Julie Mugira is a Full Stack Engineer with nine years of experience building user-focused web applications from Nairobi, Kenya. She blends front-end finesse with back-end practicality, having contributed to notable open-source commerce projects like Reaction (working on marketplace features, currency handling, notifications and product validation). At Bricklane and previously at Andela and CareerVillage.org she has focused on shipping bug fixes and UX improvements that tangibly improve admin and merchant workflows. Trained in geo-informatics, she brings an analytical, spatially-minded approach to problem solving and a steady appetite for hands-on learning through real-world code contributions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geo-informatics, geospatial information science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geo-informatics, geospatial information science at Maseno University
Mailchimp Open Commerce is an API-first, headless commerce platform built using Node.js, React, GraphQL. Deployed via Docker and Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Julie primarily contributed to the marketplace functionality, focusing on both frontend and backend aspects. Their work involved fixing bugs related to currency display and notification errors, impacting user experience. They implemented changes to product validation and the user invitation process, indicating a focus on improving user interface elements, bug fixes, and system functionality. These updates addressed issues related to the admin and merchant UI, displaying notifications, and implementing currency conversions.
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.