Laban Mwangi
Software Engineering Manager at Laheri Kenya
Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolLaban Mwangi is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager based in Nairobi with 20 years of experience building resilient telecom, cloud and security-focused systems. He has led engineering teams to deliver production fintech and telco products—such as the T-Kash Telkom app and MPESA-integrated microservices—while also steering incident recovery efforts that restored tens of terabytes and hundreds of VMs after a severe breach. His background spans hands-on Unix/EC2 operations at scale (Amazon EC2), RPKI and critical registry services at AfriNIC, and pragmatic microservices architecture for SMS, USSD and web front ends. An operator who still dives into code, he contributes to open-source security tooling (notably refactoring parts of the Greenbone/OpenVAS scanner) and blends networking, telecom protocols and cloud infra to solve high-stakes availability and integration challenges.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at University of Nairobi
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Github Skills (22)
scanner10
hsqldb10
c1110
c1710
openvas10
vulnerability-management9
spring9
vulnerability-detection9
junit9
vulnerability-assessment9
obfuscation9
csv6
vim6
copy-protection6
python6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
greenbone/openvas-scanner
Mar 2006 - Feb 2008
This repository contains the scanner component for Greenbone Community Edition.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Laban primarily worked on refactoring and renaming components related to the "nessus" scanner to "openvas" throughout the codebase. This involved string replacements, file renames, and updates to configuration and build files to reflect the new naming conventions. Their changes also included updating references to external tools and utilities like "nessus-fetch," "nessus-mkcert," and core components, ensuring the project's continued functionality after the renaming effort.
scanneropenvascommunity-editionvulnerability-managementgreenbone
labeneator/flask-cavage
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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