Phillip Kigenyi
Senior Software Engineer at Ebury
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Kigenyi is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, specializing in Python and Django while also working with Java and JavaScript to deliver scalable, high-availability systems across e-commerce, healthcare, and fintech. He has progressed from co-founding a product early in his career to technical leadership roles and senior engineering positions at companies like adidas, Glovo, and now Ebury, demonstrating both hands-on delivery and team mentorship. Phillip has a track record of building resilient architectures for large-scale production services and bringing startup agility to enterprise environments. Based in Spain and trained at Makerere University, he blends international experience with a pragmatic focus on operational reliability and rapid iteration. An understated strength is his history of mentoring and teaching—evident from roles at Andela and as a tech lead—helping teams scale their engineering practices as systems grow.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of science in Computer Science, Bachelor of science in Computer Science at Makerere University
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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google-app-engine
top-5%
gcloud
top-5%
Github Skills (30)
google-app-engine9
gcloud9
django-rest9
rest-framework8
resource-sharing8
bus8
headers7
nodejs6
django-rest-framework6
android6
infinispan6
rest6
rebuild6
jboss6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UNFPAInnovation/SafepalMobile2.0
May 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:1 release, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
UNFPAInnovation/GetInMobileRebuild
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
GetInMobileRebuild
Contributions:2 releases, 10 PRs, 139 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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