Stephen Odhiambo

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Senior Engineering Manager, Rivet Health - Kotlin · Coroutines · Gradle

Rivet Health
Kigali, Rwanda · CAT (UTC+2)
12+ years experience
Lagos Business School
English, Kinyarwanda, French, Arabic
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Overview

Based in Kigali. I lead mobile apps at Rivet Health. Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Access Bank and EY. Most at home with Gradle and Coroutines.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Questions about mobile apps
  • Working sessions on Coroutines
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Offshore staffing offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
KotlinErlang/OTPCoroutinesGradle

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2024 - Present
    Rivet Health · 2 yr · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Built the experimentation framework 27 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped 27 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
  2. Senior Android Engineer
    Jul 2023 - Sep 2024
    Access Bank · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2020 - Apr 2023
    EY · 3 yr · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 634ms to 121ms.
    • Shipped 30 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
  4. Senior Android Engineer
    Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
    Interswitch · 3 yr 7 mo · Contract · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Took crash-free sessions from 96.7% to 99.7%.
  5. Senior Android Engineer
    Apr 2015 - Sep 2016
    Carrow Consulting · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Moved 79% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Mobile apps benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Coroutines and Erlang/OTP on real workloads.

Open-source Coroutines toolkit
2024

A small library for mobile apps that 59 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Lagos Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2009 - 2011
  2. University of the Witwatersrand
    BSc, Information Technology
    2004 - 2008

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