Joel Macharia Email & Phone Number

Kenya

Strategy, leadership, growth, partnerships and brand positioning. Drove improvements in production support, system monitoring, and diagnostic processes to drive customer satisfaction.Collaborated with IT teams to design and implement continuous process improvements to prevent production application incidents. Developed an automated infrastructure deployment platform with self-healing capabilities that was highly configurable to eliminate every repeatable manual… Show more Strategy, leadership, growth, partnerships and brand positioning. Drove improvements in production support, system monitoring, and diagnostic processes to drive customer satisfaction.Collaborated with IT teams to design and implement continuous process improvements to prevent production application incidents. Developed an automated infrastructure deployment platform with self-healing capabilities that was highly configurable to eliminate every repeatable manual process.Developed a hands-on customer engagement process where the turn around time for all customer related inquiries were addressed within a very short turnaround time.Ensured smooth transition of projects to production within the project life cycle. Want to reach out, send an email to hello@motisure.com or visit our website https://motisure.com Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

Leveraging IoT, data and telematics to take the repair and maintenance hassle out of mobility within a single ecosystem.MotiGuy is a mobility focused insuretech platform that leverages telematics to provide convenience for vehicle owners, fleets, asset financiers, insurance and mobility solution providers.We use a 4G OBDII GPS Tracker to provide data on maintenance & behavior, tracking, diagnostics and connect them to our ecosystem of garages, mechanics, towing and parts… Show more Leveraging IoT, data and telematics to take the repair and maintenance hassle out of mobility within a single ecosystem.MotiGuy is a mobility focused insuretech platform that leverages telematics to provide convenience for vehicle owners, fleets, asset financiers, insurance and mobility solution providers.We use a 4G OBDII GPS Tracker to provide data on maintenance & behavior, tracking, diagnostics and connect them to our ecosystem of garages, mechanics, towing and parts providers. Show less

Startup consulting services for various companies helping them hire and manage the tech team, build products, scale their tech/company, designing architectures, streamlining processes.Lead team in building an IaaS application that made it easy for startup software development companies to streamline their workflows and pipelines.Designed, integrated and managed Amazon Web Services cloud solutions. Provisioning of EC2 instances, built via ansible, and integrated in 5 time zones… Show more Startup consulting services for various companies helping them hire and manage the tech team, build products, scale their tech/company, designing architectures, streamlining processes.Lead team in building an IaaS application that made it easy for startup software development companies to streamline their workflows and pipelines.Designed, integrated and managed Amazon Web Services cloud solutions. Provisioning of EC2 instances, built via ansible, and integrated in 5 time zones. (Amazon RDS, VPC construction, Security Group policies, IAM, Route 53, CloudFormation, S3, Glacier, OpsWorks)Built farm environment and workflow management and administration using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence, and various target build environments on Linux.Successfully managed test and production catalogs and writing reusable modules for use in configuration management on Ansible.Designed and implemented integrated build pipelines using continuous integration workflows such as Bitbucket pipelines, Jira, Go.CD, Jenkins, Docker.Dashboard configuration for metrics and performance measurement using Graphite and monitoring via Datadog and Monit.Cloud infrastructure design and implementation on Openstack, as well as deployment and customization using OSAD. Show less

Kenya

Lead Team in building a blue collar recruitment system that allowed blue collar workers get employment through the system.Led and interacted extensively with developers, quality assurance engineers, and project teams regarding scheduling, requirements, design, implementation, testing, and support.Managed the engineering team, led daily scrums (stand-ups), performed weekly code reviews and provided feedback on quarterly performance reviews.Continually reviewed Haba Haba… Show more Lead Team in building a blue collar recruitment system that allowed blue collar workers get employment through the system.Led and interacted extensively with developers, quality assurance engineers, and project teams regarding scheduling, requirements, design, implementation, testing, and support.Managed the engineering team, led daily scrums (stand-ups), performed weekly code reviews and provided feedback on quarterly performance reviews.Continually reviewed Haba Haba engineering systems and devops activities to identify bottlenecks and improve the teams throughput.Participated in the ideation and design of the products offerings, revamping and enhancements of existing systems. Converted the product vision into user stories, prioritized the product backlog based on the corporate strategy, and worked with the SCRUM teams to convert the stories into product features.Implemented processes and tools required by every department to ensure smooth running of the business.Met regularly with CEO to review progress towards milestones, task throughput, blockers that needed escalations and tech team’s KPIs. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

Worked as part of the support and infrastructure management team. Lead deployment of USSD based applications for Airtel Africa built using Python on RHEL servers with Oracle 11g databases.Set up and configured Red-hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu Linux platforms.Implemented a high availability environment with a multiple fail-over architecture.Worked on defects, bugs (troubleshooting), change requests, to applications in production. Assessed impact of changes and made… Show more Worked as part of the support and infrastructure management team. Lead deployment of USSD based applications for Airtel Africa built using Python on RHEL servers with Oracle 11g databases.Set up and configured Red-hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu Linux platforms.Implemented a high availability environment with a multiple fail-over architecture.Worked on defects, bugs (troubleshooting), change requests, to applications in production. Assessed impact of changes and made recommendations of the best approach to each.(JIRA)Saved resources(human and time) by developing an automated infrastructure deployment platform using Ansible.Focused on automation, integration, monitoring and configuration management.Wrote technical documentation on processes and SOP s. (Confluence) Show less

Mini-Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Cert, Eprom

Part of the Entrepreneurial programming and research on mobiles focused on computer vision using AI to enable the cameras have up to 1.

Bsc. Computer Science, Computer Science

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science