Summary
Kent Marete is a Senior Software Engineer based in Birmingham with nine years of hands-on experience building bank-grade integrations, mobile apps and backend services using Rust, Python, Java and Android. He has led teams and delivered credit-scoring, loan-facility and back-office features at Equity Bank while previously driving integrations, APIs and automation at fintechs like JUMO, Cellulant and Software Group. Comfortable across the stack and in production environments, he pairs deep systems knowledge (Linux, databases, ISO8583/SOAP) with modern tooling such as Docker, Ansible and AWS. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical lead who organizes code reviews, refactors and architecture dives to keep systems robust and auditable. Passionate about Rust and platform security, he actively explores containerization and React Native to broaden mobile and backend convergence. He combines strong communication and operational experience from mission-critical financial projects with a curiosity for blockchain and secure platform engineering.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Makerere University