Stellamaris Njage
Co-founder & Team Lead at Favour Giants
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolStellamaris Njage is a results-driven software leader and co-founder with a decade of experience blending hands-on Ruby on Rails engineering and project management. She has led cross-functional teams using Agile, Kanban, and Scrum to deliver customer-focused products, most recently stepping into co-founder and team lead roles while completing a Master’s in Project Management. Her background includes production-grade Rails work at Andela and contributions to Public Lab’s widely used plots2 platform, where she implemented backend features, notifications, and tests. Comfortable shipping code and coordinating stakeholders, she pairs technical depth in backend systems with strong client relationship and resource management skills. Notably, she practices daily incremental learning—“one line of code a day”—which fuels steady improvement and practical mentorship across teams. Based in Nairobi, she brings entrepreneurial grit and measurable delivery outcomes across startups and open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampBachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Maseno UniversityUniversity of Pretoria
English, Kiswahili
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
test-unit10
testing10
wikipedia9
collaboration7
javascript5
timers4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 commits, 22 PRs, 104 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Stellamaris primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Rails application. Their commits include bug fixes, feature implementations (like wiki page and follower notifications), and test additions. They interacted with various models, controllers, and views, demonstrating proficiency in Ruby on Rails, as well as database interactions. Code changes also show the user working on the notification system and email views.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
StlMaris123/LocalSupport
Mar 2017 - May 2019
A directory of local support services and volunteer opportunities
Contributions:48 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 2 months
opportunitiesphprubyvolunteer-opportunitiesvolunteer
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