Lilian Kimani

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Engineering Manager at Kingsway Digital | ex-Deloitte

Kingsway Digital
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
11+ years experience
University of the Witwatersrand
English, Swahili
Hiring
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Overview

I lead distributed databases at Kingsway Digital in Nairobi. Led the migration of 66 services to Raft. Grew the storage team from 4 to 18 engineers. Gardening and composting evangelist.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Second opinions on performance engineering decisions
  • Questions about distributed databases
  • Working sessions on RocksDB
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  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

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Skills
RustRaftRocksDBC++performance engineering
HiringHiring for a role
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6 mobile engineer roles open on the storage team in Nairobi

Role
Mobile engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$137k-$178k
Team
Storage, 9 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with performance engineering Production experience with Raft Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $163k-$243k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Nairobi, Kenyaraftrustperformance engineering
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2023 - Present
    Kingsway Digital · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 2.
    • Led the migration of 57 services to Raft.
  2. Software Engineer
    Aug 2021 - Jul 2023
    Deloitte · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Wrote the Raft service that now handles 46 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 16 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  3. Software Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
    Naspers · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 6.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 12 a week to 2.
  4. Software Engineer
    Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
    Standard Bank · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 735ms to 145ms.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2016 - Mar 2018
    Microsoft · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 33 a week to 4.
    • Built the experimentation framework 34 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

  1. University of the Witwatersrand
    BSc, Electronics and Communication
    2008 - 2012

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