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.
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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
Africa Digital Skills Conference '20
Using Offline Tech to Build Online Businesses
Google Developer Student Clubs
Africa's Talking x Kenyatta University
Facebook + Andela: Build For SDG Challenge
The Future of Communication and Payment APIs
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