Raphael Karanja
Senior Software Engineer at Lelapa AI
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolRaphael Karanja is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with 11 years of experience building web and mobile applications that prioritize UI and user experience. He has shipped production systems across startups and enterprises, working with modern stacks including React, Vue, Node, Next.js, GraphQL, Laravel and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), and has recent experience in AI-focused product work at Lelapa AI. Raphael has led and mentored engineering teams, owned testing and CI/CD processes, and built testnet and microservice UIs that improve customer workflows. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and mobile, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a design-minded focus on usability—an approach shaped by teaching web development and guiding student projects early in his career.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
KCSE, KCSE at Mawingo High SchoolBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Technical University of Mombasa
English, Swahili, Sign languages
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Github Skills (67)
flexbox10
react-native10
navigator9
react-native-navigation8
react8
socket7
firebase7
push-notifications7
socket-io7
storage7
crashlytics7
android7
firestore7
redux7
receipt-validation6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NdauwaRafael/online_noticeboard
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
An online noticeboard application using Django Python, Django Rest Frameworks, React, Redux
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
react-frameworksreactpythondjango-rest-frameworkdjango
NdauwaRafael/event_deadline
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
A mobile application build with react native, redux and firebase displaying timer for different events
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 15 days
eventsreactmobile-applicationreact-nativemobile-development
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