Michael Kibet
Full Stack Engineer II - Contract at Apicbase
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kibet is a Full Stack Engineer II with nine years of experience building resilient web and fintech systems from Nairobi, Kenya. He combines frontend, backend, and DevOps skills to deliver integrations and automation—most recently architecting supplier/POS integrations and an HR time-cost framework at Apicbase that ties payroll to real-time sales. His background in fintech includes designing secure notification microservices, OAuth/JWT APIs, and scaling debt settlement throughput from 180 to 480 jobs per hour. At SOKO he improved supply chain reliability by implementing a barcode-driven inventory and production workflow that respected privacy-by-design. An active contributor to the Meteor project, he has hands-on experience improving password reset robustness in a widely used JavaScript platform, reflecting a focus on practical security and usability.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Nairobi
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
nodejs10
meteor10
testing9
reactive-programming9
mongodb7
mongodb-database7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
meteor/meteor
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `accounts-password` package within the Meteor framework. Their work involved adding and modifying features related to password management, specifically around the `forgotPassword` functionality. This included adding options to control error message detail, adjusting behavior based on environment (production/development), and fixing related test cases to align with the new features. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the robustness and usability of the password reset process.
app-platformmeteorjavascriptframeworktoolkit
mikekibz59/react-crypto-visualization
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
A cryptocurrency visualization tool using reactjs
Contributions:43 commits, 36 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reactlodashjavascriptstyled-componentscryptocurrency
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