Kevin Kavai
Chief Technology Officer at Bizna Kenya
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolKevin Kavai is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Nairobi with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing digital platforms for SMEs and civic tech. He has guided end-to-end platform architecture, performance optimization, and security governance at Bizna Kenya while previously delivering data portals (notably a customized CKAN deployment for Jaantus at opendata.so) and web tools for The Open Institute. Comfortable spanning front-end design and back-end systems, Kevin combines hands-on development and tooling with mentoring experience in graphic design and practical training delivery. He is pragmatic about resilience and institutional documentation, aligning technology roadmaps with organizational growth and risk management. A background that started in web and multimedia design gives him a distinct eye for usable data presentations and product-aligned UX even in infrastructure-focused roles.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Graphic design, web development, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Graphic design, web development at Nairobits School of Digital design
English, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
normal10
serve10
staging9
woocommerce-functionality9
cross-reference9
transparency9
trac9
version-control9
mpesa8
wordpress-admin8
payment-gateway8
datasets8
mercadopago7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenInstitute/Nuru-Live-Feedback-Dashboard
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Nuru - Kiswahili for “Light “ (nuru.live) – is a platform that allows citizen community monitors around the world to make observations about the social and human rights impact of crises as the Covid-19 pandemic.
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
monitorsreactcriseslightdjango
OpenInstitute/Community-Dashboard
May 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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