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Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Served Kamilimu as a Professional Mentor in the 2021/2022 Programme, supporting mentees in Personal & Professional Development, Innovation & ICT

Nairobi, Kenya

• Overhauled existing legacy systems within the company to allow more efficient data processing flows for our customers
• Made significant improvements to internal tools used by developers, increasing team productivity by up to 7x
• Designed and oversaw the implementation of a data migration platform for over 17.8M customers across 3 countries
• Worked with other software engineers on the team globally to help design new systems by providing feedback, proposals & mentorship opportunities via code reviews, design document reviews, and peer feedback sessions

Nairobi, Kenya

• Built several software system integrations between Tala's internal systems as well as to other external partners to allow the company to serve its customers. Integrations to external partners included Vodacom Tanzania.
• Helped on-board team members to the Engineering teams, across management & individual contributor roles; I was further involved in working with these new team members to help them accomplish their goals in their first.
• Designed & implemented the software required to support a financial savings product that was rolled out to a few customers as part of an internal product test
• Worked closely with Customer Service teams to optimize workflows, by understanding their pain points, and working with them to provide solutions that increased their efficiency

Nairobi

• Ensured operational readiness of the company's core services and to allow the team to meet commitments to customers regarding availability and performance (SLAs)
• Analyzed fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solved them.
• Developed, implemented and encouraged best practices for the Engineering team. This happened as part of a broader effort to improve the Engineering Culture
• Developed and directed software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.
• Analyzed user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Designed, developed and modified software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Worked as a Python Software Developer to design & build back-end systems used for recruiting
• Optimized existing systems help the company scale operations
• Built software deployment pipelines (CI/CD) using Ansible

14 Riverside Drive, Nairobi

• Successfully integrated to the Safaricom Kenya MPESA B2C API, allowing the company's clients receive their bank transfers to their mobile wallets x239 faster (time down from 2 hours to 30 seconds)
• Built back-end software applications, including APIs to support Financial Technology operations for the business
• Worked in a DevOps capacity to provide infrastructure metrics to the business, enabling better decisions on where to optimize

-I.T SupportAccomplishments Implemented and refined LAN configuration and workstation set-up skills. Acquired basic Active Directory and DNS administration skills on Windows Server 2003 Standard. Acquired basic Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 administration and configuration skills on Windows Server 2008 Standard. Acquired knowledge of implementation and.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: SCOSIT Hackathon 2011 (Position 3 out of 19) - EasyPay,

O Level

Activities and Societies: Annual Congress on Science and Technology 2009 - Provincial Level, Annual Mathematics Congress, Journalism.