James Kinyua
Contributor at Layer5
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kinyua is a pragmatic software engineer with 9 years of experience building web and distributed systems, fluent in JavaScript, React, Node.js and TypeScript. He has driven measurable performance and reliability gains—shrinking page load times at Layer5 by 23%, offloading email work to background services to cut API response times by 43%, and improving test coverage and SDK quality across multiple teams. Comfortable across the stack, he has modernized dashboards (Next.js, Storybook), implemented internationalization for multi-market e-commerce, and automated tedious customer workflows with RPA. Based in Nairobi, he combines strong engineering fundamentals from a Bachelor’s in IT with practical experience in cloud and AWS services, and is developing interest and hands-on exposure in distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Zero To Mastery AcademyKhan AcademyBachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Second Class Honors, Upper Division, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Second Class Honors, Upper Division at Mount Kenya University - MKU
English, Swahili
Github Skills (56)
opa10
ux-design10
kubernetes10
docker10
visualization10
catalog10
configuration-management10
kubernetes-operator10
terraform10
meshery10
design-patterns10
gitops10
infrastructure10
aws10
api-gateway10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JayKay24/bucket_list_app
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:38 PRs, 46 pushes, 14 branches in 22 days
JayKay24/coding_challenges
Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:199 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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