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United States

• Successfully developed a new payment system from scratch to a group of 1K+ hotels in order to help 100k+ guests to make reservations.
• Developed a new feature to make reservations and booking automatically using a web interface. reducing booking time by 50%.
• Created an application that verifies the identity of the hotel guests, reducing fraud by 10%.
• Maintaining the application services and making sure uptime is at least 99.999%.
• Collaborating with an international team of 5 developers.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Developed a set of services that performed a summarized analysis of any financial statement within 60 seconds.
• Successfully developed an enterprise API service that booked the first $1k of company revenue.Supported 1K+ customers with issues related to the applications, improving customer's access significantly.
• Planned the team sprint tasks every two weeks by collaborating with the CTO and product manager, saving time and increasing productivity 15%.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Created a config based module to parse and scrub private information from service logs, that helped the service to achieve 100% GDPR compliance.
• Skillfully handled on-call issues within 95%+ of service SLAs.
• Upgraded system components monthly to ensure security standards.

United States

• Refactored Node.js microservices leading to 99.99% service up-time.
• Successfully led the migration to a NoSQL based database storage that led to 70% monthly cloud costs saving.
• Scaled the Node.js microservice to handle 1000 events / minute. I also introduced Redis as a distributed lock.
• Monitored system server usage to reduce budget, saving budget by 20%.

Kenya

• Designed & implemented V1 and scaled the service that supported about 100,000 sales orders / month.
• Implemented realtime sales reports using HTML and SQL leading to a 25% increase in monthly orders.
• Automated payments using a mobile money integration leading to a 20% rise in monthly collections.
• Setup and monitored application servers on GCP and ensured service availability met the 99.99% target.

Kenya

• Designed and developed the back-end to handle 1 million concurrent requests.
• Managed Linux application servers and ensured availability was at least 99.999%.
• Maintained critical legacy applications by implementing new feature requests leading to 90%+ KPI goal achievement.

Bsc, Computer Science

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