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Star Contributor of the Month – Yu Wati Nyi

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We are pleased to recognize Yu as the Mifos Star Contributor in this April 2026 edition of Star Contributor of the Month. Yu has been selected has been a stand-out contributor for her work on the new command processing module. She was quick to volunteer for the task and her code submissions have been exemplary requiring very few changes at Peer Review. Yu has been a strong member of the community since joining as an intern last year. Last year Yu worked on Credit Bureau Integration as part of GSOC.

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Star Contributor of the Month – Craig Rosario

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We are pleased to recognize Craig as the Mifos Star Contributor in this March 2026 edition of Star Contributor of the Month. Craig has been a stand-out contributor for front-end web development since he came to the community as an aspiring intern last year. Craig demonstrated his strong design and development skills through the successful completion of his GSOC internship last year building out the Modular version of the Mifos X web app UI using React and ShadCN components. This flexible solution improves the overall developer experience enabling developers to rapidly build applications and user experiences tailored to specific fintech use cases and scenarios. Since GSOC, Craig has been an active community member and most recently has gone above and beyond by helping to design and build a number of dashboards and application flows to support the community to digitize VSLAs, Savings Groups, and other forms of savings-led financial inclusion. Give a big shout out to Craig and start to build your app using his solution from GSOC – he loves to see what he’s built get used in production!

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Star Contributor of the Month – Jay Soni

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We are pleased to recognize Jay as the Mifos Star Contributor in this February 2026 edition of Star Contributor of the Month. Jay Soni has been an active contributor to the Mifos X Web App, consistently contributing to resolve issues in the angular-base application, enhancing the usability and stability of the web interface by fixing UI inconsistencies, addressing functional bugs, and improving frontend components within the Mifos X Webapp application including bringing back features available in the old Mifos X Community App. Thanks to his efforts, Jay has helped to maintain the quality of the codebase and supported the continuous evolution of the Mifos Web App platform used by financial institutions around the world. His contributions (he is the author of nearly 200 PRs thqt have been merged in the repository), and he has demonstrated active engagement with the open-source community and a commitment to strengthening the open source tools that power digital financial inclusion.

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Star Contributor of the Month – Shubham Kumar

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We are pleased to recognize Shubham as the Mifos Star Contributor in this January 2026 edition of Star Contributor of the Month. Shubham has been an outstanding contributor over the past month. Although relatively new to the Mifos Initiative Shubham has quickly integrated with a number of different project teams, identified ways he can assist and made changes. He has been excellent in picking up on best practice that can be adopted across our repos such as the updating and improvement of our contribution guides and the addition of correct text across all existing files showing our licence. The discipline, rigor, structure, and ongoing momentum that Shubham has brought came at a critical time, helping us as we are trying to improve some of the governance and consistency across our GitHub instance. Shubham has been nominated by a number of members of the community that have been working with him and recognised his exemplar characteristics and behaviours. We look forwards to continuing working with Shubham across the community and his commit rate has set a new target to be beaten by other contributors. Well done Shubham for a well deserved Star Contributor award.

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