Summary
Odanga Ochieng is a Nairobi-based lead developer and founder with nine years of experience building cross-platform mobile and web applications using React, React Native, Firebase and Python. He founded Jobo App to connect blue-collar professionals with clients across Kenya, leading product development, team management and trust-building for a location-based service used to streamline everyday services. Trained in computer science at KAIST and fluent in English, Korean and Kiswahili, he pairs deep technical skills with rare linguistic and cultural fluency—having lived in South Korea and studied Korean language and literature to TOPIK Level 4. His background ranges from delivery and logistics platforms to government data work and language instruction, reflecting both product-focused engineering and operational adaptability. Known for turning user needs into fast, reliable mobile experiences, he blends developer pragmatism with an educator’s attention to clarity and cultural nuance.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, A, High School, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, A at Strathmore School
Korean Language and Literature, TOPIK Level 4, Korean Language and Literature, TOPIK Level 4 at Kyung Hee University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korean, English, Swahili