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Elijah Wandimi

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)


Skills:

Golang, Java, Python, SQL, C/C++  |  MySQL, PostgresSql, Snowflake, Redis  |  RabbitMQ, Kafka, GCP, AWS, Flink, Docker


Experience

4. Software engineer  |  Pepeta Kenya  |  April 2025 - present

  • 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

3. Software engineer  |  Vertex Hub Group  |  January 2024 - March 2025

  • 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)

2. Machine Learning engineer (Volunteer)  |  Omdena, Romania Chapter,  |  Dec 2023 - April 2024

Combating deforestation using Machine learning in Romania challenge

1. Software engineer (intern)  |  Meliora Technologies,  |  June 2023 - December 2023

  • Contributed to a coaching platform, both frontend (Angular + Typescript) and backend (Java + Spring Boot)

Education

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
Volunteering

Zindi Africa Campus Ambassador  -  2022 - 2023
Multimedia University of Kenya

GDSC Lead  -  2021–2022
Multimedia University of Kenya

Acheivements

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


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  1. Authorify Authorify Public

    Java

  2. logsar logsar Public

    C++

  3. RFM-Customer-Analysis RFM-Customer-Analysis Public

    Analysis of customer based on their recency, frequency and monetary value of their purchases.

    Jupyter Notebook