Summary
Rick Oburu is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Kenya with six years of experience building scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails, React, Node, and modern front-end tooling. He has shipped features across telehealth, agriculture, and charity platforms—delivering appointment scheduling, real-time chat, geolocation, inventory management, and donor transparency systems that improved user experience and operations. Comfortable in fast-paced, remote teams, he pairs back-end data work with intuitive UIs and has led white-label and analytics-driven initiatives. A former student mentor at Microverse, Rick brings both hands-on implementation skills and a knack for coaching junior developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code. He’s passionate about efficient architecture and continuous improvement, often focusing on real-time and data-driven features that aren’t obvious from job titles alone.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Microverse