Gideon Gitau Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

I work as a Full-stack Developer in the Content Creation team. We are responsible for creating and maintaining a platform used for curriculum development by 2U’s clients.I previously worked closely with the Finance Team at 2U and other stakeholders to gather requirements, discuss them with my team to form workable user stories that are ready to be implemented by developers.- Rewrote parts of the Content Creation Front end from Angular 1.7 to ReactJs- Architected, designed and implemented large parts of a Capital Expenses Managementapplication. - NodeJs, Express, PostgreSQL, ReactJs- Normalized the database and rewrote some modules to make the application more efficient.- Worked on adding extra security to the application by implementing SSO using Onelogin andActive Directory.- Helped in moving the application from Heroku to AWS and Kubernetes. - I constantly reviewed work from fellow developers and provided guidance when necessary.

Nairobi

Andela extends engineering teams with world-class software developers. We recruit the most talented developers on the African continent, shape them into technical leaders, and place them as full-time distributed team members with companies that range from Microsoft and IBM to dozens of high-growth startups. Backed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV (Google Ventures) and Spark Capital, Andela is building the next generation of global technology leaders.- I partnered closely with product and design teams to translate UX and visual designs into code and to ensure that the view layer of the applications is highly reusable.- Contributed to developing a culture of testing and quality within the team. I was able tohelp raise products test coverage from sometimes 0% to up to over 80% coverage.- I led and participated in Product Architecture discussions to make and drive technicaldecisions. I also led product management and engineering teams in the breaking downand allocation of work during sprint planning sessions.- Participated in code review sessions and provided feedback to increase code efficiency,maintainability and robustness.- Supported and debugged production level issues and provided fixes in a timely manner.- Provided mentorship to junior developers.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Collaborated in building a custom frontend library of reusable components using React.- Rewrote part (about 1/3) of the Starcity web platform from ClojureScript to React.- Helped improve the UX of the product resulting in up to a 40% increase in membershipenrollments.- Greatly improved the data flow and performance of the application by using technologiessuch as Apollo to manage state.

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

- Worked closely with fellow engineers to build complex integrations with multiple external APIs (Airbnb, Bookings.com, Agoda).- Worked on debugging production issues and writing hot-fixes to keep the platform running. I did this often by refactoring buggy code and adding tests. - Refactored legacy code into easy-to-maintain micro-services. This also helped in streamlining deployment and as a result we were able to do weekly deploys from a previous monthly deploys.- Worked on improving the UI/UX of the platform by implementing designs and building reusable web components.