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Nairobi County, Kenya

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

- Attained compliance with data protection and localization regulations leading to seamless cross-continental expansion by porting the platform to .NET 6 and containerizing all services to achieve hybrid cloud support.- Massively improved system scalability by refactoring the platform with infrastructure abstractions to achieve hosting and backing services agnosticism.- Achieved zero-downtime on deployments by implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines.

Nairobi, Kenya

- Achieved near doubling in sales volumes due to quicker checkouts and deliveries by rebuilding the system on .NET 5 with the Event Driven Design Pattern.- Reduced support and maintenance expenditure on delivery assets by utilizing Azure IoT services to provide asset telemetry for visibility and delivery route planning.- Saved the company expenditure on checkout settlement by building an internal payments and settlements bridge that seamlessly integrated internal accounting systems with external payments service providers like M-Pesa.

Nairobi, Kenya

- Quadrupled the company bottom-line by re-engineering the product offering model from stand-alone on-site installations to SaaS by developing and successfully implementing a gradual cloud adoption framework.- Significantly improved customer sentiment and overall satisfaction by porting the system to .NET Core using Domain Driven Design principles, which improved performance, scalability and ease of maintenance.- Significantly saved on the engineering operations budget by introducing and implementing CI/CD, which also improved the product shipping cycle time by enabling atomic releases.

Nairobi, Kenya

- Saved my team significant man hours in the platform rewrite project from Visual Fox Pro to .NET by taking charge of R&D, which helped us complete the baseline rewrite within 6 months.- Doubled system sales by taking individual initiative to develop the mobile banking module that became the key core banking solution selling point.- Elevated the company's standing as a serious player in the local fintech and value added services provision scene by leading platform integration with mobile payments gateways and third-party value added services providers.

Nairobi, Kenya

- Utilised online courses and mentorship from senior technical team members to learn the fundamentals and principles of programming and system design. Gained practical experience from first-hand application of the skills acquired as a support engineer handling support tickets from company clients.- Leveraged my polished communication and technical writing skills to lead the systems documentation initiative that informed product pitches and new customer onboarding. This significantly saved the company new customer onboarding costs, and helped us onboard two new clients within a month.- Learnt the basics of workplace etiquette, cross-functional team collaboration and overall workplace accountability. This helped me nail my first professional contract as a full-time Software Engineer at the company to work on core systems migration to the .Net tech stack.

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