Kevin Barasa
Software Development Consultant at CGA Technologies
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolKevin Barasa is a Software Development Consultant with 11 years of experience building highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems from Nairobi, Kenya. He has led engineering teams and re-architected legacy platforms at fast-growing startups like SafeBoda, driving adoption of cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker) and event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ). Kevin combines hands-on backend expertise across Elixir/Phoenix, NodeJS, PHP and Python with practical infra work on AWS and GCP, enabling reliable production services and observability with Datadog, HoneyComb and Elastic stacks. He has a history of founding and mentoring tech hubs and startups, translating community-building experience into pragmatic technical leadership and talent development. Known for automating ETL and dispatch/matching systems, he brings a pragmatic focus on getting complex integrations and real-time systems to production. His background shows a pattern of moving between hands-on engineering and managerial roles, making him equally effective shipping code or shaping engineering strategy.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, In-complete, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, In-complete at Chuka University 
English, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
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dom-parser9
psr-09
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crowdfunding8
php8
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portal8
browserify6
database6
ecmascript6
jackson6
angularjs6
angularjs-service6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Eldohub/internship-portal-laravel
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
This portal tracks an intern daily milestones against set objectives for the attachment period
Contributions:74 commits, 38 PRs, 65 pushes in 16 days
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bqevin/agrigender-webapp-laravel
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 279 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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