Stephen Gatana
Software Engineer at DVT
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolStephen Gatana is a versatile software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable full-stack applications, currently working at Sand Technologies and contracting with DVT. He combines deep front-end expertise in React, Next.js, Vue and TypeScript with back-end skills in Node.js, Python and Go, having built high-throughput services and GraphQL/REST APIs backed by Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB. Stephen has repeatedly improved performance and delivery—most notably cutting page load times by 30% on an e-commerce front end and upgrading Next.js apps to boost SEO and developer productivity. He founded Eramstech Solutions to provide consulting services, mentors junior engineers, and thrives in distributed teams where clear communication and accessibility matter. Comfortable across cloud and DevOps tooling (AWS/Azure, Docker, CI/CD), he pairs pragmatic engineering with a product mindset honed at companies handling millions of daily orders. An often overlooked strength is his track record of translating multilingual and operational requirements into measurable user engagement gains.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at CS50Bachelor's degree Bsc. Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Bsc. Computer Science at Maseno University
English, Kiswahili
Github Skills (38)
nodejs8
npm-cli8
javascript7
npm7
sql7
orm6
mssql6
typescript6
sqlite6
json6
fitness6
postgresql6
mysql6
database5
package-manager5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
andela/wg-tomatoes
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout and weight tracker written with Django
Contributions:45 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 28 days
pythontrackerdjangohostedfitness
sgatana/shoppinglistinredux
Feb 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:38 PRs, 73 pushes, 78 branches in 7 years 2 months
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