Hi, I’m Christopher Kinyua, a staff-level founding engineer focused on building consumer products from zero to scale. I designed and built Mine (formerly Fizz) from the ground up, delivering a mobile app (Flutter) and a web platform, with features like KYC, subscription billing, credit monitoring, and an AI-powered personal finance agent (MoneyGPT) that helps users manage spending and build credit. I’ve scaled product usage to 1M+ users across 300+ university campuses and led a company-wide rebrand and frontend refresh. I’m a Harvard CS graduate (Class of 2021) and a Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow, with deep fintech experience in payments and a passion for AI-driven product design. I thrive in high-autonomy, founding-team environments and enjoy turning ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable software.

Christopher Kinyua

Hi, I’m Christopher Kinyua, a staff-level founding engineer focused on building consumer products from zero to scale. I designed and built Mine (formerly Fizz) from the ground up, delivering a mobile app (Flutter) and a web platform, with features like KYC, subscription billing, credit monitoring, and an AI-powered personal finance agent (MoneyGPT) that helps users manage spending and build credit. I’ve scaled product usage to 1M+ users across 300+ university campuses and led a company-wide rebrand and frontend refresh. I’m a Harvard CS graduate (Class of 2021) and a Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow, with deep fintech experience in payments and a passion for AI-driven product design. I thrive in high-autonomy, founding-team environments and enjoy turning ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable software.

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Hi, I’m Christopher Kinyua, a staff-level founding engineer focused on building consumer products from zero to scale. I designed and built Mine (formerly Fizz) from the ground up, delivering a mobile app (Flutter) and a web platform, with features like KYC, subscription billing, credit monitoring, and an AI-powered personal finance agent (MoneyGPT) that helps users manage spending and build credit. I’ve scaled product usage to 1M+ users across 300+ university campuses and led a company-wide rebrand and frontend refresh.

I’m a Harvard CS graduate (Class of 2021) and a Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow, with deep fintech experience in payments and a passion for AI-driven product design. I thrive in high-autonomy, founding-team environments and enjoy turning ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable software.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Staff Engineer at Mine (formerly Fizz)
February 1, 2022 - Present
Led the end-to-end development of a consumer-focused fintech platform, including mobile and web experiences, KYC/identity verification, subscription billing, card switching, credit monitoring, marketing attribution, and the MoneyGPT AI agent. Owned the consumer-facing codebase and drove the rebrand from Fizz to Mine, delivering a scalable architecture used by 1M+ users across 300+ university campuses.
Software Engineering Intern at Meta (Facebook)
June 1, 2019 - August 1, 2019
Contributed to production-quality software in a large-scale environment, gaining experience with distributed systems and performance-oriented engineering practices.
Software Engineering Intern at Meta (Facebook)
June 1, 2020 - August 1, 2020
Further contributed to scalable software projects during another internship rotation, reinforcing fundamentals in large-scale systems.
College Tutor, Computer Science Department at Harvard University
August 1, 2018 - November 1, 2019
Tutored students in Human-Computer Interaction, Autonomous Robot Systems, Data Visualization, and Introduction to Programming, helping undergraduates grasp core CS concepts.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Harvard University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2021
Computer Science at AIT-Budapest
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2020

Qualifications

Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow
April 1, 2021 - April 3, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education