Serah Kiburu
Senior Developer Advocate
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSerah Kiburu is a Senior Developer Advocate at Spotify with 12 years of experience bridging developer ecosystems, open data, and community-led engineering. She builds strategic Developer Relations programs, designs developer experiences for Spotify’s APIs and SDKs, and measures impact to iterate on developer portals and content. Previously she led community development at The Carpentries and Open Knowledge, where she combined technical writing, curriculum design, and community strategy to grow global open-science and open-source participation. Serah is comfortable shipping code and maintaining documentation—her contributions to the Software Carpentry website show attention to content architecture and pragmatic site maintenance. Based in Sweden, she blends product-minded advocacy with grassroots community building and a clear commitment to openness and reproducible research. Colleagues rely on her to translate developer feedback into product improvements and to amplify partner work across technical communities.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Swahili, English
Github Skills (8)
content-management-system10
maintenance10
content-management10
jekyll10
documentation10
yaml9
github-pages9
html8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
swcarpentry/website
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Software Carpentry website
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:106 commits, 70 PRs, 89 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Serah primarily focused on maintaining and updating the website's content and documentation. Their contributions involve fixing broken links in the workshops and lessons pages, renaming the 'category' element to 'tags' in the YAML header, and adding tag navigation. The user also cleaned up the authors' sections and removed institution names from tags, demonstrating an understanding of content organization and site maintenance.
liquidcarpentryjekyllsoftware-carpentry
CodeForAfrica/afriLEAKS-website
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:68 commits in 21 days
anonymouslyorganisationsdjangojavascriptnodejs
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