Brian Birir Email & Phone Number

Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi

• Interfacing with Andela's clients to understand their business, goals and visions forproducts being supported by an Andela Team whilst providing quality software engineering services.As a senior software engineer, my.
• Provide excellent software engineering services to Wellio Inc, an Andela partner based in San Francisco, California that has built a food intelligent platform which helps home chefs to plan and prepare home cooked.
• A majority of software engineers that I have assessed have been promoted to various engineering levels

San Francisco, California, United States

• A full-stack software engineer (remote) working on the Meal Hero app, specifically on the shopping list feature of the product. Meal Hero is a mobile app that enables home chefs to build meal plans, discover recipes.
• As a full stack engineer within Wellio, I was able to lead the building of a prototype for the shopping list that enables users to match ingredients to products within the mobile app hence making it easy to identify.
• Sharing of technical discoveries with other engineers during a biweekly chapter meeting for the mobile app team. These chapter meetings are an educational session for engineers to learn new things from each other.
• I participated in the migration of version one of Meal Hero app from Angular (with Cordova & Ionic) to React Native. With the collaboration of the shopping list/e-commerce team and app-wide team, we were able to.
• I did several technical discovery activities for the shopping list/e-commerce team which helped inform the next steps for technical implementation

Kenya

As a supervisor, I lead a team of three people to manage the network operations center of the organization ensuring that the Moja network/ platform run by BRCK LTD. has high up time in order to provide uninterrupted internet services for the company's customers. In addition, I'm involved in the analysis of data generated by the Moja network routers in.

Kenya

• Development of a monitoring system that utilizes a dashboard interface to monitor the Moja network. This network encompasses BRCK WiFi routers deployed across the country in static locations and public transport.
• Facilitating communication between the product and the operations teams through identifying, raising and resolving faults and issues of incoming deliverables
• Development of documentation for the operations department that encompass maintenance/ technical support processes and standard operating procedures for deployment
• Collaborating with the organization's Chief Data Scientist in analysing data generated by the routers in order to understand user and device behaviour

Kenya

• In addition to my primary role as a software development engineer, I wore several hats to accomplish the company's goal of connecting Africa to the Internet:
• Technical lead for the Equity Affordable Satellite Strategy pilot project with additional roles in software development, technical support and project management that saw the deployment of 200 BRCK routers which.
• Development and implementation of a custom data analytics collection tool for the BRCK device to measure usage of the Equity project captive portal in order to provide insight on users usage of the project platform. In.
• Maintenance of the BRCK Cloud web application by improving user interface and clearing bugs
• Contributed to the ongoing development of the web application platform that runs on the BRCK WiFi routers that is used to access cached media content and the Internet
• Successful deployment of BRCK WiFi routers in Eastern rural Rwanda to provide free Internet access to the community

Nairobi, Riverside-Chiromo

* Web design and front-end development using HTML, CSS and Javascript for Drupal and Wordpress content management systems* Development of custom Drupal modules using PHP* User Interface design of websites using wireframe tools and graphic design tools such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator* Software configuration management using Git* Web server.

Web design, graphic design and Mobile application development for J2ME platform.

Jabavu Road, Hurlingham

My responsibilities included network administration, technical user support, graphic design, website design, procurement of computer equipment and end user training.

Spearheading a team of young people to create a website for our church

Learning various laboratory techniques used in scientific research.

Masters Of Science, Computer-Based Information Systems

Activities and Societies: NoneFor my masters dissertation I focused on developing a location-based service system that could be used as.

Certificate, Mobile Phone Application Programming Course

Activities and Societies: Platforms: JAVA & J2ME, PHP & MSQL, Dot Mobi, Flashlite, SMS Application

B.Sc, Biotechnology

Activities and Societies: Campus Life, Red Cross

Certificate, E-Commerce

Activities and Societies: Trained on how to use Dreamweaver 4.0 and MX for website development

Certificate, Computer Programming

Activities and Societies: Certificate in Computer Programming (Java and Visual Basic 6.0)

Basic It Concepts

Activities and Societies: Certificate in Microcomputer Applications (MS-Office and Internet Basics) Certificate in Hardware and Software.

Kenya Secondary Certificate Of Education, General Secondary/ High School Education

Activities and Societies: Subjects: Mathematics, Kiswahili, English, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Agriculture, Kenya Scouts.