James Njoroge,
a 1-personality
model.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Own the technology direction of a Kenyan real-estate developer — architecture, delivery, and the systems the sales and marketing teams run on every day.
• Designed and drove the company platform mainly using Cloudflare, Google, and other services.
• First-hand designer for the Digital Marketing process to be able to collect information and trace marketing costs and customers.
• Run the vendor relationship and delivery schedules, owning the digital process from start to finish in the wild tech savannah that is Kenya.

Delaware, USA

• Founded Kuja and shipped it solo — an event-led social network for finding gatherings, hosting them, and meeting people in the real world. Live at kuja.app.
• Empty repository to production in under 3 weeks.
• Innovating and implementing Spot Codes, a place-resolution scheme that pins an event to a real location without exposing more of anyone's whereabouts than it has to.
• Own the whole loop: allows me to continuously iterate, learn, and build with my community in mind.

Chicago, IL

• Rebuilt the global incentive-program tracker as an integrated Excel, Essbase, and Power BI solution.
• Automated the global FP&A team's monthly financial-data ETL in Python — 75% less processing time, roughly two days a month given back.
• Optimized financial allocations with VBA scripts, taking a 20-hour process down to one hour.
• Worked closely on the finished tooling with executive leadership, including the global CFO and treasurer.

Hamilton, NY

• Explored emerging generative-AI tools and assessed their real effect on student learning.
• Met weekly with staff and faculty to share findings and guide how GenAI gets used in coursework.

Hamilton, NY

• Designed R Shiny interfaces that made complex R-based analyses usable by researchers across programming skill levels.
• Built and maintained applications for statistical analysis of geospatial data, social networks, and textual corpora.

Hamilton, NY

• Tutored Python and Java across four semesters, reinforcing data structures and algorithms.
• Ran debugging sessions and office hours, and mentored students through the courses that make people quit CS by making them fun and giving perspective to what they could do with their newly gained skills.