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 (65)
android-database9
database8
bitbucket-pipelines8
sqlalchemy8
visualization8
graphene8
postgresql7
dashboard7
dockerfile7
relay7
python7
mysql7
slack7
visual-studio6
windows-phone6
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-gcloud-sdk
Dec 2017 - Dec 2024
A docker image with all dependencies required to build an image and deploy to Google cloud Platform.
Contributions:10 PRs, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 1 month
gcpdependenciesappenginebitbucket-pipelinesdocker-image
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