Macharia Muguku
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Data, DevOps & AI)
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolMacharia Muguku is a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience building data-driven platforms, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling across AWS and Azure. He combines hands-on expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python and Go with deep data engineering skills—designing ELT pipelines, real-time streaming, and analytic warehouses using tools like Airbyte, DBT, Spark and ClickHouse. Equally fluent in DevOps, he authors IaC with Terraform/Ansible, runs Kubernetes workloads, and leads CI/CD and observability initiatives that cut costs and incident times significantly. He’s deployed self-hosted LLMs and integrated AI into production APIs, pairing prompt engineering with safety and monitoring practices. Based in Nairobi, Macharia is known for pragmatic automation (he’s written 15+ custom Airbyte connectors) and for turning messy data ecosystems into governed, high-performance platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, second class honors (Upper division), Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, second class honors (Upper division) at Chuka University
English, Swahili
Github Skills (121)
postgresql10
operation10
python10
data-warehouse10
airbyte10
databases10
data-ingestion10
etl10
duckdb10
data-pipeline10
lakes10
data-engineering10
elt10
pipeline10
data-integration10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
onaio/airbyte
Mar 2022 - Sep 2023
Airbyte is an open-source EL(T) platform that helps you replicate your data in your warehouses, lakes and databases.
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 6 months
data-sciencesqlbigquerybig-dataspark
machariamuguku/nodejs-mpesa-api
May 2019 - Dec 2019
NodeJs and Express M-PESA API. Documentation here
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 6 months
m-pesaapiexpressjsexpressapi-documentation
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