Summary
Kim Kiogora is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience designing and running digital payments and lending platforms, currently building a production Elixir/Phoenix payments stack. He blends hands-on engineering with product leadership, having led engineering teams, roadmaps, hiring and go-to-market efforts across fintech and mobile commerce. Skilled in DevSecOps, Kim architects cloud infrastructure using tools like Packer and Terraform to harden and automate deployments. His background spans end-to-end payment gateway design, integrations and incident RCA from roles at Cellulant, Roamtech and FarmDrive, reflecting deep domain expertise in payments. Outside work he contributes code and projects on GitHub with a particular interest in Python and Elixir, and he consults on product strategy and technical delivery for startups. Based in Nairobi, he pairs practical, production-first engineering with a strong focus on security and operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at Daystar University
IMIS, Information Technology, IMIS, Information Technology at KCA University
English, Swahili