Wanjiru Kamau

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Backend Engineer at Twiga Foods · API platforms · Django, OpenAPI

Twiga Foods
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
2+ years experience
Stellenbosch University
English, Swahili
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Overview

Backend Engineer at Twiga Foods, focused on API platforms. Built the experimentation framework 40 product teams use to ship changes safely. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 2. Most at home with REST and PostgreSQL. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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Skills
ARM Cortex-MPythonPostgreSQLDjangorate limitingRESTOpenAPI

Experience

  1. Backend Engineer
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Twiga Foods · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped 9 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 648ms to 136ms.

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Education

  1. Stellenbosch University
    BEng, Electronics and Communication
    2019 - 2023

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