Kevin Gitonga
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Gitonga is an Android and backend engineer with nine years of experience building scalable mobile apps and API-driven systems, primarily using Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose and cloud-native Google Cloud services. He designs end-to-end solutions—from intuitive Android interfaces and MVVM architectures to Strapi-based CMS and Kotlin microservices—having driven product features that boosted engagement by up to 40% and helped reach ~1k daily active users. His portfolio apps for soccer betting insights have surpassed one million cumulative downloads with strong user ratings, reflecting both product-market fit and attention to responsible engagement in developing markets. Comfortable across the stack (Postgres, Firebase, GCE, CI/CD) he writes unit and integration tests and applies best practices like Dagger Hilt and Material3. Currently exploring AI tool integration and GitHub Copilot to automate repetitive work, he brings a practical bias for shipping measurable growth and improving developer efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Science(concentration:Information Technology), Bachelor’s Degree, Information Science(concentration:Information Technology) at Maasai Mara University
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Github Skills (36)
kotlin10
espresso10
robolectric10
java10
databinding10
interactive10
android10
bazel10
android-application10
android-framework10
application10
mvvm-architecture9
android-library9
jetpack-compose9
workmanager9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KevinGitonga/oppia-android
Jun 2022 - Aug 2023
A free, online & offline learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 350 pushes in 1 year 2 months
quality-educationcrosswordlearning-platformaccessibleonline-offline
KevinGitonga/TukoNewsClient
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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