Melvin atieno
Engineer Financial Services Systems Planning And Delivery at Safaricom PLC
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolMelvin Atieno is an engineering lead with eight years of hands-on experience designing and delivering resilient financial services systems, currently driving platform planning and availability at Safaricom PLC. He blends software engineering, capacity planning, and ITIL/Agile change-management to help critical payments infrastructure like M-Pesa achieve five-nines reliability. Comfortable from code to architecture, he has built and optimized production systems across startups and enterprise contexts, and mentors teams while improving internal processes. A perpetual learner with a background in nutrition and computer science, he brings an unusual mix of human-centered thinking and technical rigor to problem solving. His GitHub ethos—"the art is in knowing how to ask"—reflects a curiosity-driven approach to squeezing more value from machines and teams.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Open Source Society UniversityKenya Certificate of Secondary Education, Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education at Moi Girls School NairobiBachelors, Nutrition and Dietetics, Bachelors, Nutrition and Dietetics at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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Github Skills (22)
eloquent9
jekyll7
ssh6
illuminate-container6
php6
rails-api6
docker6
laravel6
remote-server5
github-pages5
api4
ruby-on-rails4
rails3
ruby3
provisioning2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Melvin1Atieno/zegetech.github.io
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
Zegetech Jekyll Website | http://zegetech.github.io | http://zegetech.com
Contributions:75 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 2 months
jekyll-websitejekyll
Melvin1Atieno/Fidget-Spinners
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:11 PRs, 53 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years
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