Kenny Rachuonyo
Senior Software Engineer at Freelance
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Rachuonyo is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, cost-conscious data and web systems for startups and medium-sized companies from Nairobi. He blends Python-driven web development (Django/Flask) and JavaScript (React) with DevOps and cloud automation (AWS, Terraform, Ansible) to deliver low-latency event processing, batch feature generation, and production ML pipelines. At JUMO he engineered a scheduled feature service handling thousands of features per run and cut big-data processing costs by 10x through PySpark and AWS optimizations. He’s comfortable customizing open-source stacks end-to-end and provisioning on-demand infrastructure to keep operational costs down while maintaining high availability. A pragmatic continuous-delivery advocate, Kenny also contributes to open-source projects and pursues deep learning studies via fast.ai to bridge ML research and production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Starehe Boys CenterDeep Learning, Deep Learning at fast.aiBachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science at University of Nairobi
Kiswahili, English
Github Skills (136)
python10
ubuntu10
irc-server10
bitcoin10
analytics-tracking10
tdd10
blockchain10
solidity9
cryptocurrencies9
pooling9
management9
sentence9
starter-kit9
forge9
accounting9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
krmboya/ssitegen
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 5 months
programmer-ke/coding-katas
Jan 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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