James Ngugi
Director at Deadan Group Limited
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolJames Ngugi is a product-focused technology leader with 11 years of experience building user-centered software and mobile apps from Nairobi, Kenya. As Director at Deadan Group and Technical Director at Herufi Technologies, he architects integrations (MPESA, Equity Bank), analytics pipelines (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude) and pragmatic microservice architectures that have supported millions of learners and commerce flows. He co-founded Report Taka, applying NLP and social APIs to crowdsource urban waste reporting, demonstrating a knack for civic tech and applied machine learning. James combines hands-on engineering with strategic direction—designing secure, reusable systems while coaching teams to deliver usable, useful products. Behind the roles he’s driven by a maker’s ethos: technology is merely the tool for crafting delightful, anticipatory experiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mobile Telecommunications and Innovation, Master’s Degree, Mobile Telecommunications and Innovation at Strathmore UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honors, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honors at University of EldoretKCSE, KCSE at Karen South School
English, Kiswahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (111)
sitemap10
seo10
sitemap-xml10
sitemap-generator10
tenancy10
xml10
laravel9
multitenancy9
php9
saas9
credit9
paypal8
payment8
health8
one-time-password8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
deadangroup/salami-sdk
Apr 2020 - Jun 2024
PHP SDK for Salami
Contributions:3 releases, 30 PRs, 65 pushes in 4 years 2 months
phpphp-sdksdk
deadangroup/laravel-whatsapp-widget
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025
Laravel Whatsapp Widget
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 1 month
widgetwhatsapp-widgetwhatsapplaravel
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