Joshua Isaac
Lead Engineer at Gwiji for Women
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolJoshua Isaac is a Lead Engineer with nine years of experience designing and operating high-performance backend systems for fintech and mission-driven startups from Nairobi. He has repeatedly reduced latency and accelerated settlements—most recently cutting inter-service latency by up to 50% through DNS caching and connection pooling—and built payment and payroll platforms that moved settlements from days to near-instant. As a founding engineer he shaped product and market strategy while driving social impact, including initiatives that materially improved casual workers' wages. Joshua combines hands-on systems optimization with team mentorship and pragmatic cloud architecture to keep products resilient and cost-effective at scale. He stays active exploring AI and robotics trends to inform future product directions, bringing a blend of technical depth and operational instinct to fast-growth environments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Kenyatta University
English, English, English
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Github Skills (5)
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primary-key6
sql6
mysql6
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jayisaac0/PHP-School-management-system
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
jayisaac0/shophapo
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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