Kenny Shittu
Remote Software Engineer at data.world
Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKenny Shittu is a remote software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and mobile systems for distributed teams, currently at data.world. He has led engineering efforts across startups and remote-first companies, with hands-on expertise in Java, backend services (Dropwizard, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis), Android and iOS development, and AWS-based architectures. As a former technical team lead at Andela and backend lead at IntroStellar, he blends people leadership with pragmatic fault-finding and shipping reliable systems. Based in Canada, he favors a "measure twice, cut once" approach—balancing careful design with iterative delivery—and has a track record of moving between backend, mobile, and ops responsibilities in remote settings.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Information System, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Information System at Babcock university Nigeria
English, Spanish
Github Skills (33)
reference-implementation9
api-specification8
open-data8
datasets8
java8
tableau8
search-engine7
rest7
vega-lite7
elasticsearch7
restful6
slack6
swagger6
visualization4
payment-integration4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
datadotworld/dwapi-spec
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
data.world API Specifications (a.k.a. Swagger definition)
Contributions:2 reviews, 27 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 2 months
api-specificationswaggerdwstruct-t50-public-projects
datadotworld/slack-app
Feb 2018 - May 2021
data.world slack application.
Contributions:14 reviews, 135 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 3 months
slackdwstruct-t50-public-projects
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