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Tony Kimathi

Tony Kimathi

Senior Software Engineer | Open-Source Contributor

New York City, New York, United States

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Hi, I'm a Senior Software Engineer, previously at Microsoft, and an active open-source contributor. I'm passionate about building scalable software, contributing to open source, and sharing practical engineering insights.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js

Gen UI: Using AI in React

In this session, I will share how to use dynamic generative UI in React to render LLM text responses, incorporate MCP apps, and take advantage of AI to better your web app.

Make Your (React) Website Fast

In my work at Microsoft, I've learned a lot on how to optimize the performance of websites, especially React ones. I would love to share what I've learned along the way.

Learning Objectives:
- Identify bottlenecks your website may be facing
- Telemetry: use data to tell a story about your website
- Optimize performance: simple & advanced techniques you can use

Create Whatsapp bots in Node.js using Facebook's Whatsapp Cloud API

I'm the creator of the popular Node.js repo, Whatsapp Cloud API, with 200+ GitHub stars and more than 60,000+ total NPM downloads since creation. The repo is a Node.js library for creating bots and sending/receiving messages using Facebook's Whatsapp Cloud API.

In this session, I will walk you through how to use the API, create simple and complicated whatsapp bots, and much more.

Link to library: https://github.com/tawn33y/whatsapp-cloud-api

GDG Kenya DevFest 2022 Sessionize Event

November 2022 Nairobi, Kenya

Africa Digital Skills Conference '20

Using Offline Tech to Build Online Businesses

November 2020 Nairobi, Kenya

Google Developer Student Clubs

Africa's Talking x Kenyatta University

October 2020 Nairobi, Kenya

Facebook + Andela: Build For SDG Challenge

The Future of Communication and Payment APIs

September 2020 Nairobi, Kenya

Tony Kimathi

Senior Software Engineer | Open-Source Contributor

New York City, New York, United States

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