Pharis Kahama
Senior Software Engineer at Ona systems
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolPharis Kahama is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with about eight years of experience building scalable web applications and front-end systems using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, PHP/Laravel and WordPress. He excels at turning complex UX requirements into performant features—authoring data grouping algorithms, a query builder, grid-based layouts, and a JSON-driven configuration system that made Akuko.io LLM-ready. At Ona/Ona Systems he led performance work that cut bundle sizes and page load times, refactored dozens of core components to reduce technical debt, and mentored junior engineers to raise code quality. He also has hands-on DevOps experience migrating projects to Kubernetes and improving CI/CD and test coverage. Pragmatic and product-focused, Pharis blends design-minded front-end craft with backend and deployment fluency to ship reliable, user-centered software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Business Information Technology at Mount kenya universityDiploma in Game Design And Mobile Application Development, Diploma in Game Design And Mobile Application Development, Diploma in Game Design And Mobile Application Development, Diploma in Game Design And Mobile Application Development at Gesci
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (49)
surveillance10
health10
marker10
react10
keycloak9
jsinterop9
typescript9
django8
python8
react-components8
ui-components8
esri-javascript-api8
mapbox-gl8
mapbox-gl-js8
antd7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
onaio/ingc-mozambique-data
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
Shared data and layers for Cyclone Idai
Contributions:8 reviews, 12 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years
cyclonelayers
kahummer/Project_Monitoring_county
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
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