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nickaigi/README.md

Hi, I'm Nickson Kaigi 👋

Full-stack Python engineer in Nairobi, Kenya.
I build fast APIs, tune databases and keep deployments boring.

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About me

  • 🐍 Over a decade of building SaaS backends with Python, Django and FastAPI
  • 🗄️ I like database work: partitioning, query tuning and API performance
  • ☁️ Cloud and delivery: AWS, Docker, Jenkins and GitHub Actions
  • 🌍 I work remotely with teams in the UK, US and New Zealand
  • 🤝 Open to collaborating on Python, Django and Neovim projects, and to contributing to open source
  • 🧠 Interested in machine learning

Tech stack

Python Django FastAPI Celery React Next.js PostgreSQL MySQL AWS Docker Jenkins GitHub Actions Neovim

My GitHub at a glance

Donut chart of the languages I use, by code size Donut chart of my repositories by last push

Charts cover my original (non-fork) public repositories and refresh automatically every week.

Featured projects

Project What it is
configs My Linux and Neovim configuration files (Lua) stars
django-pesapal Demo of integrating PesaPal payments into a Django app stars
happening_backend Backend for a news app: "It's happening" stars
kotlin-coursera Code from the Coursera Kotlin for Java Developers course stars
effective-javascript Notes from Effective JavaScript by David Herman stars

Get in touch

Have a slow query or a big migration? Email me at nickaigi@gmail.com or find me on LinkedIn. More about my work is on my portfolio.

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  1. configs configs Public

    My Linux Configuration files

    Lua 13 18

  2. django-pesapal django-pesapal Public

    Demo on how to integrate PesaPal into your django app

    Python 6 6

  3. happening_backend happening_backend Public

    For all your current news, think " It's happening "

    Python 1

  4. kotlin-coursera kotlin-coursera Public

    Code written during Coursera Kotlin for Java Developers

    Kotlin 1

  5. effective-javascript effective-javascript Public

    Notes from "Effective Javascript" by David Herman

    JavaScript 1

  6. python-pesapal python-pesapal Public

    Forked from wezatele/python_pesapal

    Pesapal API Python Library

    Python