Peter Odeny
Lead Engineer at TolaData
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolPeter Odeny is a Lead Engineer with a decade of full-stack experience building and managing teams for both nonprofit and commercial products, currently leading core engineering at TolaData from Nairobi. He combines strong backend expertise in Python/Django and microservices with frontend proficiency in Angular/React and modern CSS, and is comfortable across Postgres, MongoDB and data-pipeline tools like Airflow and NiFi. Peter has a track record of shipping enterprise and humanitarian-focused platforms at Humanitec, Mercy Corps and OpenBuild, and he pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership and developer training. A data-science enthusiast, he routinely builds dashboards and reporting pipelines (Superset, Metabase) that turn operational data into actionable program insights. Notably, he bridges open-source advocacy and humanitarian impact, bringing product-minded engineering to mission-driven organizations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education at Sawagongo High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
English, Swahili, luo (kenya and tanzania)
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Github Skills (49)
docker10
tinyurl10
project-management10
data-services10
django10
django-rest-framework10
visualization9
python9
visualizations9
merge6
vue-application6
component-based4
visualize4
gateway4
backend4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
toladata/TolaProfile
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch, 15 issues in 2 months
hikaya-io/activity
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Making it easier for nonprofits to manage their project activities and indicators. Interested in contributing? Check out our open issues: https://tinyurl.com/activity-issues
Contributions:4 releases, 512 commits, 206 PRs in 1 year 7 months
kpi-indicatorict4dpythonhumanitariandjango-rest-framework
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