Joseph Thuku
Co-Founder at Elementpay
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Thuku is a software engineer and co-founder based in Nairobi focused on connecting Africa’s 500M+ mobile money users to global crypto liquidity through ElementPay. With four years of hands-on experience across backend, full-stack, and DevOps roles, he has shipped production systems and worked in startup accelerators to refine stablecoin settlement and compliance pathways. His background spans Django backend contributions at SpaceYaTech, internships that strengthened deployment and collaboration skills, and network troubleshooting in healthcare settings. Joseph blends practical engineering with product-minded founder work—designing integrations between mobile money, banks, USSD and blockchain rails. He brings a rare combination of grassroots fintech empathy and technical fluency, motivated by financial inclusion and informed by accelerator-stage strategy and partner development.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Certification, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Cisco Networking AcademySoftware engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software engineering, Computer Software Engineering at ALX AcademyBachelor of science in Information Technology , Computer Science, Bachelor of science in Information Technology , Computer Science at Mount Kenya University - MKU
Github Skills (9)
rio8
backend6
django-rest-framework5
django5
torrent-api5
python4
java2
nodejs2
javascript2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JosephThuku/alx-higher_level_programming
Nov 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:136 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
JosephThuku/JosephThuku
Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:38 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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