Stephen Araka
Mobile Engineer II at Jumba
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Araka is a mobile-first software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience and a focused three-year track record building cross-platform React Native apps and cloud-native frontends. Currently a Mobile Engineer II at Jumba, he helps power a logistics SaaS that streamlines ordering and delivery in Africa’s construction supply chain. His background includes frontend work at Jumia and launching cranecloud.io, giving him strong product-to-production experience across web, mobile, and DevOps. A Carnegie Mellon IT graduate and former teaching assistant, he blends practical engineering with a knack for translating architectural trade-offs into classroom-ready explanations. Colleagues describe him as continuously learning and shipping—equally comfortable containerizing infrastructure as crafting polished user flows.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Makerere University
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
javascript10
cloud-computing10
storage10
kubernetes-deployment10
service-layer10
hybrid-cloud10
alibabacloud10
react10
cloud-native9
database-management7
python6
paas5
docker3
k8s3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
StephenAraka/portfolio
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 65 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 4 months
StephenAraka/python
Jan 2020 - Mar 2025
Learning python
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
learning-pythonpython
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