Summary
Tabitha Kimani is a seasoned Software Engineer based in Nairobi with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications and cloud-deployed services. She specializes in PHP backends (Laravel, Phalcon) and modern frontends using Vue.js/Nuxt.js with Tailwind and component toolsets like ShadCN. At Betika she has delivered scalable, containerized systems on Docker and AWS while owning API documentation, on-call support, and cross-team collaboration. Her career includes mentoring interns, driving CI/CD and DevOps practices, and end-to-end product testing from her time at Kweli Capital and Solutech. Tabitha pairs a data science-informed degree from Strathmore University with practical product delivery, often translating complex requirements into well-documented, maintainable systems. She’s comfortable moving between hands-on feature work and operational reliability, a balance that helps teams ship and sustain production software.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of informatics and computer science, Data Science, Bachelor of informatics and computer science, Data Science at Strathmore University