Job Obiri
Senior Software Engineer at Toptal
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolJob Obiri is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with about four years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native solutions across e-commerce and security domains. He leads and mentors a team of early-career engineers while shipping production systems using AWS Serverless, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, GraphQL and container tooling like Docker and Kubernetes. His recent focus is on pragmatic security improvements tailored to Kenyan users, blending product-driven design with deep API and backend expertise. Comfortable across languages from Go and Java to C++ and C#, he pairs lifelong learning in AI and Data Science with hands-on delivery for startups and remote platforms like Toptal and Turing. Non-obvious: he has a track record of shipping both bespoke enterprise apps (e.g., legal and church MIS systems) and consumer-facing e-commerce features, demonstrating an ability to bridge legacy use cases and modern cloud architectures.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Kisii UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
obirijob/savanah_frontend
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:11 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
obirijob/School-Web
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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