Martin Kaburu
Senior Software Engineer at Toptal
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Kaburu is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native DevOps and backend solutions across AWS, GCP, and Azure. He excels at building IaC-driven, cost-optimized infrastructures and resilient CI/CD pipelines, having migrated services to cheaper runtimes and documented reusable Terraform modules that save ongoing operational expense. Comfortable coding in Python and Go, Martin has designed APIs, optimized PostgreSQL databases, and containerized systems with Docker and Kubernetes for high-traffic production environments. As a Toptal contractor and former engineer at teams like Lambda School and Andela, he blends independent ownership with cross-functional collaboration to ship measurable efficiency gains—one automation he built saved over an hour per student onboarding. A fast learner and lifelong student of new tech, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a tendency to champion developer enablement and clear infra documentation. Based in Nairobi, he brings global contractor experience and a track record of turning complex requirements into maintainable, auditable systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Alliance High School
Github Skills (53)
service-mesh10
api-management10
kubernetes10
docker10
circuit-breaker10
nomad10
security10
scheduling10
fault-injection10
consul10
go10
proxies10
observe10
resiliency10
golang10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MartinKaburu/StackOverflow-lite
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:169 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 1 month
flaskheroku-deploymentflask-apitravis-ci
MartinKaburu/ah-maps
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:32 commits in 1 month
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