Available · Nairobi, Kenya

Clinton
Ombui

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I build data pipelines, analytics platforms, and distributed systems that move fast and stay reliable. 3+ years engineering production data infrastructure — from ETL architectures on Azure to leading microservice migration programmes at scale.

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120

Microservices migrated

80% in 9 months

Years production

Data eng & systems

40%

Deploy time cut

Via Bash automation

African markets

Cross-border rollouts

Selected Projects

Microservices · Enterprise · Team Lead

Python Migration Programme

FastAPI · Python · DDD · Azure VMs · GitLab

Led a 12-member team to refactor 150+ heterogeneous microservices (Go, Java, TypeScript, JS) into unified Python services. Architected async FastAPI services consolidating data flows across WhatsApp, Viber, and Telegram — millions of messages/month for the African market.

120 services delivered 80% in 9 months Zero failures at go-live

Smartfinovation × Sfera LLC

Full-stack · Analytics · Independent

Employee Engagement Analytics

Django · React · MySQL · Anonymous Auth

Multi-tenant analytics platform for a 300-person organisation across 11 departments. Fully anonymous submissions by decoupling identity from responses — zero PII stored. Real-time dashboards surfacing gender engagement scores at individual, department, and company level.

300 users 11 departments 100% data integrity Zero PII stored

GitHub ↗

Full-stack · SaaS · Client Work

HR Portfolio Management System

Django · React · MySQL · Azure · M-Pesa API

Multi-tenant professional portfolio platform for New School HR community. Dual-portal architecture — Admin RBAC for 500 members + peer recommendation exchange. Tenant data isolation with M-Pesa Daraja billing roadmap for 40M+ mobile-money users.

200–500 members Built in 2 months Multi-tenant

GitHub ↗

Work History

Jun 2025 – Dec 2025 Smartfinovation × Sfera LLC Westlands, Nairobi

Software Developer Team Lead / Data Engineer

Spearheaded a 12-member engineering team to migrate 150+ microservices to unified Python services using DDD — 120 delivered in 9 months.
Architected async FastAPI services consolidating data across 3 high-volume messaging platforms, processing millions of messages/month for the African market.
Built ETL pipelines ingesting from 10+ diverse API sources, eliminating downstream data inconsistencies.
Cut deployment overhead by 40% through Bash scripting automation across the 120-service portfolio.
Provisioned services on Azure VMs (Linux) — zero data-consistency failures at go-live.

Nov 2024 – May 2025 Independent Project Nairobi, Kenya

Software Engineer — Employee Engagement Analytics

Built a multi-tenant analytics platform for a 300-person organisation across 11 departments with real-time dashboards.
Engineered anonymous submissions decoupling identity from responses — zero PII stored; 100% data integrity guaranteed.
Authored aggregation pipelines reducing reporting from manual compilation to instant dashboard queries.

Sep 2024 – Nov 2024 New School · HR Community Kenya Nairobi, Kenya

Software Engineer — Portfolio Management System

Delivered a multi-tenant platform for 200–500 HR community members within a 2-month window.
Dual-portal architecture: Admin RBAC + peer portfolio and recommendation exchange.
Scoped cloud deployment (Azure / AWS) with M-Pesa Daraja API billing roadmap for 40M+ users.

2021 – 2024 Mansoft Limited Ngong Road, Nairobi

Senior Support Executive & Software Developer

Reduced database incidents from 10–30/day to 5/day (66% improvement) across 20+ enterprise clients.
Built an API automating attendance-log and overtime calculation — eliminated manual payroll; generated new client referrals within 3 months.
Coordinated HR rollouts across 6 African countries: Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Lesotho.

Technical Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Python · FastAPI · Django95%

Advanced SQL90%

Bash Scripting · Linux85%

React · Django REST78%

Data Engineering

ETL / ELT Design90%

dbt · Data Transformation75%

Airflow · Apache Spark65%

Kafka · Streaming60%

Cloud & Databases

MySQL · PostgreSQL90%

Microsoft Azure85%

AWS (S3, EC2)65%

Snowflake SQL55%

Tools & Practices

About

I'm a data engineer based in Nairobi, Kenya, with a strong conviction that good data infrastructure is the backbone of every data-driven product decision.

My background sits at the intersection of distributed systems, ETL pipelines, and backend engineering. I've led teams, shipped production services under tight deadlines, and navigated the complexity of multi-jurisdiction enterprise deployments across six African markets.

I'm deepening my expertise in modern data stack tools — dbt, Airflow, Snowflake — and actively seeking mission-driven global organisations where data engineering has direct product and business impact.

LocationNairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪

Emailnyaenya.c.o@gmail.com

Phone+254 745 861 662

GitHubK1intNyaenya ↗

LinkedInclinton-ombui ↗

EducationB.Sc Business & IT — JKUAT

Open toRemote · Hybrid · Relocation

↳ HR Analytics — Mercer Mettle (2024)

↳ Data Engineer Programme — LuxDev HQ (Ongoing)

↳ Associate Data Engineer in SQL — Data Community Africa (Ongoing)

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