Rufus Mbugua
Software Engineering Lead at Andela
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolRufus Mbugua is a software engineering lead based in Nairobi with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure systems and a proven track record across e-commerce, ed-tech, fintech, and pet care. He combines an MBA with data science and security certifications to bridge business strategy and technical delivery, leading microservices architecture, payment integrations, and automated data pipelines for Profit Acceleration Software at Focused.com. Rufus has driven product launches and platform optimizations for brands like True Botanicals, BestSelf and Kinship, and contributed to GitHub’s Secret Scanning and internal tooling while mentoring engineering teams. Known for championing documentation, agile practices, and automation, he often surfaces data-driven insights that reshape product decisions—an indicator of his blend of technical depth and commercial focus.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
AI Programming with Python Artificial Intelligence, AI Programming with Python Artificial Intelligence at UdacityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Strathmore Business School (SBS)O - Levels O-Levels, O - Levels O-Levels at Strathmore SchoolMIT Data Science and Machine Learning Program Data Science, MIT Data Science and Machine Learning Program Data Science at Great LearningCertified Information Security Manager Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Certified Information Security Manager Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Strathmore University
English, Swahili, Japanese
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Github Skills (33)
github-issues10
github10
bots9
bus8
nodejs8
vote8
javascript7
creator7
laravel-scout7
angularjs7
reservation-system7
api7
fuzzy-matching7
php6
capistrano6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RufusMbugua/lucas
Oct 2016 - Jun 2021
BOTs in NodeJS
Contributions:56 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 years 8 months
javascriptnodejsbotbots
TheDivide/pod
Mar 2017 - Jun 2019
Property Owners Democracy
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
apiownersreservation-systemdjangomanual
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