John Kiragu
Site Reliability Engineer at Hasura
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Kiragu is a Site Reliability Engineer with 10 years of experience building resilient backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure from Nairobi. He is a polyglot backend engineer comfortable in Java, Python and Haskell, and has operationalized services on AWS using ECS, Kubernetes, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, DynamoDB, Redis and RDS. At Hasura he focuses on reliability and scalability while prior roles at AZA Finance, JUMO.WORLD and Cellulant honed his payments and fintech backend expertise. He combines a strong academic foundation in mathematics with practical DevOps discipline, favoring pragmatic, well-automated solutions to thorny production problems. Known for relishing tough challenges, he brings both deep technical breadth and a curiosity-driven approach to system design and troubleshooting.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Pure Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Pure Mathematics at University of Nairobi
English
Stackoverflow
111reputation
9kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (125)
python10
messenger10
http10
asgi10
microservices10
django10
ionic10
wsgi10
audio10
api10
rest10
api-rest10
typescript10
chat-application10
angular-cli10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kigsmtua/kigsmtua.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jul 2024
My Jekyll Blog Engine
Contributions:8 PRs, 105 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 7 months
jekyll-blogblog-enginejekyll
kigsmtua/haskell-snap-realworld-example-app
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Exemplary real world backend API built with Haskell/SnapFramework https://realworld.io
Contributions:45 commits, 10 PRs, 37 pushes in 7 months
backendhaskell
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.