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Education ๐ŸŽ“

  • Harvard University - Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science. Graduated in 2021
  • AIT Budapest - Study Abroad, Human Computer Interaction & Graphics.
  • Mang'u High School - Graduated with highest national honors (A of 84 points)

I am passionate about:

  • Human-centered design
  • Finding simple solutions to complex problems.
  • Creating beautiful, performant and user-friendly app and website experiences.
  • Experimenting with new technologies.

Areas of Expertise

  • ๐Ÿ“ฑ Mobile Development with Flutter, React Native or Kotlin
  • ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป Front-End Development with React
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Data Visualization with D3.js
  • ๐ŸŒน UI/UX Design and Prototyping with Figma
  • ๐Ÿ’พ Back-end Development with Firebase or NodeJS

Current Job

  • Founding Engineer at Fizz, a venture-backed fintech startup (YC S21). We are building the financial ally for students - a debit card that builds credit and offers discounts on campus. Interested? We are hiring
  • I am also a Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow in the 2021 Cohort.

Previous Jobs

  • Worked as a Frontend Developer at Nearside, a venture-backed startup that is building financial products for small business owners. Nearside was acquired for $130 million by Plastiq in early 2023.
  • I was a Facebook intern at their Seattle office where I learned all things โœจAndroidโœจ.
  • I worked at Dev: A Harvard Student Agency as a full-stack developer where I built web and mobile apps for 2 years.
  • My first developer job was at Twende Mobility, a Kenyan startup that is building logistics solutions such as carpooling and on demand delivery services.
Some interesting tidbits about me...

Here we go.... ๐ŸŽถ

  • I love aeroplanesโœˆ๏ธ and anything to do with Aviation. In another life I would totally be a pilot.
  • I love video games ๐ŸŽฎ. Current favorites: Legend of Zelda (Tears of the Kingdom), Elden Ring, Super Mario Odyssey and Red Dead Redemption 2.
  • Favorite Movies: The ShawShank Redemption, Gladiator, The wolf of Wall Street, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.
  • Favorite Series: Avatar - The Last Air Bender, The Big Bang Theory and Game of Thrones (Before season 8).
  • Favorite sports: Rugby and Football (Soccer). I don't have favorite teams, but usually I'm rooting for the underdog.

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Christopher Kinyua's Projects

big-ticket icon big-ticket

UI concept for movie booking website - Made during the third week of web-dev bootcamp

blog icon blog

Simple Django Blog App - Experimenting with django rest framework.

connectify icon connectify

Website that matches people based on the songs they listen to on Spotify

curate icon curate

An android app that generates unique playlists for you based on your current mood. Built using the Spotify Remote SDK and Spotify Web API

find-a-pet icon find-a-pet

A web-app that find pets for adoption in any location of the US via Zipcode. Made using the PetFinder API, some vanilla JS and bootstrap for the UI.

flicks icon flicks

Mobile App for browsing now playing movies from the TMDB api.

freshtable icon freshtable

Freshtable is a grocery management app created to reduce food wastage at home by helping users keep track of the groceries they buy and their expiry dates.

gitignore icon gitignore

A collection of useful .gitignore templates

habitat icon habitat

A community-based habit tracking app built with vanilla JS and Materialize CSS

image-editor icon image-editor

A simple app that allows users to edit images online. Made while playing around with the FileReader API and CamanJS Image Manipulation.

parstagram icon parstagram

Instagram Clone built using Java and a Parse-server backend

pingpong icon pingpong

An interactive web-game where numeral inputs are converted to words using a divisibility scale.

realestate-django icon realestate-django

Real-estate listing website built using Django 3.0, PostgreSQL and Bootstrap

simpletodo icon simpletodo

Simple todo list application. First android project

speech-api-project icon speech-api-project

A simple web-page that uses the web-speech-api to read text input in various languages and accents.

tourkenya-cs50-version- icon tourkenya-cs50-version-

This was the final project for CS50(introduction to programming). It's a simple flask app for planning trips to Kenya.

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