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- Pioneered the design and implementation of critical features, empowering over 10K users to seamlessly access learning content, both online and offline, enhancing user engagement by 40%.- Played a key role in a cross-functional agile team, driving collaborative efforts in development, deployment, and troubleshooting, resulting in a 25% acceleration in project delivery timelines.- Led a transformative initiative to fortify the app's test suite, elevating coverage from 0% to a commendable 78%. Simultaneously, enhanced code maintainability metrics, elevating the score from a C to a top-tier A rating as gauged by CodeClimate.- Introduced CI/CD to testing and deployment of Seably’s Android app, reducing testing and roll out efforts significantly and improving confidence to the business & stakeholders with each roll out.- Successfully upheld a stellar application stability record, with a remarkable 99.6% crash-free user rate consistently over the past 3 months, marking a 50% reduction in reported issues.Seably is a maritime LMS based in Göteborg, Sweden where i worked remotely.

- Directed the migration of 5 legacy apps from Java to Kotlin, resulting in a 30% improvement in application efficiency and a 25% reduction in maintenance efforts.- Engineered and maintained codebases for 4+ apps, ensuring 99.5% uptime and achieving a code reusability rate of 85% in both Java and Kotlin.- Achieved and sustained a 95%+ performance efficiency rate, guaranteeing peak application quality and responsiveness.- Successfully detected and resolved over 150 critical bottlenecks in a year, enhancing user experience and reducing crash rates by 40%.- Led a Mobile Team of 4 members, collaborating with Product and Design teams to launch 8 innovative products & features over a 12-month period.- Championed marketing and user experience strategies, escalating mobile app adoption from zero to an outstanding 300k downloads within 18 months, marking a 600% year-over-year growth rate.

- Integrated Bluetooth scanning functionality into 2 major mobile apps, expanding utility and garnering positive feedback from 90% of users.- Introduced CI/CD into our workflows improving developer efficiency by 30%.- Improved key metrics such as user engagement, retention rates, and conversion rates througheffective feature development and optimization.- Contributed to the Android community through blog posts, open-source projects andparticipating in forums like Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/users/4209724/steve-kamau).

- Developing and maintaining Copia’s native Android applications (two at that time).- Participating in understanding customer requirements, and brainstorming sessions.- Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders to design and implement softwaresolutions that meet customer requirements.

Android Developer with the following tasks:- Designed and developed advanced applications for the Android platform.- Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.- Bug fixing and improving application performance.- Implemented NFC to read and write on NFC tags and other RFID compatible chipsI was Co-founder of Duka. Duka, previously named "ShopOfficer", participated in the SME Empowerment Innovation Challenge of 2015 organized by HiiL Innovating Justice. We came out third (https://www.hiil.org/news/innovating-justice-forum-2015-shaping-new-justice-innovations/) and secured an investment (https://techtrendske.co.ke/2016/02/11/justice-tech-shopofficer-receives-10000-grant-from-hiil-innovating-justice/) to channel to our mission of promoting transparency and accountability in small businesses. Read our story here: https://www.f6s.com/duka-io . However, we eventually found out the product was too early for the market with minimal smartphone adoption but i gained great insight to user’s adoption and market dynamics.