. He also contributes to open-source mobile tooling—most notably an Android MPESA SDK—reflecting a practical focus on payments and developer experience. Based in Nairobi, he blends product-minded engineering with mentorship and regulatory awareness to deliver scalable, compliance-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership and Management, Leadership and Management at Amani InstituteBachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, Pure Mathematics, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, Pure Mathematics at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (15)
android-library10
kotlin10
mvvm10
android10
api8
apim8
api-design8
drag-and-drop6
html6
listview6
google-cloud-firestore6
scrollview6
android-recyclerview6
android-layout6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jumaallan/android-mpesa-api
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Android MPESA SDK Library to provide smooth MPESA Experience in Android - Dubbed Daraja
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:28 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gilbert's commits primarily focus on the development of an Android SDK library for MPESA integration, specifically the "Daraja" API. Their contributions include implementing the MVVM architecture, restructuring the project, and converting code to Kotlin. They added the capability to make payment requests, manage access tokens and updated various UI elements.
mpesaandroid-libraryandroiddarajadaraja-api
gilokimu/WooDroid
Jan 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:121 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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