Julius Kiano
Senior Software Engineer at OkHi
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolJulius Kiano is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with nine years of experience building scalable mobile and web platforms for startups, with a strong focus on E‑Commerce and Fintech integrations. He architects low-latency infrastructure and APIs on AWS and GCP, leveraging Kubernetes, Node/Nest.js and observability stacks to meet SLA and privacy requirements. Julius drives developer productivity through automation, tooling and best practices, and maintains multiple open-source SDKs and libraries that simplify KYC and addressing workflows across Web, React Native, Flutter and native platforms. He combines hands-on mobile experience—having led flagship React Native apps—with backend performance engineering and automated testing to ensure reliable production systems. A pragmatic collaborator, he iterates closely with integrators and users to make complex integrations feel simple, and his GitHub persona hints at a playful mentorship mindset behind his teachable, developer-first approach.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
KCSE, kcse, KCSE, kcse at Aga Khan High SchoolMaster’s Degree, Mobile Telecommunications And Innovation, Master’s Degree, Mobile Telecommunications And Innovation at Strathmore UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Nairobi
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (40)
geofencing10
ios10
react-native10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
react10
mobile-development9
raven9
javascript9
javascript-client9
typescript9
background-location9
expo9
app-framework9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OkHi/react-native-okhi
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:30 releases, 15 PRs, 156 pushes in 3 years 6 months
OkHi/okhi-flutter
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:21 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 3 years
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