Top Talent like Eric are on Pangea

Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.
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Eric Gitangu

AI & Machine Learning Engineer
Full-stack Engineer
Backend Engineer
Nairobi, Nairobi County, KE
Software Engineering
Databases
React
Mobile Development
Front-End Development
Javascript
Next.js
Terraform
Python
PyTorch
Logic Pro
Apache Kafka
pandas
Kubernetes
SecDevOps
Amazon S3
TDD
Amazon Web Services
AWS Amplify
Backend Development
Software Development
Full Stack Development
Machine Learning
Available for hire fromNegotiable
Contracts
Senior Software Engineer · Distributed Systems, Platform Architecture & Security
Senior software engineer with 11 years in production systems across fintech, healthcare, energy access, logistics and application security. I design distributed, event-driven platforms and own them end to end: architecture, security, delivery and the teams that build them. Currently Senior Full Stack Engineer, Architecture & Security at Moovn Technologies, Nairobi. Polyglot across TypeScript, Java, PHP, Python, Rust, Go and C#. Portfolio: https://developer.ericgitangu.com

Projects

Portfolio

Contains a variety of projects there in, consider this a hub to my other projects under the projects tab, for more visit my Public repo for more projects. For my best work, kindly request access to my private repo at https://github.com/ericgitanguSee More

Work History

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Director of Engineering

Vishnu Systems, Inc.Jan 2024 - Aug 2025 • 1 yr 8 mosEngineering lead, securing AI & ML application, processes & devices, I lead the end to end Solution delivery working hands on and guiding the vision of the company in this niche market vertical.
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Project Lead Developer

Baw Bab Technologies, Inc.Apr 2023 - Aug 2025 • 2 yrs 5 mosBaw Bab Technologies, Inc. a Seattle-based software platform Digital Address logistics Infrastructure developer and a Microsoft partner. As the lead developer I am responsible for Baw Bab plans to develop and implement innovative technologies that is a vertically integrated business model that include, Proprietary Digital address logistics infrastructure and real-time navigation systems for Last-mile delivery for non-traditional addresses.
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Software Engineer

TruStacksJan 2023 - Aug 2025 • 2 yrs 8 mosTruStacks DevOps Orchestration and end to end software delivery platform easing the adoption of development best-practices and workflows. Stacks are integrated developer workflows that take out the guesswork of the DevOps developer needs to support the deployment of my applications. Deliver consistent, reproducible code using industry standard tools and best practices. We invert the imperative DevOps solutions by delivering declarative, deterministic stacks built by industry and community experts. In my tenure I contribute to the open-source initiative to build on the Stacks toolchain, custom pipelines to support various workloads such as the tasks defined in a project’s CI/CD protocols, encompassing various frameworks from fetching dependencies, running tests, building, staging, security tests with the premise, git push, go home.
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Professional Development

Career BreakJul 2022 - Apr 2023 • 10 mosHealth and wellbeing. I also took the time for my personal professional growth.
R

Senior Software Engineer

Reinsurance Group of America, IncorporatedJan 2022 - Jul 2022 • 7 mosI work as a member of a rather small collaborative team to consistently deliver complete software deliverables within our product development life cycle by writing test driven software leveraging unit tests TDD (Jest) - test driven development, Integration and Functional testing leveraging e2e testing tools as cucumber, puppeteer and cypress and submit working code according to schedules set by finance and project owners to ensure sufficient test coverage and correctness. We work on a strict and versatile scrum cycle, a hybrid version of Agile Methodologies (Scrum)/ Kanban process by as guided our business requirements. Due to our team size, we are tasked with a lot, including being on duty after hours, to support the various applications we support across various countries each tailored for the country in terms if access/role granularity and localization. I continue to not only suggest but demonstrate efficient and appropriate solutions to meet product requirement and keep current in emerging concepts and adopt up-to-date technologies to complete ad hoc projects. Tech Stack: (MEAN/ MERN): React, Node, Angular, Mongo. Legacy: grails, groovy, Shell Scripts. DB: SQL, Postgres, Mongo and various other monitoring and logging applications.
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Senior Full Stack Engineer, Architecture and Security

Moovn TechnologiesFull-time EmployeeOwn delivery, security and architecture for a multi-surface fintech mobility platform (Mastercard partner): consumer, partner and admin web apps, a mobile API and the service backend, covering money movement, identity and regulated payments compliance. Removed a critical authentication bypass and migrated stored credentials to modern hashing. Built the card top-up rail on Mastercard Payment Gateway Services hosted sessions, so card data never reaches our servers, plus M-Pesa, MTN and Tigo mobile money rails with per-country routing; mapped controls to PCI DSS SAQ-A. Designed a cross-product trust score engine with signed partner event ingestion, a tamper-evident ledger and a nightly recompute. Introduced immutable releases with automatic rollback on a failed post-deploy smoke test.
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Senior Full Stack Engineer, Architecture and Security

Moovn TechnologiesFull-time EmployeeOwn delivery, security and architecture for a multi-surface fintech mobility platform (Mastercard partner): consumer, partner and admin web apps, a mobile API and the service backend, covering money movement, identity and regulated payments compliance. Removed a critical authentication bypass and migrated stored credentials to modern hashing. Built the card top-up rail on Mastercard Payment Gateway Services hosted sessions, so card data never reaches our servers, plus M-Pesa, MTN and Tigo mobile money rails with per-country routing; mapped controls to PCI DSS SAQ-A. Designed a cross-product trust score engine with signed partner event ingestion, a tamper-evident ledger and a nightly recompute. Introduced immutable releases with automatic rollback on a failed post-deploy smoke test.
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Team Lead, Platform and Quality Engineering

ENGIE Energy Access (now Ignite Energy Access)Full-time EmployeeMay 2025 - Jan 2026 • 9 mosLed platform and quality engineering for a pay-as-you-go solar platform serving seven African markets with millions of daily transactions. Moved payments to an event-driven architecture with RabbitMQ bounded contexts for payment, token and subscription, removing peak-load timeouts across all seven markets. Built 900 critical-path Playwright and Cypress scenarios: regression fell from three days to 45 minutes and releases rose from 2 to 12 a week. Cut anomaly detection from hours to under five minutes and led the Rails 5 to 7.2 upgrade. Line-managed four engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; two were promoted to senior.

Education

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University of Massachusetts Lowell

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Mathematics (minor)2011 - 2015

How Pangea Works

Effortlessly discover top talent

We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.

Start working with talent today

The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.

Track work and invoices in one place

Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!

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Senior Software Engineer · Distributed Systems, Platform Architecture & Security
Senior software engineer with 11 years in production systems across fintech, healthcare, energy access, logistics and application security. I design distributed, event-driven platforms and own them end to end: architecture, security, delivery and the teams that build them. Currently Senior Full Stack Engineer, Architecture & Security at Moovn Technologies, Nairobi. Polyglot across TypeScript, Java, PHP, Python, Rust, Go and C#. Portfolio: https://developer.ericgitangu.com

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Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
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Top Talent like Eric are on Pangea

Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.

Eric Gitangu

AI & Machine Learning Engineer
Full-stack Engineer
Backend Engineer
Nairobi, Nairobi County, KE
Software Engineering
Databases
React
Mobile Development
Front-End Development
Javascript
Next.js
Terraform
Python
PyTorch
Logic Pro
Apache Kafka
pandas
Kubernetes
SecDevOps
Amazon S3
TDD
Amazon Web Services
AWS Amplify
Backend Development
Software Development
Full Stack Development
Machine Learning
Available for hire fromNegotiable
Contracts

Projects

Portfolio

Contains a variety of projects there in, consider this a hub to my other projects under the projects tab, for more visit my Public repo for more projects. For my best work, kindly request access to my private repo at https://github.com/ericgitangu

Work History

V

Director of Engineering

Vishnu Systems, Inc.Jan 2024 - Aug 2025 • 1 yr 8 mosEngineering lead, securing AI & ML application, processes & devices, I lead the end to end Solution delivery working hands on and guiding the vision of the company in this niche market vertical.
B

Project Lead Developer

Baw Bab Technologies, Inc.Apr 2023 - Aug 2025 • 2 yrs 5 mosBaw Bab Technologies, Inc. a Seattle-based software platform Digital Address logistics Infrastructure developer and a Microsoft partner. As the lead developer I am responsible for Baw Bab plans to develop and implement innovative technologies that is a vertically integrated business model that include, Proprietary Digital address logistics infrastructure and real-time navigation systems for Last-mile delivery for non-traditional addresses.
T

Software Engineer

TruStacksJan 2023 - Aug 2025 • 2 yrs 8 mosTruStacks DevOps Orchestration and end to end software delivery platform easing the adoption of development best-practices and workflows. Stacks are integrated developer workflows that take out the guesswork of the DevOps developer needs to support the deployment of my applications. Deliver consistent, reproducible code using industry standard tools and best practices. We invert the imperative DevOps solutions by delivering declarative, deterministic stacks built by industry and community experts. In my tenure I contribute to the open-source initiative to build on the Stacks toolchain, custom pipelines to support various workloads such as the tasks defined in a project’s CI/CD protocols, encompassing various frameworks from fetching dependencies, running tests, building, staging, security tests with the premise, git push, go home.
C

Professional Development

Career BreakJul 2022 - Apr 2023 • 10 mosHealth and wellbeing. I also took the time for my personal professional growth.
R

Senior Software Engineer

Reinsurance Group of America, IncorporatedJan 2022 - Jul 2022 • 7 mosI work as a member of a rather small collaborative team to consistently deliver complete software deliverables within our product development life cycle by writing test driven software leveraging unit tests TDD (Jest) - test driven development, Integration and Functional testing leveraging e2e testing tools as cucumber, puppeteer and cypress and submit working code according to schedules set by finance and project owners to ensure sufficient test coverage and correctness. We work on a strict and versatile scrum cycle, a hybrid version of Agile Methodologies (Scrum)/ Kanban process by as guided our business requirements. Due to our team size, we are tasked with a lot, including being on duty after hours, to support the various applications we support across various countries each tailored for the country in terms if access/role granularity and localization. I continue to not only suggest but demonstrate efficient and appropriate solutions to meet product requirement and keep current in emerging concepts and adopt up-to-date technologies to complete ad hoc projects. Tech Stack: (MEAN/ MERN): React, Node, Angular, Mongo. Legacy: grails, groovy, Shell Scripts. DB: SQL, Postgres, Mongo and various other monitoring and logging applications.
M

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Architecture and Security

Moovn TechnologiesFull-time EmployeeOwn delivery, security and architecture for a multi-surface fintech mobility platform (Mastercard partner): consumer, partner and admin web apps, a mobile API and the service backend, covering money movement, identity and regulated payments compliance. Removed a critical authentication bypass and migrated stored credentials to modern hashing. Built the card top-up rail on Mastercard Payment Gateway Services hosted sessions, so card data never reaches our servers, plus M-Pesa, MTN and Tigo mobile money rails with per-country routing; mapped controls to PCI DSS SAQ-A. Designed a cross-product trust score engine with signed partner event ingestion, a tamper-evident ledger and a nightly recompute. Introduced immutable releases with automatic rollback on a failed post-deploy smoke test.
M

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Architecture and Security

Moovn TechnologiesFull-time EmployeeOwn delivery, security and architecture for a multi-surface fintech mobility platform (Mastercard partner): consumer, partner and admin web apps, a mobile API and the service backend, covering money movement, identity and regulated payments compliance. Removed a critical authentication bypass and migrated stored credentials to modern hashing. Built the card top-up rail on Mastercard Payment Gateway Services hosted sessions, so card data never reaches our servers, plus M-Pesa, MTN and Tigo mobile money rails with per-country routing; mapped controls to PCI DSS SAQ-A. Designed a cross-product trust score engine with signed partner event ingestion, a tamper-evident ledger and a nightly recompute. Introduced immutable releases with automatic rollback on a failed post-deploy smoke test.
E

Team Lead, Platform and Quality Engineering

ENGIE Energy Access (now Ignite Energy Access)Full-time EmployeeMay 2025 - Jan 2026 • 9 mosLed platform and quality engineering for a pay-as-you-go solar platform serving seven African markets with millions of daily transactions. Moved payments to an event-driven architecture with RabbitMQ bounded contexts for payment, token and subscription, removing peak-load timeouts across all seven markets. Built 900 critical-path Playwright and Cypress scenarios: regression fell from three days to 45 minutes and releases rose from 2 to 12 a week. Cut anomaly detection from hours to under five minutes and led the Rails 5 to 7.2 upgrade. Line-managed four engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; two were promoted to senior.

Education

U

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Mathematics (minor)2011 - 2015

How Pangea Works

Effortlessly discover top talent

We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.

Start working with talent today

The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.

Track work and invoices in one place

Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!

Talk with a Talent Expert

Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
Available Now
Book a Call
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