Raphael Gachuhi
Sr. Software Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Gachuhi is a senior software engineer with 10+ years building web applications for telecom OSS and collaboration platforms, currently contributing at Carnegie Mellon University. He combines deep Java expertise—from JEE, Spring, Hibernate and JSF to rare Java Swing component architecture mastery—with hands-on design, coding and testing experience. Raphael has led and mentored teams while delivering complex modules for sales force automation, provisioning, inventory and billing systems. Equally comfortable with backend enterprise stacks and rich desktop UIs, he brings a pragmatic focus on evolving user needs into maintainable, production-ready features. Notably, his background in avionics and agriculture education gives him a practical, systems-oriented perspective that informs robust engineering decisions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Aga Khan High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Franklin UniversityDiploma, Avionics, Diploma, Avionics at Trans-Eastern Aviation CollegeAssociate, Computer Science, Associate, Computer Science at Hocking CollegeDiploma, Agriculture Education, Diploma, Agriculture Education at Egerton University
English, Swahili
Github Skills (27)
odk10
silverstripe10
itil10
ansible-collections10
digest8
editing7
java-server6
react5
frontend5
development-environment5
docker-compose5
javascript5
open-source4
java4
evaluator4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Simon-Initiative/authoring-dev
Feb 2017 - Apr 2021
Course Authoring Development Environment - Dockerized development dependencies
Contributions:1 review, 24 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 2 months
dependenciesdockerauthoringdocker-composedevelopment-environment
Simon-Initiative/authoring-eval
May 2019 - Feb 2024
Course Authoring Evaluator - Sandboxed expression evaluator for templated question creation
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 9 months
questiontemplatedauthoringexpression-evaluatorsandboxed
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