Njogu Mbau
Research Associate
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolNjogu Mbau is a research-focused software and ML engineer with 12 years of experience applying data-driven solutions to development and policy challenges across international organizations and startups. With an MBA and a BSc in Computer Science plus executive training from MIT, he blends technical depth—DevOps, software architecture, and applied machine learning—with programmatic experience at the World Bank and behavioral-economics research at Busara. Currently a Research Associate at the oTree Open Source Research Foundation, Njogu has a track record of shipping production systems, leading data teams, and consulting on impact evaluations and digital delivery. He brings a pragmatic mix of research rigour and product-minded engineering, often working at the intersection of experiment platforms, analytics, and deployment automation. Based in Nairobi, he pairs global development experience with hands-on engineering instincts honed across freelance, startup, and institutional roles.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mater of Business Administration (MBA), Mater of Business Administration (MBA) at Strathmore UniversityBSc Computer Science, Honors, BSc Computer Science, Honors at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
English, Kiswahili
Github Skills (19)
dead-letter5
python5
multiplayer5
letter4
django4
bus3
slack-bot3
pagerduty2
rails1
chatops1
ruby1
controller1
datadog1
ruby-on-rails1
discovery1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
de-jure-org/beiwe-backend
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Beiwe is a smartphone-based digital phenotyping research platform. This is the Beiwe backend code
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
beiwesmartphonephenotypingbackendresearch-platform
benarito/oTree
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 11 months
online-platformeconomics-experimentscheneconomicseth
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