Oswald Chisala Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

I am a triage engineer at Canary Tech, helping support our customers and resolve issues as they come up.

Athens, Ohio, United States

The Athens MHA is a local government authority tasked with providing affordable housing for low income families across the Athens County area. I am a software engineer (on contract) redoing the Athens MHA's website with React + typescript. The site's focus is on outreach, and will thus be optimized for SEO, web accessibility, responsiveness, and easy management through the Contentful CMS. Core technologies used are NextJS, Contentful, Go, AWS S3, and MongoDB.

Athens, Ohio, United States

I worked at the Eclipse Academy as a web developer on contract. I wrote and deployed an internal Dashboard using NextJS, Typescript, Go, Excelize, and the Google Calendar API. The dashboard reduced the time required to create session logs down from 2+ weeks to 3 seconds.

Athens, Ohio, United States

I am a contract developer at the Athens Central Hotel using React, Typescript, NextJS, NodeJS, and Golang to build our new production website from the ground up. I am also coding up an internal price analysis tool. I am also leading the website rewrite to improve our SEO and grow our web bookings.Whenever appropriate, I engage with customers as required (taking bookings, handling check-in, check-out, etc) as a front desk customer service rep.The hotel already has a remote team… Show more I am a contract developer at the Athens Central Hotel using React, Typescript, NextJS, NodeJS, and Golang to build our new production website from the ground up. I am also coding up an internal price analysis tool. I am also leading the website rewrite to improve our SEO and grow our web bookings.Whenever appropriate, I engage with customers as required (taking bookings, handling check-in, check-out, etc) as a front desk customer service rep.The hotel already has a remote team of developers that maintain our hotel management system, and it is my job to make sure our internal systems are consistent with their tools. I ensure that their APIs work with our website (eg. for hydrating room prices, etc).In my role, I am primarily building for the web. Show less

Remote

I am a technical co-founder at JobParty.co. JobParty is a live-streaming platform where anyone can live-stream their skills, get rated, matched, and pushed straight to interviews. As a full stack engineer at the startup, I am building both the frontend and backend of the site. My primary tools are nextJS, nodeJS, typescript, golang, and MongoDB. We're building fast and hope to have an MVP ready by the end of September 2022. In the meantime, you're welcome to join our waitlist over on… Show more I am a technical co-founder at JobParty.co. JobParty is a live-streaming platform where anyone can live-stream their skills, get rated, matched, and pushed straight to interviews. As a full stack engineer at the startup, I am building both the frontend and backend of the site. My primary tools are nextJS, nodeJS, typescript, golang, and MongoDB. We're building fast and hope to have an MVP ready by the end of September 2022. In the meantime, you're welcome to join our waitlist over on https://www.JobParty.co so I can let you know when the beta drops 😊🏆 Show less

Athens, Ohio, United States

Raba is an online, open-source multiplayer board-game based on the traditional African game, Morabaraba (12 Men Morris) that I used to play as a kid. I am coding the frontend with love using React-Typescript, and writing the backend with node-express-typescript. I am using Redis for server-side caching and web-sockets for realtime communication. The game is still under development but you can check it out on GitHub at ozzyfromspace/raba-web. If you want to try it, clone the main branch, yarn to… Show more Raba is an online, open-source multiplayer board-game based on the traditional African game, Morabaraba (12 Men Morris) that I used to play as a kid. I am coding the frontend with love using React-Typescript, and writing the backend with node-express-typescript. I am using Redis for server-side caching and web-sockets for realtime communication. The game is still under development but you can check it out on GitHub at ozzyfromspace/raba-web. If you want to try it, clone the main branch, yarn to build, and yarn dev to run the dev version in the browser on port 3000 by default. If you use Docker with VSCode Remote Containers, the .devcontainer config is already set up for you. I'll update this description as I make progress. Show less

Remote

Led the Figma design of the UI. Built the OAuth2 auth system and relevant APIs in node and integrated it into our React frontend. Setup our database strategy. Did the app testing.

Remote

Wrote a 3D simulation of debris orbiting Earth using Three-JS. Wrote an API to query and mutate mock data from a computer vision algorithm that one of my teammates wrote.

Lansing, Michigan Area

Meijer's a great company to work for. The team members I worked with kept us moving forward, and I grew substantially throughout my time there. I wish the store nothing but the best.

Michigan, United States

Developed a traffic-flow IR-blaster sensor using a custom circuit based on an Arduino micro-controller. Wrote code to transmit data via radio and implemented a wireless RF-LAN for multiple sensors to stay in sync.