Kimani Ndegwa
Senior Software Engineer
Nairobi,Nairobi
Summary
Adaptable Senior Software Engineer talented at providing customized and optimized solutions for all needs. Thrives within tight deadlines by applying agile development strategies. Comfortable overseeing large-scale development teams or independently coding complex projects.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Formstack Inc
Fishers, IN
06.2022 - 03.2025
- Led migration from Froala to Plate JS, resulting in a 20% improvement in editor performance and a 40% reduction in bug reports related to content formatting.
- Architected and shipped a unified builder experience in React and Plate JS, reducing licensing costs by 65% through strategic open-source adoption and saving the team ~200 dev hours per quarter.
- Integrated ONLYOFFICE to support seamless PDF/DOCX previews in a TypeScript/React viewer, increasing customer engagement with shared docs by 25% and slashing support tickets related to formatting issues by 30%.
- Established internal coding standards and end-to-end dev docs, reducing onboarding time for new engineers from 2 weeks to 4 days and boosting PR turnaround speed by 30%.
Software Engineer
Seismic (Formerly Percolate)
San Diego, CA
07.2021 - 06.2022
- Co-led technical roadmap planning for our core product, aligning across 2 squads and accelerating key feature delivery by 25% through improved architecture clarity and shared standards.
- Owned debugging and delivery of the Campaigns module in our marketing orchestration platform, reducing production incidents by 40% and cutting QA cycle time by 30%.
- Enhanced developer documentation and standardized feature scaffolding in our React mono repository, decreasing onboarding time by 50% and boosting internal adoption across 4 front-end teams.
Senior Software Developer (Frontend Heavy)
350.org
New York, CA
07.2019 - 05.2021
- Led performance optimization and feature development for the React/Node-based interactive map reducing load times by 45% and expanding geographic coverage by 60%.
- Built and maintained Python-based ETL pipelines processing over 100,000 records monthly, ensuring data integrity and reducing latency in data availability by 70%.
- Maintained and extended a custom WordPress theme powering 80% of site content, improving editor experience and reducing time-to-publish by 40%.
- Co-developed the web squad’s strategic roadmap, leading the implementation of 3 high-priority initiatives that directly increased site engagement by 25% over 2 quarters.
Software Engineer
Maven Machines Inc
Pittsburg, PA
05.2017 - 06.2019
- Launched a Fleet Administration dashboard that enabled visibility into over 2,000 truck-terminal pairings, reducing operational lookup time by 70% and improving route coordination efficiency.
- Designed, developed, and documented a time-editing interface for electronically logged device data, reducing manual support interventions by 60% and improving admin task resolution time by 40%.
- Built a micro-service for automated report generation (PDF, CSV, HTML), cutting average report delivery time from 15 minutes to under 2, and reducing API load on the client platform by 35%.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications And Information Engineering
Multimedia University of Kenya
Nairobi 09.2019 - 09.2025
Skills
Reactjs
TypeScript
Node
Python
Leadership Skills
Product Design
Express JS
CSS3
HTML
SASS/LESS
Styled Components
Server Side Rendering
Kotlin
API
Performance improvements
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Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Formstack Inc
06.2022 - 03.2025
Software Engineer
Seismic (Formerly Percolate)
07.2021 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications And Information Engineering
Multimedia University of Kenya
09.2019 - 09.2025
Senior Software Developer (Frontend Heavy)
350.org
07.2019 - 05.2021
Software Engineer
Maven Machines Inc
05.2017 - 06.2019
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