Emmanuel Kala
Engineering Manager at Wrapbook
Laguna Niguel, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmanuel Kala is an engineering manager with 14 years of hands-on experience building end-to-end software products for higher education, social enterprises, embedded systems and IoT. He combines systems and application programming strengths with DevOps and constrained-network IoT architecture to deliver reliable, production-ready services. Emmanuel has led cloud and platform teams from director to staff engineer roles, most recently managing engineering at Wrapbook after directing engineering at ATM.com. His open-source contributions include substantive back-end improvements to the well-known Ushahidi mapping platform, showing attention to data integrity and migration challenges. Based in Laguna Niguel, he brings a practical blend of product-focused leadership and low-level systems know-how that helps teams move from prototypes to scalable deployments. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges embedded constraints and cloud-scale operations.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at University of Nairobi
Github Skills (7)
php10
mysql9
sql9
database-design9
api8
geocoding8
apidoc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web
Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
Ushahidi v2. A platform that allows information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, allowing anyone to submit information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Emmanuel primarily focused on back-end improvements to the Ushahidi web platform. Key contributions included refactoring the settings table to use a key-value storage system, which involved creating an upgrade script to migrate data and modifying the settings model class. The user also addressed a bug on the alerts page by ensuring the map variable was globally accessible, and implemented a fix for retrieving cities via the GeoNames service. Furthermore, they corrected code related to category tree display and incorporated fixes for invalid property references, demonstrating a focus on core application functionality and data management.
e-mailmobileushahidivisualizationwebforms
ushahidi/SwiftRiver-API
Jan 2013 - Mar 2014
An API for external (third party) applications to post and consume data to/from SwiftRiver.
Contributions:239 commits in 1 year 2 months
consume-dataapipartyconsumeswift
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