Mbuyu Makayi
Team Lead API Team at Conduit
Lusaka Province, Zambia
Summary
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Top SchoolMbuyu Makayi is a seasoned software engineer and API team lead with a decade of experience building compliant, user-focused payments infrastructure across fintechs like Conduit, Flutterwave, and Chipper Cash. He combines hands-on engineering and technical leadership—driving integrations, identity, and growth platform initiatives that improved UX and compliance for millions of users and earned him an Engineering Excellence Award. Based in Lusaka, he founded Developer Circle Lusaka, growing a 1,000+ developer community and earning Facebook Africa’s “Icon of Change” recognition, reflecting his commitment to developer empowerment. Comfortable across backend integrations, cloud-native APIs, and platform reliability, Mbuyu brings a pragmatic focus on auditable, scalable money-movement systems that balance compliance with product velocity.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of information technology, Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of information technology at The Copperbelt University
English
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Github Skills (24)
react8
expressjs8
mongodb6
medium6
aggregation-framework6
android-studio6
mongodb-query6
android6
solve6
graphql5
javascript4
meteor4
draft-js3
tuple2
structures2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
makayi/express-graphql-server
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
This is a pet project I have been working on to understand how GraphQL works with out using Apollo GraphQL just vanilla GraphQL with Express JS.
Contributions:47 commits, 28 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 month
apollographqlexpressjsgraphql
makayi/makayi
Jul 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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