Seth Kigen
Director Of Engineering at Angaza
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolSeth Kigen is a Nairobi-based engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling software across legacy desktop, backend services, web, and mobile platforms. Currently Director of Engineering at Angaza after progressing from Software Engineering Manager, he combines hands-on architecture with people leadership to deliver reliable payments and supply-chain systems. His background includes founding and directing technical strategy for fintech startup PesaPrint and early-stage product work at Twiga Foods, giving him strong product-to-production instincts. Seth holds an MSc in Telecommunication Innovation and Development and a B.Sc. in Computer Science, blending academic insight with practical delivery. He is comfortable recruiting and growing engineering teams, and often drives cross-functional initiatives that translate complex domain requirements into pragmatic technical roadmaps. A pragmatic problem-solver, he brings entrepreneurial grit from multiple co-founder roles to enterprise-scale engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Telecommunication Innovation and Development (MSc. TID), Msc Telecommunication Innovation and Development (MSc. TID) at Strathmore UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer science at Makerere University
Swahili, English
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Github Skills (58)
bitbucket-pipelines10
apk10
graphene-sqlalchemy9
graphene9
sqlalchemy9
slack9
android-database9
android9
gcloud8
bitbucket8
dockerfile8
google8
docker-image7
google-cloud-platform7
visualization7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kigen/alpine-redis-cluster
May 2018 - Dec 2024
Redis cluster ready image for kubernetes deployments.
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
kigen/alpine-android-sdk
Jan 2018 - Dec 2024
Alpine Linux based android SDK Docker Image.
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
alpine-linuxandroid-sdkdocker-imagealpineandroid
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