Sam Kariu
Senior Software Engineer at Canary Technologies
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolSam Kariu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with 12 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems for fintech and hospitality platforms. He has led end-to-end implementations—from architecting a payments system adopted by 1,000+ hotels to shipping APIs that drove initial revenue adoption—and delivered measurable business impact like halving booking times and cutting cloud costs by 70%. Experienced in scaling Node.js microservices, NoSQL migrations, and real-time order pipelines, Sam consistently maintains five‑nines uptime and strong on‑call SLAs. He pairs hands-on coding with team leadership and sprint planning, having managed cross-functional engineering efforts and improved productivity while supporting large customer bases. A pragmatic problem-solver, he also built identity verification and log-scrubbing solutions that reduced fraud and ensured GDPR compliance, showing a focus on reliability, security, and operational excellence.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at University of NairobiMang'u High School
English, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
google-app-engine6
google-drive-api6
flask-sqlalchemy4
wtforms4
frontend3
python3
data-structures3
flask3
authentication3
bootstrap3
sqlalchemy3
algorithms2
machine-learning1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
samkariu/nairobi-routes
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
samkariu/RefuniteNotificationApp
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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