Joel Mukuthu
Co-founder & CTO at Upryt
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJoel Mukuthu is a pragmatic co-founder and CTO with 12 years of experience designing and building full-stack web applications, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling. He moves comfortably between backend (Node.js, Python, Ruby on Rails, PHP), frontend frameworks (Svelte, React, Angular) and database design for both SQL and NoSQL systems, and has production experience with Docker and Kubernetes. At Upryt he combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership, having previously led engineering efforts at GAN Integrity where he shaped multi-tenant auth, hosting and deployment strategies. Joel also has a background in native app development (Qt/Qt Quick) and a history of recovering real revenue through targeted data work, showing an aptitude for pragmatic problem solving. He contributes to open source via GitHub and enjoys improving developer experience through tooling and automation—an indicator of his focus on sustainable engineering practices. Based in Copenhagen, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a strong track record of turning complex requirements into reliable, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Nairobi
English, Swahili, Finnish, Danish
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
filename10
npm-package10
instrumentation10
url-parsing10
sanitize10
svg10
schema10
portable10
fastify10
graphql-api10
nodejs-server10
sinon10
api10
highcharts10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
knorm/to-json
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
toJSON plugin for @knorm/knorm
Contributions:1 release, 67 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 8 months
jsontojson
knorm/timestamps
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
Timestamps plugin for @knorm/knorm
Contributions:108 PRs, 152 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 8 months
plugintimestamps
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