Manyanda Chitimbo
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolManyanda Chitimbo is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building backend and full-stack systems, currently driving engineering work at Red Hat. He brings deep expertise in cloud-native Java (Quarkus) and reactive Redis integrations, having contributed notable improvements to Quarkus’ Redis extension and quickstarts. Manyanda also works across GraphQL tooling—refactoring the graphql-cli and integrating Graphback to streamline developer workflows—and has practical experience with distributed systems via contributions to Apache Kafka. A consistent focus on reliability and developer experience shows through his work adding async support, connection pooling, and init commands, and he pairs that technical breadth with top-of-class academic credentials from USTHB and Pierre et Marie Curie.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Licence en Informatique, Ingénierie des systèmes d'informations et des logiciels, Major de promotion., Licence en Informatique, Ingénierie des systèmes d'informations et des logiciels, Major de promotion. at Université des Sciences et de la Technologie 'Houari Boumediène'Baccalauréat, Science, Classé deuxième meilleur étudiant national., Baccalauréat, Science, Classé deuxième meilleur étudiant national. at Kibaha High SchoolMaster en informatique, Science et technologie du logiciel, Mention Bien, Master en informatique, Science et technologie du logiciel, Mention Bien at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
French, English, Swahili
Github Skills (30)
redis10
kafka10
wpgraphql10
java10
javas10
wordpress-graphql10
quarkus10
graphql10
rest-api10
apollo10
reactive-programming10
vertx10
cli10
testing9
typescript9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
quarkusio/quarkus
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:552 reviews, 535 commits, 460 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Manyanda primarily contributed to the Quarkus Redis extension, adding and enhancing features related to Redis client functionality. They implemented a reactive Redis client, enabled the configuration of connection pools, and provided support for multiple Redis clients. Additionally, they fixed bugs to improve the stability of the extension, and incorporated the ability to dynamically create clients. The user's work focused on enhancing Redis integration with the Quarkus framework.
javaquarkuskubernetescloud-nativereactive
apache/kafka
Apr 2023 - Aug 2023
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 16 PRs, 97 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Manyanda primarily contributed to fixing typos and minor code issues within the Apache Kafka project. Their work involved correcting errors in Java code across multiple modules, including metadata, raft, and client components. Additionally, the user addressed a typo in a Scala file. They also updated dependencies, specifically bumping the "requests" python package version used in tests. These commits indicate a focus on code quality, bug fixes, and dependency management within the Kafka codebase.
apache-kafkascalakafkajavastreaming
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