Naphlin Akena
Senior Software Engineer at Fiter
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Summary
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Top SchoolNaphlin Akena is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and customizing financial services platforms across East Africa and beyond. Currently at Fiter, he specializes in tailoring and deploying Apache Fineract solutions to enable financial inclusion for underserved communities, combining deep Java backend expertise with hands-on client-facing delivery. His background includes building SaaS core-banking systems at awamo and leading middleware integrations at Huawei for mobile money at MTN Uganda, giving him rare end-to-end experience from high-throughput telecom platforms to microfinance workflows. Naphlin is practiced at translating complex business requirements into maintainable extensions and automated test suites, and he contributes back to the Fineract community to strengthen open-source financial infrastructure. Based in Kampala, he brings a pragmatic, impact-driven approach to software that balances reliability, scalability, and social purpose.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
O level, O level at London College of St. LawrenceA level, Physics, Economics, Mathematics and Technical Drawing, A level, Physics, Economics, Mathematics and Technical Drawing at Kiira College ButikiBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at Makerere University
English, luo (uganda), Bantu, Kiswahili
Github Skills (26)
finance10
apache10
java10
fintech10
banking10
mifos8
web-application7
angular-framework7
data-warehouse5
javascript5
legend4
angular4
glamorous4
nextjs3
r-package3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FITER1/community-app-template
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
This is the default web application built on top of the Apache Fineract platform
Contributions:25 reviews, 28 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 5 months
javascriptweb-applicationapacheon-topjava
FITER1/web-app
Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
Mifos X Web App is the revamped version of the Mifos X Community App built on top of the Fineract Platform leveraging the popular Angular framework.
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 1 month
leveragingangularon-topapp-isfineract
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