Howard Mnengwa
Software Engineer at Hasibu Systems
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolHoward Mnengwa is a software engineer and product-focused UI/UX practitioner based in Nairobi with nine years of experience crafting intuitive interfaces and end-to-end experiences for internet products. He has blended hands-on frontend development (React, Next.js, Vue) with product design and customer-facing roles at startups and fintechs, helping onboard merchants and troubleshoot real-world operational issues. At Hasibu and Cellulant he built and maintained payment and business tools used across Africa, while also creating developer-friendly integration libraries and checkout portals. He co-founded a web studio early in his career and has mentored aspiring engineers at Moringa School, showing a knack for translating complex requirements into usable flows. Known as a casual cook and armchair philosopher on GitHub, he brings a thoughtful, user-centered perspective to technical decisions. This combination of product empathy, client-facing experience, and technical craft makes him effective at shaping both visuals and the systems behind them.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Kenyatta University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
javascript10
browser10
typescript10
mongodb10
nextjs10
react10
database9
orm-library9
compiler9
ui-components9
postgresql9
hybrid9
query-builder9
facebook9
vercel9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zanake/zanake
Sep 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:57 releases, 1 PR, 94 pushes in 1 year 8 months
shilingi/cowrie
Jul 2020 - May 2022
Cowrie is a JavaScript utility that allows you to add, subtract, multiply, divide, sort & partition monetary values
Contributions:20 releases, 8 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 9 months
financialjavascript-utilitydata-exchangedividemonetary
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