Idd Salim
Lead Developer - Wajibu Platform
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolIdd Salim is a seasoned lead developer and systems engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient, resource-efficient systems for Kenya’s mobile and civic tech landscape. As founder of Wajibu and long-time lead at Xema Labs, he blends deep Unix/Linux/FreeBSD administration, database tuning, and mobile-first software design to deliver production-grade constituency management and messaging platforms. His background as an IT security consultant and self-described inventor means he approaches problems with a hacker’s curiosity and strong operational discipline, often squeezing high value out of constrained environments. Idd is passionate about mentoring African apprentices and translating low-level systems expertise into practical products that scale across networks and devices.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Starehe Boys' Center
Arabic, Portuguese, BantuGithub contributions (1)
johninvictus/mGenie
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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