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Nairobi County, Kenya

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Retail banking platform development- Managed and coached a full stack team of 15+ people across 2 squads, entailing code review, implementation guidance and coaching on both FE and BE.- Led BE and FE technical refinement sessions with PO and design teams- Facilitated PO team to collaborate with other departments to obtain technical info needed to complete development- Set up and actively built 10+ microservices with NestJS and Typescript- Set up observability with… Show more Retail banking platform development- Managed and coached a full stack team of 15+ people across 2 squads, entailing code review, implementation guidance and coaching on both FE and BE.- Led BE and FE technical refinement sessions with PO and design teams- Facilitated PO team to collaborate with other departments to obtain technical info needed to complete development- Set up and actively built 10+ microservices with NestJS and Typescript- Set up observability with OpenTelemetry across all BE services- Created API and business logic documentation with Docusaurus, Mermaid and OpenAPI specifications- Formulated a feature review process involving QA, product and design teams, that reduced friction between the dev team and other stakeholders while improving feature quality delivered at the end of the sprint. This increased the number of features successfully closed at the end of the sprint by 20%.IoT dashboard development- Implemented SSO with Azure in production by creating a proof of concept then implementing it in production by modifying the codebase of 4 existing apps (both backend and frontend, JS stack), coordinating every step from inception to production with business and technical stakeholders.- Created documentation as well as a sequence diagrams of the authentication flow- Built additional features such as graphs and tables to visualise data by modifying front-end and back-end code across 2 different projects- Provided updates and bugfixes on frontend and backend across 5 code repositories in JS and Python Show less

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

- Planned, built and supported 8+ complex features into the back-end of the core fintech platform such as payment allocation using payment codes, bulk messaging, late fees, query caching, financial audit logs, to name a few, with accompanying automated code tests.- Managed and coached 5 other engineers by giving them technical support, assigning them tasks and reviewing their work.- Providing root cause analysis, technical support and bug fixes to various issues raised on the core… Show more - Planned, built and supported 8+ complex features into the back-end of the core fintech platform such as payment allocation using payment codes, bulk messaging, late fees, query caching, financial audit logs, to name a few, with accompanying automated code tests.- Managed and coached 5 other engineers by giving them technical support, assigning them tasks and reviewing their work.- Providing root cause analysis, technical support and bug fixes to various issues raised on the core financial platform. This led to a 50% reduction in related support tickets.- Interviewing and reviewing software engineering candidates within the recruitment process.- Key tools and technologies that I used: NodeJS, Postgres, MongoDB, Mifos, Sentry, Metabase, GCP, AWS. Show less

Kigali City, Rwanda

- Built an ETL data pipeline to process unstructured data from 100+ web pages, which involved data schema modeling while ensuring optimized query performance and scalability.- Setup of 9+ infrastructure services needed for the software stack on AWS as well as open source tools i.e. ElasticBeanstalk, EC2, RDS, S3, Docker, Sentry, e.t.c.- Back-end development of core software system offered by the company and was involved in the setup and implementation of data models as well as both API… Show more - Built an ETL data pipeline to process unstructured data from 100+ web pages, which involved data schema modeling while ensuring optimized query performance and scalability.- Setup of 9+ infrastructure services needed for the software stack on AWS as well as open source tools i.e. ElasticBeanstalk, EC2, RDS, S3, Docker, Sentry, e.t.c.- Back-end development of core software system offered by the company and was involved in the setup and implementation of data models as well as both API creation and integration.- Key tools and technologies that I used: Python + Django, Postgres, Foundry, Metabase, Sentry, Metabase, Matomo, AWS. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

- Full-stack development of a JS based factory monitoring and management system that collected real-time data from 200+ meters in 50+ factories across Kenya and the US.- Creation and management of ETL data pipelines that processed up to 1 TB of data a month and performed both scheduled and real-time calculations in an event-driven architecture.- Developed an automated email reporting tool which eliminated their manual creation. This improved team efficiency by freeing up ~48hrs of work… Show more - Full-stack development of a JS based factory monitoring and management system that collected real-time data from 200+ meters in 50+ factories across Kenya and the US.- Creation and management of ETL data pipelines that processed up to 1 TB of data a month and performed both scheduled and real-time calculations in an event-driven architecture.- Developed an automated email reporting tool which eliminated their manual creation. This improved team efficiency by freeing up ~48hrs of work per week.- Architecture design and code quality (review) checks for various components of the overall factory monitoring system.- Part of a remote-first team with members distributed across Kenya, Argentina and the US.- Key tools and technologies that I used: Vue.js, Node.js, Postgres, Docker, Sentry, Metabase, Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Show less

London Area, United Kingdom

- I worked as a full-stack developer, creating a survey-based product from the ground up.- Built a web-based form builder application with various user permission levels.- Built an android app with Google maps integration to collect form responses and provide real-time geolocation tracking.- Key technologies I used were Node.js, Android, HTML, CSS, JS, MongoDB and several libraries and API services to create a mobile app, some web apps and a robust REST API.

HENGA is an I.T. company specializing in web and mobile applications development (www.henga.co)- I built multiple android mobile apps for clients, taking their ideas from concept to playstore.- Some android apps I built from the ground up include a real-time geolocation tracker, a task organizer and a ride hailing and package delivery mobile app.- Some web apps I built from the ground up include e-commerce websites, an e-learning platform, a rent invoicing and payment reconciliation… Show more HENGA is an I.T. company specializing in web and mobile applications development (www.henga.co)- I built multiple android mobile apps for clients, taking their ideas from concept to playstore.- Some android apps I built from the ground up include a real-time geolocation tracker, a task organizer and a ride hailing and package delivery mobile app.- Some web apps I built from the ground up include e-commerce websites, an e-learning platform, a rent invoicing and payment reconciliation system and an appointment booking and patient data recording platform.- Full-stack development of web applications with Bootstrap.js, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP and Node.js- Website development with WordPress and Drupal - Designed and setup server architecture on bare metal servers (Digital Ocean) as well as serverless environments (GCP and AWS)- Key technologies I worked with are Javascript, Node.js, PHP, Android, MySQL, MongoDB, WordPress and Drupal Show less

Southampton, United Kingdom

I worked as a front-end developer extending the functionality on their e-commerce platform. Technologies I worked with are Django, Python, Jinja and Javascript.

Nairobi, Kenya

- Intelipro Ltd (www.intelipro.co) is a data science startup that aims to provide value to businesses through data driven decisioning and mostly targets the retail and financial sectors.- I built a number of pilot mobile and web applications from scratch with the following programming languages and tools: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (and JQuery), Android, HTML and CSS.

Nairobi, Kenya

Working in the Global Growth Operations department under the IT infrastructure team.

Nairobi, Kenya

Worked with asset management and tech support.

Port Louis, Mauritius

I handled website design, created an e-learning platform and designed a mobile application for the Global Rainbow Foundation.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Salsa Club Specialized in Data Science. Technologies I worked with are Javascript, Node.js, Python, Cassandra.

Bachelor Of Business Information Technology, Information Technology, 2Nd Class Upper

Activities and Societies: Strathmore University Media Group, AIESEC Specialized in Database Administration. Technologies I worked with are.

High School, Kcse

Activities and Societies: Tennis, Choir