Gitu Mbugua
Software Engineer at Cashia
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolGitu Mbugua is a software engineer based in Nairobi with nine years of practical experience building reliable web and backend systems. He has strong Elixir backend expertise—having progressed from intern to full-time engineer at Cashia—alongside hands-on frontend work in Angular and Node.js, giving him true full-stack fluency. His background includes application security audits, reverse engineering Android apps, and mentoring at Moringa School, reflecting a blend of secure-by-design thinking and developer coaching. Comfortable in Agile teams, he drives quality through code reviews, testing, and pragmatic API design (GraphQL and REST) to improve performance and reliability. Colleagues value his curiosity and rapid learning style, evidenced by quick pivots between roles from security intern to backend engineer while contributing to product roadmaps.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Computer Software Engineering, Software Development, Computer Software Engineering at Moringa SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at United States International University - Africa
English, Swahili
Github Skills (9)
bus8
creative-commons6
perl6
spring-boot6
java5
python5
displays4
react2
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GituMbugua/unsplash-clone
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
GituMbugua/bus-board
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
An online booking system for bus tickets in Kenya
Contributions:48 commits, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 19 days
spring-bootpythononline-bookingbusbooking-system
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