Lincoln Simba
Software Engineer at Ona Data
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolLincoln Simba is a software and data engineer with 11 years' experience building cloud-native health and data solutions from end-to-end, combining full-stack web development with data engineering, warehousing, and AI. He has led production deployments and performance optimizations for FHIR-compliant healthcare systems, built AI-powered tools like voice transcription and RAG-based patient summarization, and automated FHIR-native app authoring to accelerate clinical app configuration. Comfortable across Python, Java, Kubernetes, Apache Beam/NiFi, and deployment automation, he frequently bridges engineering and product to deliver tangible time savings for frontline health workers. Trained at the University of Nairobi and UiS in data science and computer science, he blends rigorous academic grounding with practical, real-world impact in low-resource settings. An unassuming but persistent innovator, he pairs hands-on coding with pipeline architecture to turn messy health data into actionable insights.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at University of Stavanger (UiS)K.C.S.E, K.C.S.E at Maseno SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Nairobi
English, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (84)
python10
data-entry10
kotlin-android10
android-library10
kotlin10
risk-assessment9
flask9
kotlin-library9
java9
voting9
android9
scale8
parquet8
legaltech8
react8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lincmba/pyxform
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
A Python package to create XForms for ODK Collect.
Contributions:30 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
collectpythonxformspython-packageodk
lincmba/ml-scikit
May 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
pythonpredictiondata-sciencemachine-learningscikit
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