Macharia Muguku
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Data, DevOps AI)
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolMacharia Muguku is a seasoned Data and Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building and optimizing data infrastructure and cloud platforms, based in Nairobi, Kenya. As a Data Engineer at Ona since 2022, he designs real-time OLAP warehouses with ClickHouse, runs data lakes/lakehouses on AWS S3, and develops 15+ Python Airbyte connectors, with orchestration in Prefect and DBT on Kubernetes and serverless Lambda. He previously contributed as a Software Engineer at Ona, delivering frontend improvements that raised test coverage to 95%+, migrated infrastructure from EC2 to Kubernetes to cut costs, and aligned backend services with the FHIR standard for open health stack integration. His DevOps toolkit includes Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Docker, and Kubernetes, with a track record of deploying data tools, security policies, and monitoring to reduce incident response times. An active open-source contributor to health-tech projects like FHIR Web and MIECD, he blends data, software, and governance expertise, underpinned by a BSc in Computer Science from Chuka University and a passion for automation and audio visualization.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, second class honors (Upper division), Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, second class honors (Upper division) at Chuka University
English, Swahili
Github Skills (129)
postgresql10
operation10
python10
data-warehouse10
airbyte10
databases10
data-ingestion10
etl10
duckdb10
data-pipeline10
lakes10
data-engineering10
elt10
pipeline10
data-integration10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
onaio/airbyte
Mar 2022 - Sep 2023
Airbyte is an open-source EL(T) platform that helps you replicate your data in your warehouses, lakes and databases.
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 6 months
data-sciencesqlbigquerybig-dataspark
machariamuguku/nodejs-mpesa-api
May 2019 - Dec 2019
NodeJs and Express M-PESA API. Documentation here
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 6 months
m-pesaapiexpressjsexpressapi-documentation
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