Nimrod Maina
Senior Data Engineer
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolNimrod Maina is a Senior Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable data platforms and payment/fintech systems across East Africa. He has led end-to-end projects—rolling out core banking v2.0, migrating large datasets, and implementing real-time ETL frameworks and Kafka administration—to reduce costs and remove data bottlenecks for BI teams. Comfortable across PHP, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript and relational databases, he combines software architecture training from Strathmore University with hands-on data engineering at Moniepoint and Kyosk. Notably, he cut BigQuery spend by 50% through usage guidelines and engineered data infrastructure that supported millions of users in production. A pragmatic problem-solver who enjoys tackling new technical challenges, Nimrod balances operational excellence with regulatory and security-conscious design in fintech contexts.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor's of business information technology, Information Technology, bachelor's of business information technology, Information Technology at Strathmore University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
payment-gateway10
streaming10
batch10
mpesa10
java10
beam9
big-data9
payment-integration9
sql9
golang9
python9
streaming-data9
laravel8
flask8
apache-beam8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NimzyMaina/flask_kafka
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Flask Kafka consumer full implementation example. Ideal for a microservices architecture.
Contributions:3 releases, 4 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
flaskkafka-consumermicroserviceskafkapython
NimzyMaina/nuxtDt
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Making NuxtJs & jQuery Datatables Play Nice
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 months
jquery-datatablesnuxtdatatables-librarydotnet-corejquery
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