Meshak Otieno
Senior Software Engineer at MedicinaChain
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolMeshak Otieno is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with 4 years of experience building high-performance, secure full-stack applications across healthcare, fintech, and SaaS. He combines modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontends (React, Next/Remix) with robust Node/Nest backends, DevOps pipelines, and production ML deployments to deliver measurable improvements like 50% faster load times and reduced misdiagnosis via immutable medical records. At MedicinaChain he led blockchain-integrated HMS front-end architecture and real-time features, and at TuzaPay contributed to sub-100ms trading systems—demonstrating both low-latency engineering and security-first design. He also has hands-on ML experience from IBM Research Africa, shipping FastAPI model endpoints and training Random Forest and U-Net models for real-world problems. Known for system migrations, developer-experience improvements, and shipping end-to-end SaaS projects, Meshak pairs pragmatic engineering with a continual curiosity for new tools and scalable patterns.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Kirinyaga UniversityHigh School Diploma African Studies, High School Diploma African Studies at Our Lady of Fatima secondary
English, Swahili
Github Skills (2)
php1
laravel1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mesho254/mesho254
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
mesho254/blog-totti
Aug 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
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