Kathure Charity
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolKathure Charity is a software engineer with a strong track record in distributed systems, container tooling, and AI, backed by an MSc in Computational Intelligence and 9+ years of industry experience. At Microsoft she shipped Docker–containerd integration on Windows, hardened container monitoring with fuzz testing and code signing, and improved runtime scalability for large enterprise deployments. Earlier roles in banking and enterprise software show a pragmatic focus on performance and automation—reducing a statement-generation pipeline from five days to two hours and leading RPA initiatives. She combines research in deep learning for anomaly detection with hands-on systems engineering, pursuing multimodal AI applications in medicine and high-performance computing. A mentor in Microsoft’s global programs, she blends open-source contributions and cross-team collaboration to drive adoption and reliability in production environments. Based in Nairobi, she brings a rare mix of low-level systems expertise and applied AI research to solve real-world clinical and infrastructure challenges.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Egerton UniversityMSc, Computational Intelligence, MSc, Computational Intelligence at University of Nairobi
Kiswahili, English
Github Skills (42)
podman10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
go-language10
ecosystem10
moby10
windows-containers10
containerization10
chroot10
containerd10
go10
assemble10
golang10
isolation10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CharityKathure/moby
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 88 pushes in 1 year 2 months
microsoft/windows-container-tools
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Collection of tools to improve the Windows Containers experience
Contributions:1 release, 111 reviews, 7 commits in 7 months
containerswindowswindows-containers
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