Patrick Nyakoria Email & Phone Number

Remote

Kenya

• Singlehandedly designed and developed the first Stawika Mobile Lending platform that included the Android app and backend with successful launch in May 2017 attracting more than 2000 user downloads within 1 month and getting first investor funding in September 2017. • Made key software decisions on getting a software vendor for Stawika Capital Limited that helped scaled the platform managing to achieve > 100k users that achieved 10% return on investor investment every month. • Identified and interviewed the engineering lead and software developers which has reduced software cost by 40% and reducing technical support turnaround time to within same day resolution. • Continues owning Stawika Android app with > 200k downloads and average rating of 4.4, reviewing all code, doing updates and managing the app.• Technologies: Android (Java), Spring boot (Java), MySQL, PostgreSQL

Nairobi

• Designed and developed Stokisha mobile based B2B lending platform comprising an Android app and a spring boot based back end managing to launch a minimum viable product within 8 months complete with a loan management system and mobile payments. • Build and owned engineering hiring process and grew the team from 1 to 5 helping deliver 4 times more features• Moved Stokisha platform to Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform and implemented logging, tracing and monitoring which made managing the platform easy to manage and able to scale based on demand to handle peak traffic of 500 request per second. • Technologies: Spring boot (Java and Kotlin), Android (Java), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, GCP logging, monitoring and tracing, bitbucket pipelines

Kenya

• Designed and developed a log and monitoring portal that increased channel revenues by > 10% • Delivered Jamii Bora Bank and Sidian Bank internet banking portal using C# .net MVC framework learned in a month, which had better performance and easy to maintain compared to C# web form used before.• Technologies used: C# .net MVC framework, MSSQL

Kenya

• Build QuickPay Android app that was published in less than three months, reducing expected delivery time by half• Learned Java Spring framework in a month and helped reduce back-end backlog for QuickPay project with projected delivery reducing by half• Used Android (Java), Spring boot, MySQL

Nairobi, Kenya

• Developed Hoovi, Tafrija, Fresh n’ Easy Android mobile app using Material Design and delivered within the agreed timelines. • Used Android (Java), Material design