Summary
Swaleh Matongwa is a Lead Developer based in Nairobi with eight years of experience building accessible, cloud-native web and mobile applications. He leads full lifecycle projects—requirements, design, testing, deployment—and focuses on WCAG 2.1-compliant front ends using WordPress, Next.js and Directus, while driving back-end work in Laravel, .NET, Python, and AWS serverless stacks. His background includes modernizing legacy systems, building BI and dispatch solutions, and creating multi-platform educational chatbots and analytics tools that improved operational efficiency. Swaleh pairs hands-on coding and DevOps (DigitalOcean, Nginx, Apache) with mentoring and process improvements, having introduced version control and raised maintainability metrics on legacy codebases. Notably, he has a track record of shipping features that cut operational costs and time—such as a meeting-room system that halved management overhead—while keeping accessibility and reliability front and center.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, BSc Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at Maseno University