Peter Kahenya
Sr. Backend Engineer - Service Implementation
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolPeter Kahenya is a senior backend engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable platforms, data pipelines, and microservices across SaaS, non-profit, and enterprise environments. He has led engineering for products serving 16K+ monthly users and delivered automation and reporting systems that cut execution time by over 50%. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, cloud infrastructure and modern AI workflows (RAG, agentic systems, fine-tuning), he focuses on shipping reliable, test-driven services with developer-friendly APIs and documentation. At Humentum he built end-to-end ETL and dashboarding pipelines used by 50+ org leaders and funders, and he continues to design modular, production-ready APIs in his current role at Turing. Based in Nairobi, Peter combines hands-on implementation with stakeholder-facing product thinking, often translating compliance and operational needs into automated technical solutions. An early contributor to health data integration tools (Afya360), he brings a pragmatic, impact-oriented approach to engineering.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Nairobi
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Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PeterKahenya/My-Tutor
Dec 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
PeterKahenya/signreader
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
This is an app that reads kenya sign language
Contributions:24 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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