Harrison Sunda
Senior Backend Developer at Heetch
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolHarrison Sunda is a Senior Backend Developer based in Nairobi with 10 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems. He architected and implemented the Golang backend for Eleza, integrating Safaricom for bidirectional SMS and exposing APIs that handle millions of messages per day. Harrison has held senior backend roles at Heetch and several Kenyan tech firms, blending startup agility with robust engineering practices. He also contributes to open-source tooling—improving data extraction and parallel download scripts for DuckDuckGo’s fathead instant answers—showing a knack for pragmatic scripting and performance improvements beyond core services.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Information Technilogy, Bachelor's degree, Business Information Technilogy at Multimedia University
Github Skills (6)
bash10
perl10
html-parsing9
javascript5
python3
ruby3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on keyword data files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:122 commits, 29 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Harrison primarily contributed to the project by developing a Perl script and related bash scripts to fetch and parse data from the Mozilla CSS Reference website. They created a system for downloading URLs in parallel to improve efficiency. They implemented a system to extract data by creating a parsing script to extract specific data from the downloaded HTML files. The user also focused on cleaning the code for generating the output.
pythonjavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersruby
hchienjo/zeroclickinfo-fathead
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:83 pushes, 29 branches in 9 months
pythonduckduckgoinstant-answersdata-fileskeyword
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