Based in Nairobi; availbe remotely
info.elijahwandimi@gmail.com | https://etumaru.github.io/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/etumaru/ | https://twitter.com/elijah_wandimi
Software engineer who loves building high performant, scalable and reliable concurrent backend systems. Also plays chess and reads lots of books (maths and science)
Golang, Java, Python, SQL, C/C++ | MySQL, PostgresSql, Snowflake, Redis | RabbitMQ, Kafka, GCP, AWS, Flink, Docker
- Crash and casino games integrations processing upto more than 5K bets per minute at peak hours
- Payments services maintainance and integrations providing high throuput and correctness.
- Auto reconciliation service for deposits processing ensuring reliability.
- Fix issues in legacy services
- MPesa integrations for a Sacco
- Payments reconciliation platform (React + ExpressJS)
- Payments gateway for 7 banking channels
- Mobile application for wallet and loans management (Flutter)
- USSD platform to improve accessibility for customers with low-end phones
- Backoffice portal for 2 Saccos (laravel)
Combating deforestation using Machine learning in Romania challenge
- Contributed to a coaching platform, both frontend (Angular + Typescript) and backend (Java + Spring Boot)
BSc Computer Science, Software engineering | Multimedia University of Kenya | September 2019 - April 2023
- Focus mainly in ; Mathematics (Linear Algebra, Calculus, Probability and statistics), Machine learning, Distributed systems, Algorithms and Analysis of algorithms,
OOP, Computation, Languages and Automata - Activities : Program Manager, CIT Club MMU
Zindi Africa Campus Ambassador - 2022 - 2023
Multimedia University of Kenya
GDSC Lead - 2021–2022
Multimedia University of Kenya
2nd Winning solution for Kenya SL Recognition and Translation | Zindi Africa and Jenga School | Nov 2022
Vice Chancellor's Award for leading MMU CIT Club as Program Manager | awarded Best Performing Club | 2022–2023



