Lewis Kihiu
Senior Software Engineer at Neal Street Technology
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolLewis Kihiu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nairobi with 8 years of experience building payment and cloud-native systems across startups and multinational teams. He has led end-to-end ventures from MVPs that secured VC interest to migrations and integrations at scale, including work that supported up to 2 million daily transactions and a multimillion-dollar acquisition. Technically fluent in Python/Django, Kubernetes, Helm, Kafka and blockchain tooling (ethers.js, hardhat, OpenZeppelin), he blends infrastructure-as-code with observability to keep high-load systems resilient and measurable. A strong communicator and documentation advocate, he mentors emerging engineers and led an 8-month hands-on mentorship cohort to improve industry readiness. Lewis is also an open-source proponent—authoring tools like vue-google-translate—and writes about tech, leadership and continuous learning, signaling an unusual combination of practitioner, educator and community builder.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
certification, international computer Driving licence(ICDL), certification, international computer Driving licence(ICDL) at institute of advanced technology (IAT)Kiambu high schoolBachelor's degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Bachelor's degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Technical University of kenya
English, Swahili
Github Skills (58)
google-translate-api10
gridsome-plugin9
opensea9
dev-environment9
django9
polygon9
client-library9
wallet9
connect9
mocking9
development-environment9
django-rest-framework9
mongodb8
localization8
blockchain8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lewis-kori/lewis-kori
May 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
yoyowallet/yoflow
Mar 2023 - Apr 2026
Django workflows
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 1 month
djangoshowcase
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