Ruth Waithera
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolRuth Waithera is a Software Engineer II based in Nairobi with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput services and a 9-year professional track record that includes 4+ years at Microsoft. She leads development for people-data services that support over 1M enterprise customers and handle tens of thousands of requests per second, while ensuring SLA/SLO, compliance, and privacy requirements. Ruth helped found and rapidly prototype PeopleResolution services, shipping a functional system within six months and designing robust recovery and undo mechanics for profile unification. She mentors engineers, drives cross-team prioritization, and uses usage analytics to increase adoption and customer impact. An active full‑stack open-source contributor, she improved the Notes Preview UX and routing in the popular publiclab/plots2 Rails project—demonstrating a blend of backend systems thinking and user-facing polish.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Kenyatta University
Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
erb10
html10
ruby-on-rails10
css9
collaboration9
minitest8
unit-test8
user-interface8
rspec8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:266 reviews, 3 commits, 119 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ruth significantly contributed to the `publiclab/plots2` repository by implementing and refining the "Notes Preview" feature, a crucial functionality within the collaborative knowledge-exchange platform. Their work involved modifying and creating new views, controllers, and Javascript code to enable preview functionality, including the integration of image and location data. Additionally, the user addressed styling, UI adjustments, and performed testing while also refactoring existing components. Furthermore, they added a new route for all posts and the design of the "all posts" page.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
RuthNjeri/alexandria
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Ecommerce site created using Ruby on Rails from the Ruby Web APIs
Contributions:22 commits, 14 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsrails-apiecommercerailsasciidoctor
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