Waithîra Sharon
Lead Instructor & Founder at Code Darasa
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolWaithîra Sharon is a Nairobi-based software engineer and founder with a decade of experience building scalable, event-driven distributed systems using Python, Go, Ruby and Scala. She has led engineering and data efforts at companies like Namely and Credrails—delivering high-throughput reconciliation systems and production-ready data pipelines—and has deep hands-on expertise with Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC, and event-sourcing patterns. As founder and lead instructor at Code Darasa she designs practical curricula (Domain-Driven Design, SQL) and has a long track record of mentoring young African developers through TeenCode Africa and community outreach. Sharon combines strong DevOps and observability practices (Prometheus, Grafana, Kamon) with a penchant for breaking monoliths into resilient microservices, and she’s also launched grassroots social campaigns, showing unusual fluency in both technical delivery and community-driven impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
O-level, 0-level, O-level, 0-level at Bishop Gatimu Ngandu girls high schoolData Analysis, Data Analysis at UdacityBsc. Computer Science, Computer Science, Bsc. Computer Science, Computer Science at Multimedia university of kenya
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Github Skills (40)
docker10
kafka10
dbt10
spark9
python9
big-data8
bigquery8
data-engineering8
world-of-warcraft7
airflow7
azerothcore7
macos6
backend6
dictionary6
opencv6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Sharonsyra/bucketlist-restful
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
Sharonsyra/Image-Processing
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
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