Summary
Hosea Mungai is a founding engineer and entrepreneur with six years of experience building scalable web and microservice architectures across fintech, real estate, and B2B platforms from Nairobi. He blends hands-on backend expertise in Python (Django, FastAPI) and microservices with frontend work in React/TypeScript, and has led engineering teams, product ownership, and integrations with banks, ERPs and AI services like GPT-4 and Whisper. As Founder of Lipa Fees and former Head of Engineering at Alfa Systems, he has shipped mobile PWAs, React Native apps, and production-grade APIs using Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS and Elasticsearch. His background in cybersecurity and early work on blockchain-powered trading platforms give him a practical security-first mindset not obvious from titles alone. Comfortable moving between prototype-stage startups (Antler) and productizing enterprise systems, he combines entrepreneurial curiosity with disciplined delivery.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology in Computer and Electronic Systems, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Technology in Computer and Electronic Systems, Computer Software Engineering at Mount Kenya University - MKU