Kiprop Kimani

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Director of Engineering at Paystack · Growth engineering

Paystack
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
14+ years experience
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
English, Swahili
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Overview

16 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Paystack, where I lead the growth team. Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 510ms to 42ms. Before that: Takealot and Vodacom. Most at home with React and PostgreSQL. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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  • Advice on growth engineering
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Second opinions on experimentation decisions
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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
TypeScriptNode.jsReactexperimentationthreat modelinganalyticsPostgreSQL
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Office hours for students choosing a first job: growth engineering and threat modeling

Topics
growth engineering, threat modeling, React
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16 years of growth engineering. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Paystack · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Grew the growth team from 3 to 15 engineers.
    • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 39 a week to 4.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Apr 2021 - Oct 2023
    Takealot · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Led the migration of 32 services to PostgreSQL.
  3. Staff Full-Stack Engineer
    Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
    Vodacom · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Grew the growth team from 5 to 15 engineers.
    • Wrote the experimentation service that now handles 70 million requests a day.
  4. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
    Kuda · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped 8 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
  5. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Oct 2012 - Jul 2015
    Mastercard · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 816ms to 158ms.

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Education

  1. University of Nigeria, Nsukka
    BEng, Information Technology
    2005 - 2009

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