Sam Wanekeya
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Kakbima
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolSam Wanekeya is a Nairobi-based technology leader and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building scalable, compliance-minded SaaS platforms for HR and insurance. As Co-Founder and CTO of Hafinen he architected a modular, multi-tenant HR/payroll platform that delivered an MVP in under six months and achieved <50ms API responses with auto-scaled infrastructure and payroll automation. Concurrently as CEO of Kakbima he scaled an insurance operating system used by 80+ partners and processed millions in premiums while driving productization, embedded distribution, and regulatory alignment across African markets. He blends hands-on full-stack and DevOps engineering with product and commercial instincts, leading teams to ship analytics-driven, user-focused workflows. Sam’s work shows a consistent pattern of turning complex domain rules (payroll, tax, insurance compliance) into configurable, low-code solutions that compress time-to-market. Outside the job title he jokes he’d change the world if someone handed him the source—an engineer’s humility that underscores his focus on practical, high-impact delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science Applied Computer Technology (Bsc. APT), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Applied Computer Technology (Bsc. APT), Computer Software Engineering at United States International University
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Github contributions (5)
SamWanekeya/dockerizing-node-js-with-nginx-and-self-signed-ssl-certificate
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A simple example of a dockerized Node.js basic app with Nginx and self signed SSL certificate
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
nginxsslnode-jssigneddocker
SamWanekeya/dockerizing-react-js-with-nginx-and-self-signed-ssl-certificate
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
A simple example of a dockerized default create React app with Nginx and self signed SSL certificate
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 45 PRs in 2 years 9 months
nginxcreate-reactreactjsdockerizedjavascript
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