Valentine Rutto
Tech Mentor at Google for Startups
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolValentine Rutto is a senior Android engineer and tech mentor with about a decade of experience building production-grade, offline-first mobile systems for users across Africa and beyond. He specializes in Kotlin and modern Android architectures (Clean Architecture, MVVM/MVI), driving end-to-end ownership from design and API integration to performance tuning and release management. His work at companies like d.light, Twiga and BURN includes modularizing large codebases, migrating legacy Java to Kotlin, and designing resilient sync and scanning systems that improved reliability and retention in low-connectivity environments. Recently he’s focused on embedding AI-powered features into mobile apps and advising startups through Google for Startups while consulting at LD Talent. Beyond coding, he mentors, speaks, and writes technical content to grow the ecosystem, and is known for translating complex operational workflows into pragmatic, lifecycle-aware Android implementations. Based in Nairobi, he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on mentorship to scale Android platforms used across multiple countries.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (DeKUT)software development web and mobile development, software development web and mobile development at Moringa School
French, Swahili, English
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Github Skills (34)
rights9
protect8
injection8
kotlin7
logcat6
foreground-service6
database-migration6
dependency-injection6
kotlin-multiplatform6
android6
crashlytics6
android-room6
android-intent6
java6
debugging6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
valentineRutto/TwitterSearch
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
valentineRutto/valentineRutto.github.io
Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:135 commits, 112 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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