# Denis Chweya

Denis Chweya is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Developer at Brandora, based in Kenya.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@denischweya

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Senior Developer at Brandora building a multi-tenant Laravel and React SaaS product, including Meta/Instagram and payment integrations.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Kenya |
| Authorized to work in | Kenya |
| Salary expectations | 50k+ USD |
| Job categories | Software Engineer, Senior Developer, Technical Lead |
| Skills | WordPress Multisite, TypeScript, WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, React, Gutenberg, WordPress Architecture, WooCommerce, Laravel, REST API Design, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Profiling, Performance Profiling, WordPress Core, Plugin Development |
| Website | https://denis.swishfolio.com |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/denis-bosire |
| GitHub | https://github.com/denischweya |

## About

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At Brandora, I architect and develop a multi-tenant Laravel and React SaaS product, from data models and API boundaries through deployment and production issue resolution. I’ve also built Meta/Instagram and payment integrations designed to handle rate limits, retries, duplicate deliveries and delayed third-party data.

I’m the sole author and maintainer of Swish Migrate and Backup, a GPL WordPress plugin I published and support as a product. Its shared processing engine supports the administrator UI, REST API and WP-CLI, with resumable processing and recovery for interrupted operations.

At Eastern Standard, I built and maintained web platforms for healthcare and public media clients, including WXPN and Cooper-related sites. I also contributed to WordPress core, published WordPress plugins and themes, and built custom React Gutenberg blocks for SwishFolio Core.
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## Experience

### Senior Developer (current)

Brandora. Jan 2026 - Present

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Architect and develop a multi-tenant Laravel and React SaaS product, from data models and API boundaries to deployment, observability and production issue resolution. Built integrations with Meta/Instagram and payment services, and diagnosed background-worker memory exhaustion.
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Skills: Laravel, React, SaaS, API-Design, Deployment, Observability, Integration, Payment-Services, Background-Processing, Instagram-Integration

### Senior Software Engineer

Eastern Standard. Dec 2024 - Nov 2025

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Built and maintained enterprise web platforms for healthcare and public media clients using WordPress/headless React and Drupal. Developed reusable components, improved accessibility and performance, and mentored junior engineers.
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Skills: WordPress, React, Drupal, Accessibility, Performance, Mentorship, Code-Review

### Senior Software Engineer, Contractor

[Toptal](https://himalayas.app/companies/toptal). Apr 2020 - Jan 2024

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Delivered backend architecture, complex custom WordPress development and production fixes for international clients. Optimized MySQL queries and caches for high-traffic WooCommerce/LMS systems and maintained REST APIs.
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Skills: WordPress, WooCommerce, MySQL, REST-APIs, Payment-Integration, CI-CD, Cloud-Infrastructure

### Founder & Developer

Pixel Tribe Interactive. Jan 2014 - Dec 2020

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Owned architecture, engineering, publishing, documentation and user support for independently released GPL WordPress products. Emphasized upgrade safety and backwards compatibility.
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Skills: WordPress, Product-Development, Documentation, User-Support, GPL

### Senior Developer / Tech Lead

Incentro. Jan 2019 - Nov 2019

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Led a four-developer delivery team on enterprise web projects. Reviewed pull requests, advised on architecture and supported hiring.
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Skills: Team-Leadership, Code-Review, Architecture, Hiring

## Education

### University of Leeds

Bachelor of Science, Pharmacology. 2008 - 2011

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BSc Pharmacology degree from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, completed in 2011.
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### University of Leeds

Bachelor of Science, Pharmacology. 2008 - 2011

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BSc Pharmacology degree from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, completed in 2011.
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## Tech stack

- GitHub Actions
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- WooCommerce
- Node.js
- Laravel
- Next.js
- Redis
- Jest
- React
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Linux
- WordPress
- Drupal
- TypeScript
- PHPUnit
- Docker
- Composer
- Playwright
- Square
- AWS
- Instagram

To contact Denis, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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