Summary
Mark Kamau is a versatile software engineer with 10 years’ experience building Android apps in Java/Kotlin and backend systems in Node.js, currently contributing to product development at Patrium Health. He has delivered end-to-end customer engagement platforms and digital call centers, integrating telephony and messaging APIs (Africa's Talking, Twilio, Meta) and deploying microservices with Redis on Kubernetes for high availability. Previously at Safaricom he helped scale USSD services used by millions, and earlier roles span IoT backends, SACCO fintech apps, and money-lending platforms—showing a strong blend of mobile, backend, and cloud expertise. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs hands-on coding with cloud infrastructure management to ship reliable, production-grade systems. Based in Nairobi, he brings regional product knowledge of African payment and communications ecosystems that reduces integration friction for local services.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Informatics and Computer Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science in Informatics and Computer Science, Information Technology at Strathmore University
English, Swahili