Linda Kamau
Founder & Executive Director at AkiraChix
Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolLinda Kamau is a Kenyan founder and technical leader with 16 years of experience building back-end systems and growing women-focused tech initiatives. As Founder and Executive Director of AkiraChix and former Lead Developer for Ushahidi, she combines hands-on full-stack development (notably contributing to Ushahidi’s mapping and API platforms) with nonprofit leadership that expands access to ICT training for young women. She holds executive training from Stanford GSB and a BS in Business Information Technology, and has translated that mix of product, pedagogy, and code into scalable programs and robust APIs. Known for shipping pragmatic backend fixes and features—schema upgrades, custom forms, and user APIs—she bridges community impact and production engineering.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Program, Social Entreprenuership, Executive Program, Social Entreprenuership at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science (BS), Business Information Technology, 3.92, Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Information Technology, 3.92 at Universiti Teknologi Kreatif Limkokwing
Github Skills (18)
database-migrations10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
php10
api10
database-migration10
mysql9
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
object-mapping9
orm9
data-mapping9
rest-api9
database-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web
Jan 2010 - Nov 2014
Ushahidi v2. A platform that allows information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, allowing anyone to submit information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:201 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:The user, Linda Kamau, primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Ushahidi web platform. Her contributions included fixing bugs, such as making the "Cancel" button function correctly and resolving a syntax error in the feed model. Additionally, she added features such as schema upgrade scripts and support for custom forms. She made improvements to the admin interface for managing forms and reports.
pythonphonemobile-phoneweb-formtext-messaging
ushahidi/platform
May 2013 - Aug 2017
Ushahidi Platform API version 3+
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Linda primarily contributed to the development of the Ushahidi Platform API, focusing on implementing and modifying API endpoints for sets and users. Their work included creating controllers, adding tests and fixtures, and modifying database migrations to include foreign key constraints. They also developed a user API for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting users. The user demonstrated proficiency in PHP and the Ushahidi framework.
apiapi-platformapi-versionushahidi
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