James Onyango
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Onyango is a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix with 11 years of experience building pragmatic, outcome-driven software—particularly for resource-constrained environments like global health and financial inclusion. His career spans leadership and hands-on roles at Thoughtworks, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Beyonic, Grameen Foundation and Makerere University, where he designed systems that improved access to healthcare, education, and financial services. At Netflix he partners with cross-functional teams to drive measurable impact at scale, blending product sensibility with engineering rigor. Known for bringing creativity to constrained problems, he combines systems-level architecture with a track record of shipping reliable production services. Based in San Francisco, he holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University and brings a rare mix of field experience in emerging markets and modern cloud-scale engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc Electrical Engineering at Makerere University
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Github contributions (5)
unicefuganda/contacts
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 4 months
oloo/dotfile
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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