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ChrisMunene/README.md

Before I say anything: if you're a founder or recruiter looking for talent, just hire me bruh. I'm cracked.

Don't overthink it. My contact info is below. Just do it.

Education ๐ŸŽ“

  • Harvard University - Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science. Graduated in 2021. Yes, during peak covid. It was great, sigh
  • AIT Budapest - Study Abroad. Took classes on Human Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics & Mobile App Dev. And learned Hungarian.

I am passionate about:

  • Creating beautiful, performant and user-friendly digital experiences. (Performant may be a bit hyperbolic here, but BOI ARE THEY BEAUTIFUL!!)
  • Human-centered design. I care about people, mostly.
  • Finding simple solutions to complex problems.
  • Experimenting with new technologies.
  • Breaking things, sometimes not on purpose.

Areas of Expertise

  • ๐Ÿ“ฑ Mobile Development with Flutter
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Data Visualization with D3.js
  • ๐ŸŒน UI/UX Design and Prototyping with Figma
  • ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป Front-End Development with React. Getting back into it after years of Flutter/mobile dev
  • ๐Ÿ’พ Back-end Development with NodeJS and FastAPI. Learning Go because apparently I'm not a "real developer"
  • ๐Ÿง  Vibe-coding. Yes, you can be an expert at this. Have you heard of Gstack? It's like God mode (iykyk)

Work Experience

  • Founding Engineer at Mine Financial, a fintech startup in New York (YC S21). I built the Mine app from scratch and have since owned the full consumer-facing surface โ€” mobile app, web, and paywalls. I designed and built several critical full-stack systems across Mine's foundation, including KYC, subscriptions, card switching, and credit monitoring, as well as the attribution pipelines that helped Mine scale to over 1 million users. Most recently, I led the frontend for the Mine rebrand, spend tracking, and the new Marketplace, and built MoneyGPT, Mine's AI-powered personal finance agent.
  • I am also a Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow in the 2021 Cohort
  • Worked as a Frontend Developer at Nearside, another fintech 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 Android, and tasted the so called "golden handcuffs".
  • 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 cough was building logistics solutions such as carpooling and on demand delivery services in Nairobi. The edge was context and integration into local systems. We thought Uber was cooked at the time. But they rigged the game and paid to play. Booo!
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 (Margot Robbie ๐Ÿ˜), The Dark Knight and Iron Man.
  • Favorite Series: Avatar - The Last Air Bender, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones (Before season 8) and Prison Break (Season 1 was peak, ngl). I also binge sitcoms ie Big Bang Theory, Modern Family
  • Favorite sports: Rugby, Motorsports and Football (Soccer). Usually I'm rooting for the underdog
  • I write sometimes. Here's my substack. Thoughts are my own

Let's connect and chat!

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