Shalon N. Ngigi
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolShalon N. Ngigi is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience designing and delivering full-stack solutions, currently building secure, instrumented client-side features at Microsoft using TypeScript, React and React Native. She combines system and database design with a strong testing, logging and monitoring mindset—having implemented Kusto/Grafana observability and led on-call incident response. Her background spans startups and scale-ups where she launched a POS system from scratch, reduced CI costs by optimizing tests, and rebuilt authentication flows to close critical security gaps. Comfortable in Go and Python as well as JavaScript, she pairs hands-on implementation with architecture and ERD documentation to keep teams productive. A lifelong learner who documents technical growth on her blog, she also brings experience mentoring engineers and shipping products that moved users from MVP to live customers.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyMaster's degree, Information Technology, Software Engineering Major, Master's degree, Information Technology, Software Engineering Major at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
535reputation
22kreached
5answers
5questions
Github Skills (59)
npm-package9
nodejs7
npm7
react7
flask-api6
azure6
pullrequest6
fluentui6
sequelizejs6
api6
movie6
javascript6
stackoverflow6
githubactions6
rest-api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
njeri-ngigi/stackoverflow_api
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
stackoverflow-like api
Contributions:62 PRs, 79 pushes, 36 branches in 1 month
rest-apiapistackoverflowswagger
njeri-ngigi/hello_books_api
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:55 PRs, 127 pushes, 37 branches in 22 days
apipythonflask-apirestfulflask
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