Newton Bii
Senior Software Engineering Manager (SRE) at Safaricom PLC
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolNewton Bii is a Senior Software Engineering Manager (SRE) based in Nairobi with eight years of experience building and migrating large-scale fintech platforms to cloud-native microservices. At Safaricom he has led M-PESA engineering teams, driving CI/CD automation and delivering systems that handle millions of users and transactions. He combines hands-on SRE practices with people leadership—recruiting, mentoring, and scaling high-performing engineering teams. Newton pairs a technical master's in Computing and Information Systems with a non-traditional background in agronomy, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to problem solving. Known for a can-do mindset (“Nothing is impossible”), he focuses on reliability, operational excellence, and measurable business impact. Colleagues value his ability to translate legacy constraints into modern, observable, and automatable platforms.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Computer Software Engineering, Certificate Computer Software Engineering at Moringa SchoolMaster's degree Computing and Information Systems, Master's degree Computing and Information Systems at Strathmore UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Agronomy and Crop Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Agronomy and Crop Science at University of Nairobi
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Github Skills (11)
netflix6
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youtube5
django5
instagram5
heroku5
twitter4
python4
javascript3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NewtonBii/instagram_clone
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
This repo contains source code for my instagram clone. You can view it live on heroku
Contributions:60 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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NewtonBii/farm-to-pocket
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
This application allows users to post product information and in return receive contact information of matched users.
Contributions:57 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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