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Nairobi County, Kenya

• Offering stock financing to SMEs in Kenya through USSDKey Achievements:
• Designed and implemented a reducing balance loan model which resulted in significant growth.
• Enhanced infrastructure observability by creating monitoring dashboards and Cloud Watch alarms.
• Migrated infrastructure to Terraform, efficiently provisioning compute resources.
• Remodeled the CI/CD pipeline using Gitlab CI to improve build times and ship new features faster

Nairobi, Kenya

• Fostering trust in social commerce by providing escrow services.Key achievements:
• Lead bi-weekly scrum meetings, resulting in rapid iteration of new features.
• Produced comprehensive API documentation for public and internal use.
• Incorporated Google Cloud messaging to facilitate push-notifications.
• Leveraged RabbitMQ to queue and batch process memory intensive and background tasks.
• Participated in pitching to investors at networking events.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Building cloud-native financial micro-services targeting digital credit providers.Key achievements:
• Built an admin dashboard to visualize and gain insights on various business performance metrics.
• Reduced infrastructure replication overhead in different environments by use of Helm charts.
• Utilized gRPC and API Gateways (Krakend) to improve inter-service communication.
• Maintained a high level of code craftsmanship through code reviews and peer programming sessions.

Master Of Information Systems Security

Bachelor Of Informatics And Computer Science, Computer Science