Paul Oguda - Head Of Tech at Zone01 Kisumu

Paul Oguda

Head Of Tech at Zone01 Kisumu

Kisumu, Kisumu County, Kenya

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Paul Oguda is a Head of Tech and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience leading teams and shipping web products across Ruby, Elixir, and full-stack JavaScript environments. Based in Kisumu, Kenya, he has driven product and automation work at IZEA, led Ruby teams for distributed clients, and now shapes technical strategy at Zone01 Kisumu. An active mentor and conference speaker, he has a track record of growing engineers through pair programming and community initiatives like BEAM Kenya and Rails Girls. He contributes open-source Elixir libraries (including an Africa's Talking wrapper) and blends urban planning analytical thinking with practical software delivery—an unusual cross-disciplinary perspective that informs his systems-thinking approach.

10 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering., Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering. at Free Code Camp

Varied, Varied at edX

MA. Planning, Spatial planning., MA. Planning, Spatial planning. at University of Nairobi

BA, Urban and Regional planning with IT, Second Class Honors, BA, Urban and Regional planning with IT, Second Class Honors at Maseno University

English, Swahili

Github Skills (35)

translation10

whenever10

sms10

airtime10

voice10

payment10

ussd10

computer-science10

infobip9

apl9

elixir9

strava9

api9

google-pay9

ruby-on-rails8

Programming languages (6)

TypeScriptCSSJavaScriptVueRubyElixir

Github contributions (5)

kamalogudah/auction_umbrella

Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

Umbrella App in Elixir

Contributions:77 commits, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month

umbrellaelixir

kamalogudah/kamalogudah.github.io

Mar 2020 - May 2022

Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months

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