James Njiru
Senior Backend Engineer at BuuPass - Bus, Train & Flight bookings
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolJames Njiru is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Nairobi with 8 years of experience building cloud-native, high-performance systems for startups. He architects resilient microservices and reliable CI/CD pipelines using FastAPI, Django, Kubernetes, Terraform, and containerization across AWS and GCP. James has a track record of cutting latency by 40%+ through database tuning and architectural refactors, while improving observability with Prometheus and Grafana. A mentor and pragmatic problem-solver, he champions testability, infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence. He’s curious by nature—researching normals and abnormals—which drives his interest in open source and measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at The Technical University of KenyaProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KITHU/scoreboard
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 4 months
KITHU/codv2-sims1
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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