Mwendwa Reuben
Chief Technology Officer at Purple Elephant Ventures
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolMwendwa Reuben is a pragmatic technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with nine years of experience designing and scaling secure, transaction-heavy platforms across Kenya. He has repeatedly taken products from prototype to production—leading Tanda through multiple platform versions that now power a mobile money ecosystem serving 100k+ end users, 5k businesses and 50k agents. His strengths span enterprise architecture, payments integrations (including M-Pesa), PCI DSS readiness, RBAC/AML/fraud frameworks and DevOps pipelines that improved code quality and SLAs. He grows and mentors engineering teams while handling regulatory and risk documentation required for payments licensing. Currently based in Nairobi, he combines hands-on engineering chops (Go, Java) with strategic product roadmapping and operational monitoring that materially boosted customer retention. He is known for translating complex compliance and payment challenges into auditable, scalable systems that reduce costs and enable growth.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Egerton University
English
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Github Skills (14)
spring10
java10
spring-boot10
spring-security9
springframework8
pandas6
tensorflow-estimator6
tensorflow6
python6
numpy6
pointer6
port-scanning1
scanning1
scapy1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
StaffCommunication/Staff-Communication-System
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:71 commits, 67 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
mruv/libra-org.ke-wallet-poc
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:58 commits, 33 pushes in 18 days
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