Samuel Kihika
Software Engineer - Elixir at Value Chain Factory
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolSamuel Kihika is a results-driven Software Engineer specializing in Elixir with nine years of experience building scalable payment and ERP solutions from Nairobi. He currently develops payment systems at Value Chain Factory and previously led end-to-end MVP and payment platform work—including M-PESA Daraja integrations, CI/CD with CircleCI, and cloud server management—at Nextus Tech. His background in technical product support at Ezen involved onboarding hundreds of users, integrating multiple banks and gateways, and maintaining a 9/10 customer satisfaction score. Comfortable across backend Elixir services and JavaScript front-ends, he focuses on shipping production-ready code that delivers immediate business value. Known for quietly scaling systems and teams, he also mentors peers and drives practical processes like code review and automated deployments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First Class Honors, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First Class Honors at Chuka University
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Github Skills (12)
nuxt6
linux6
javascript6
vue6
phpmyadmin6
react-native6
r6
apt6
mysql6
ubuntu6
open-source5
react3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kihikasamuel/payment-integration
Jan 2022 - Jun 2024
A simple payment integration with m-pesa payment gateway built with express
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
m-pesaapipayment-servicepayment-methodsexpress
kihikasamuel/next-task
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 41 pushes in 6 months
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