Roger Taracha
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Yellow Card
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Taracha is a senior software engineering manager based in Nairobi with nine years of experience evolving from senior engineer to tech lead and manager, specializing in building and scaling fintech products for emerging markets. He has led end-to-end delivery of high-impact platforms—most recently architecting the Commercial Trading Portal and cross-border stablecoin-to-fiat flows at Yellow Card—while growing and structuring engineering teams to meet commercial goals. Roger blends hands-on mobile and backend engineering chops (Java/Kotlin, CI/CD, developer productivity) with product-minded leadership that improved onboarding, KYC throughput, and app stability, driving dramatic user and revenue growth. He has a track record of shaving developer build times, instituting predictable weekly releases, and shipping features that measurably reduce fraud and poor-quality submissions. Known for mentoring large cohorts of engineers and running cross-functional delivery, he pairs operational rigor with a focus on delightful, intuitive user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MIT MIT/NOKIA EEPROM Mobile Phone Application Programming Course., MIT MIT/NOKIA EEPROM Mobile Phone Application Programming Course. at eMobilis kenyaBachelor of Science (BSc) Telecommunication and Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Telecommunication and Information Technology at Kenyatta University
English, German, Swahili
Github Skills (60)
ruby10
automation10
android10
android-apps10
react-native9
ios9
maven-extension9
fastlane9
kotlin9
gradle9
mobile9
chrome-webdriver9
maven9
gradle-plugin8
android-app8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheDancerCodes/filamu-app
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 34 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
TheDancerCodes/retrofit-livedata-call-adapter
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
This is a simple Retrofit Adapter for Android LiveData that you can easily integrate in your applications.
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 14 PRs in 7 days
retrofitlivedataandroid-libraryandroidadapter
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