Japheth Obala
Co-Founder at Quill Dev Tools
Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolJapheth Obala is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure and consumer-facing apps from Kenya. He led backend API design, OpenAPI-driven documentation, and emulator provisioning at Quill Dev Tools after improving Netlify’s build service CI performance by migrating scripts from bash to Go. At Microsoft he shipped core SDKs and the Microsoft Graph CLI/Explorer used by hundreds of thousands, and contributes across the stack—from frontend accessibility tweaks in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit to backend HTTP client compression and retry logic in Kiota. Pragmatic and hands-on, he thrives on automating repetitive workflows and improving developer productivity, and left university in his third year to pursue a fast-tracked engineering career.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science , Statistics [Left in 3rd year to join Andela], Bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science , Statistics [Left in 3rd year to join Andela] at Technical University of Mombasa
Swahili, English
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Github Skills (17)
accessibility10
storybook10
testing10
http10
web-components10
go10
api10
compression10
openapi10
javascript9
dotnet9
openapi-codegen9
dotnet-new9
react9
html8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
microsoftgraph/microsoft-graph-toolkit
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Authentication Providers and UI components for Microsoft Graph 🦒
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Japheth primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and accessibility of the Microsoft Graph Toolkit components, particularly within the Storybook environment. Their contributions included modifying Storybook configurations, updating the theme, and improving the accessibility of components like mgt-todo and mgt-person. They also addressed specific UI elements, such as hiding a shortcut button, and made general improvements to the rendering of the components.
authenticationmicrosoft-graphui-componentsweb-componentsmicrosoft-graph-toolkit
microsoft/kiota
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 21 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Japheth primarily contributed to implementing and improving the HTTP client functionality within the Kiota library. Their work focused on adding compression support, including adding the `Accept-Encoding` header and compressing request bodies. They also addressed testing issues and refactored code for better readability. Furthermore, they implemented retries and ensured the correct decompression of response bodies.
code-generationcode-generatorhttp-clientopenapicsharp
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