Jama Mohamed is a software engineer with 8 years' experience building scalable, production-grade systems for fintech at JUMO in Nairobi, currently focused on core product engineering. He has strong end-to-end chops across backend services, data streaming (Debezium, Kafka, Flink, Spark), and cloud-native delivery (Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, Terraform, Argo), plus hands-on telemetry and SRE practices with Datadog. Jama also contributes to open-source mobile tooling—authoring and testing core features for a Flutter date/time package—demonstrating a pragmatic learning-by-building approach. Former roles in customer and business risk highlight his ability to design reliable fraud, credit and sanctions checks integrated with telcos and banks. He pairs a Business Information Technology degree from Strathmore with a curiosity for systems that improve people’s lives, often learning new technologies by shipping them.
8 years of coding experience
Barchelor in Business Information Technology, Business Information Technology, Barchelor in Business Information Technology, Business Information Technology at Strathmore University
Contributions summary:Jama primarily contributed to setting up and testing the functionality of a Flutter-based date and time package, "Jiffy". The commits involve setting up the test environment, implementing get methods for date and time components, and implementing methods for manipulating dates and times. These contributions suggest a focus on building the core features of the Flutter package.
This is an MPESA ledger project that receives and listens to SMS from MPESA to create an analytical view of your MPESA transactions, that is, deposits and withdrawals all stored in an SQLite Database. Other features include categorizing your transaction, calculating MPESA transactions fees and a year monthly summary
Contributions:2 releases, 20 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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Jama Mohamed - Software Engineer - Core Product at JUMO