Rabiu Yaya
Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolRabiu Yaya is a Principal Group Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience leading engineering teams and shaping payment and diagnostics platforms across fintech and cloud at Interswitch and Microsoft. He specializes in driving architecture refreshes, ecosystem integrations, and continuous delivery practices to keep business products evolving with frequent functional upgrades. At Interswitch he progressed from hands-on software engineer to group head of engineering for payment switching and processing, bringing deep domain expertise in mission-critical transaction systems. Now at Microsoft he coordinates cross-team efforts to build diagnostic solutions, blending product thinking with operational rigor. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, he pairs technical depth with process discipline to reduce cycle time and improve reliability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who converts complex requirements into auditable, scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo UniversityYellow Belt, Yellow Belt at https://goleansixsigma.com
Swahili, English, Yoruba
Github Skills (8)
dotnet8
csharp6
linux5
windows5
dotnet-core4
microsoft3
cloud-computing3
coreclr2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
techquest/paywith-quickteller-sample-wp8
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 1 month
techquest/verve-payment-sdk-android
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 day
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