Mitchel Kelonye
Frontend Lead at Aurory
Kenya
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Top SchoolMitchel Kelonye is a Frontend Lead with six years of engineering experience building polished, user-focused web applications across fintech, productivity, and crypto industries. He leads frontend teams and architects interfaces using Ember.js, HTML and modern JavaScript while also bringing backend fluency in Python, Node.js and Go. His work includes shipping UX improvements to notable open-source projects like Gitcoin—adding dark mode, refined typography and theme controls—to enhance accessibility and user experience. Mitchel has repeatedly led frontend efforts for startups and scale-stage companies (Aurory, Synthetix, Toggl Plan, Xeepa), including payment solutions tailored for African markets. Based in Kenya, he combines hands-on coding with team leadership and a practical focus on shipping maintainable, design-driven interfaces. Collected experience as a technical director and remote engineer gives him a knack for bridging product, engineering and operational constraints.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at Friends School KamusingaBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Second Upper, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Second Upper at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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Github Skills (16)
html10
theme-development10
css10
javascript10
ui-design9
emberjs6
unit-testing6
docker6
google-app-engine6
webapp6
python6
django6
open-source3
react3
ethereum3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gitcoinco/web
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Grow Open Source
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mitchel primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Gitcoin web application. Their work involved implementing a dark mode theme, updating the theme switcher, and refining typography and input styles. The user modified JavaScript, CSS, and HTML files to achieve these visual and interactive changes. These updates enhanced the user interface and improved the overall user experience of the application.
ethereumbountiesgitcoinethgrow
bluzelle/blzgo
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Go client library for Bluzelle Service
Contributions:87 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 6 months
golangclient-librarygo-client
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