Stephen Gatana
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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SeniorStephen Gatana is a versatile software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable full-stack applications, currently working at Sand Technologies and contracting with DVT. He combines deep front-end expertise in React, Next.js, Vue and TypeScript with back-end skills in Node.js, Python and Go, having built high-throughput services and GraphQL/REST APIs backed by Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB. Stephen has repeatedly improved performance and delivery—most notably cutting page load times by 30% on an e-commerce front end and upgrading Next.js apps to boost SEO and developer productivity. He founded Eramstech Solutions to provide consulting services, mentors junior engineers, and thrives in distributed teams where clear communication and accessibility matter. Comfortable across cloud and DevOps tooling (AWS/Azure, Docker, CI/CD), he pairs pragmatic engineering with a product mindset honed at companies handling millions of daily orders. An often overlooked strength is his track record of translating multilingual and operational requirements into measurable user engagement gains.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (28)
nodejs7
javascript7
sql6
sqlite6
npm6
microsoft-sql-server5
orm5
typescript5
mysql5
django5
postgresql5
mariadb4
npm-cli4
mssql4
adapter4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sgatana/shoppinglistinredux
Feb 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:46 PRs, 83 pushes, 85 branches in 8 years 1 month
andela/wg-tomatoes
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout and weight tracker written with Django
Contributions:45 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 28 days
django
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