Victor Preston
Backend Engineer at Data Integrated Limited (DIL)
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Preston is a backend engineer based in Nairobi with 3–5 years of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and responsive front ends. He has delivered high-throughput microservices and payment integrations (including M-Pesa) and built PWAs that handle large catalogs and offline use, demonstrating a practical blend of Java Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, and React. Victor has embedded AI/LLM capabilities into production backends and designed orchestration and background processing that reliably handle millions of jobs weekly. He accelerates delivery with GitOps-driven CI/CD and containerized deployments, consistently reducing latency and operational costs through pragmatic migrations from monoliths to microservices. Known for measurable impact—such as cutting delivery times by nearly 20% and saving hundreds of manual hours monthly—he pairs a developer-first GitHub workflow with a strong focus on clean code and observability.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Starehe Boys' Centre & SchoolComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at African Leadership ExperienceBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Chuka University
English
Github Skills (84)
python-scripts10
wifi-hacking10
brute-force-attacks9
bruteforce9
python9
wifi9
pep9
cybersecurity8
low-level8
security8
web-ide8
pentesting8
keylogger7
notify7
network-programming7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
victorpreston/simple_shell
Aug 2023 - Nov 2025
A minimalistic yet fully functional shell terminal emulation | Using C programming language, simple_shell executes basic commands, interacts with the operating system and introduces users to the foundational concepts of process management & input/output operations,
Contributions:1 PR, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
cprogramming-languageemulationoperating-systemshellalx
victorpreston/alx-higher_level_programming
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:298 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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