Jimmy Kamau
Chief Technology Officer at Andela
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolJimmy Kamau is a hands-on technical lead and founder with 10 years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, and scalable platforms across fintech, healthtech, and media. He currently leads engineering at Healthcenta while holding senior engineering roles at Andela and contributing backend expertise to platforms like Seismic and Primer, where he built an API-monitoring product that improved debugging and product design. Jimmy has co-founded multiple startups and served as CTO, combining product sensibility with operational engineering—he’s improved API response times, reduced downtime, and increased user engagement in prior roles. Based in Nairobi, he blends formal engineering training in Electrical and Electronics with practical leadership in distributed teams and talent development. Notably, he moves between strategic leadership and deep hands-on work, often shipping observability and API tooling that reveal hidden usage patterns and speed incident resolution.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technical University of Kenya
Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
eb-cli9
points8
electron7
ecommerce7
saleor7
typescript7
snackbar6
sql6
android6
mysql6
documentation5
aws5
editor5
command-line-interface5
microsoft5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jimmykamau/saleor
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
A modular, high performance, headless e-commerce storefront built with Python, GraphQL, Django, and ReactJS.
Contributions:10 PRs, 24 pushes, 8 branches in 8 months
djangoecommercegraphqlpythonreact
jimmykamau/olduka
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:24 PRs, 25 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 1 month
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