Kevin Ochieng
Senior Software Engineer
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolKevin Ochieng is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience and over six years working remotely to build high-performance, scalable SaaS and financial platforms across African and frontier markets. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS, with deep expertise in API design, database optimization (Postgres/MySQL), and payment/FX systems that handle thousands of daily transactions. At AZA Finance he led backend architecture for cross-border payments, focusing on reliability, security, and integrations that improve last-mile settlement. Kevin pairs pragmatic engineering—CI/CD, TDD, Docker/Kubernetes—with product-minded collaboration across product, QA, and support teams to deliver measurable business impact. He’s comfortable refactoring legacy codebases into microservices and brings a keen interest in making complex financial workflows auditable and performant.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Github Skills (66)
balloon10
exchange9
bug-tracker9
ruby9
collaboration9
rspec-rails9
api-documentation9
rails9
sketchup8
agile8
api8
geolocation8
javascript8
ruby-on-rails8
heroku-deployment8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
champagnepappi/todos-api
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:61 PRs, 61 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months
champagnepappi/Africana
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
A web app developed using bootstrap
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
bootstrap4cssjavascriptbootstrap
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