James Oguya
Site Reliability Engineer at Wave Mobile Money
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolJames Oguya is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Nairobi with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and highly available systems. He currently ensures reliability at Wave Mobile Money and previously architected and secured AWS production environments, partner integrations, and automation tooling at JUMO. His background spans HPC and distributed storage design at ILRI, Linux systems orchestration with Ansible and Kickstarts, and early mobile and web development research—giving him a rare blend of operational rigor and hands-on development experience. Known for turning repeatable runbooks, monitoring, and security practices into production-grade workflows, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to stabilizing complex financial and research platforms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Nairobi
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Github Skills (124)
ubuntu10
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manjaro9
scheme9
pypi9
rna-seq8
bcftools8
linux8
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
oguya/bsrs
Dec 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 3 months
oguya/oguya.github.io
Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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