Danstan Onyango
Customer Engineer at Expivot
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolDanstan Onyango is a versatile self-taught software engineer and founder with a decade of experience building distributed, realtime systems and cloud-native infrastructure from Nairobi. Currently a Customer Engineer at Microsoft and founder of Expivot, he blends hands-on backend expertise in Elixir, Go, Rust and JavaScript with product-minded mentorship that helps junior developers adopt modern tooling. His background includes architecting ETL pipelines on AWS, realtime Elixir backends, and production systems spanning Kubernetes, GCP and PostgreSQL, showing comfort across both systems and app layers. Known for mentoring at HackerBay University and leading engineering teams at DIL, he pairs pragmatic engineering with developer education. A polyglot tinkerer who codes for work and hobby alike, he brings creative curiosity and a track record of turning complex distributed problems into maintainable production services.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
English, Kiswahili
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Github Skills (158)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
zemuldo/api.zemuldo.com
Sep 2017 - Nov 2022
:rocket: :rocket: Elixir, Nodejs MongoDB API for my Website and Blog
Contributions:1 release, 370 commits, 64 PRs in 5 years 2 months
elixirmongodbnodejsphoenixphoenix-framework
zemuldo/k8s-setup
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:83 commits, 60 pushes in 9 months
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