Sammy Munywele
Senior Software Engineer at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Kenya
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Top SchoolSammy Munywele is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering mobile and backend systems, currently leading software engineering at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Kenya. He combines hands-on architecture, infrastructure provisioning and UX-focused mobile development to turn data science models into usable tools for farmers and researchers. His work spans decision-support platforms, USSD and mobile apps, API design for agricultural diagnostics, and integrations with banking and mobile-money systems. Sammy frequently consults with research institutions (including CIP and the University of Nairobi), bridging scientific domain knowledge with practical, user-centred solutions. Known on GitHub for a pragmatic “solve problems using CPU cycles” approach, he balances performance-conscious engineering with field-ready simplicity. He brings a track record of shipping resilient systems that embed research into real-world agricultural workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Computer Science at Daystar University
English, Kiswahili
Github Skills (44)
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android5
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
masgeek/instant-ussd
Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
Library to help you rapidly develop and easily maintain your USSD applications.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
ussd
masgeek/masgeek
Jul 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 55 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 4 months
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