Matilda Gitonga

Software engineer

From messy data to dependable software.

I build dependable software across applied AI, data-driven research, and web systems.

Matilda Mwendwa Gitonga smiling in a grey jacket and orange top.

About

Curious by habit,
practical by training.

I’m drawn to problems where the useful answer is hidden inside a complex system.

I’m a software engineer based in Nairobi with a First Class Honours degree in Informatics and Computer Science from Strathmore University. My work spans software engineering, applied AI, data analysis, and cybersecurity, from optimizing databases at Microsoft and assessing vulnerabilities at the Communications Authority of Kenya to reconstructing service relationships from application logs and building reliable workflows for an online storefront.

I enjoy moving between investigation and implementation: testing an approach, learning from what it reveals, and turning the result into software that people can use.

Contact

Let’s talk.

I’m open to engineering roles, research collaborations, and conversations about applied AI and data-driven products. If you’re working on something where the data is complicated and the software needs to be dependable, I’d like to hear about it.