Hungai Amuhinda
Head Of Engineering at The Good Drone Company
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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SeniorHungai Amuhinda is a Head of Engineering and seasoned distributed-systems practitioner with 11 years of experience building high-performing teams and production-grade software across startups and fintech. Based in Nairobi, he brings hands-on expertise in Scala, Go, telemetry and systems design from roles at Lightbend, Bread Financial and leadership positions at Zembo and Kyosk. He combines engineering leadership with an active angel investing practice, backing seed and pre-seed startups such as The Good Drone Company and HoaQ, and looks for founders attacking complex, industry-disrupting problems. A community builder and speaker, Hungai organizes Nairobi JVM meetups and translates deep technical knowledge into team-level coaching and scalable delivery practices. He has a track record of creating engineering functions from scratch and shipping reliable distributed systems under real-world constraints. Notably, he pairs pragmatic product focus with low-level telemetry expertise that helps teams observe and iterate on system behavior quickly.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (65)
actor-framework10
websocket10
http-client10
cloud-native10
actor-model10
concurrency10
streaming10
reactive10
acl10
akka10
akka-streams10
high-performance10
database10
concurrent10
jvm10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hungaikev/messenger
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
hungaikev/soma
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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