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Nairobi County, Kenya

Nairobi

• Joined the droidconeKe team as an open-source contributor for the android app which was meant to serve the first droidcon event in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Included picking up any available issues in the public repo and creating PRs.
• The project was built using Kotlin and firebase and had a new MVVM architecture.
• Since then, also worked on other droidconKe apps with major role being testing i.e ensuring the apps have proper test coverage for more stable apps.
• Technologies… Show more
• Technologies used to build this include:- Kotlin- Hilt- Ktor- MVVM architecture Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

• Took up leadership responsibilities involving guiding platform development for internal development.
• Handled a back-end lead role which involved overseeing the development of the backend APIs (Python & NodeJs/JavaScript).
• During this time, we worked on stabilizing the platform.
• We set up strict coding conventions and guidelines backed up by tooling.
• Improved the monitoring of our APIs by integrating with services such as Newrelic.
• This allowed us to better profile… Show more

Nairobi, Kenya

• Worked closely with another backend engineer to build the API using Fast API.
• The backend had an MVC architecture organized by feature to allow us to quickly pinpoint bugs and add new features.
• During the initial development, also took up the DevOps responsibility for the backend, first deploying the API on cloud-based servers on AWS using docker, before migrating it to a Kubernetes cluster (EKS).

Nairobi, Kenya

Remote

• Worked closely with Edx platform to produce custom flavors for different clients.
• Joined Open Craft, primarily worked on LabXchange.
• LabXchange is a global science classroom open to every curious mind.
• Created at Harvard University with support from the Amgen Foundation, this powerful digital tool makes high-quality science education accessible and gives learners and educators, everywhere, the courage to chart a.
• Involved maintenance… Show more
• Involved maintenance work and working on some new features. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

• Promoted to Head of Engineering to fill a vacant role.
• Around this time, the company was changing the direction of their business i.e from B2C focused to B2B focused.
• The first responsibility in new role was to identify any services that we use internally that could be converted into a SaaS.
• At the top of the list was our Identity service.
• In our applications, we needed to validate farmers before approving any of their loan requests.
• This involved checks against… Show more

Nairobi, Kenya

• Joined FarmDrive as lead engineer to work on their AGV Ussd application.
• The AGV Ussd App is an application built using Flask and Django meant to serve AGV farmers by providing them easy access to short-term loans.
• Also did maintenance for another SMS application built using Flask.
• Featured voice call support so it was the first time working with WebRTC.
• The USSD app was backed by an internal CRM (also built using Flask and Javascript) which helped track a lot of useful… Show more
• The USSD app was backed by an internal CRM (also built using Flask and Javascript) which helped track a lot of useful customer information such as customer acquisitions, loan profile health, identity verification and.

Nairobi

• As a software engineer in a consultancy firm, we were tasked with building a platform which would help an NGO be efficient in their data collection reporting operations.
• The NGO's process involved collecting data using Kobo toolbox on Android tablets or using physical forms which would later be transcribed onto Excel sheets.
• After that, they would have to clean the data from both sources, aggregate and generate reports.
• The process was really slow and inefficient.
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• Improved the process we built a reporting tool for collecting CSV/excel documents and Kobo toolbox.