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Nairobi County, Kenya

Nairobi County, Kenya

As a Technical Project Manager at Thunes, I spearhead the seamless onboarding and integration process for receiving partners on the outbound leg of the Pay solution.This involves managing projects, conducting requirements analysis for payout partner integrations, and monitoring the quality of service for existing partners in Africa.• Manage projects to ensure successful integration.• Conduct requirements analysis for payout partner integrations.• Monitor and Improve the… Show more As a Technical Project Manager at Thunes, I spearhead the seamless onboarding and integration process for receiving partners on the outbound leg of the Pay solution.This involves managing projects, conducting requirements analysis for payout partner integrations, and monitoring the quality of service for existing partners in Africa.• Manage projects to ensure successful integration.• Conduct requirements analysis for payout partner integrations.• Monitor and Improve the quality of service for existing partners. Show less

Nairobi County, Kenya

Owning up responsibilities and dynamics of the Digital Banking landscape, supporting pivotal teams that play an integral role in driving technological advancements across the continent. Which include: - Maintaining, Integrating, and scaling banking fund transfer services with financial switches i.e. NFS in ZM, Pesalink in Kenya, Wema and NIBBS in NG, and SIMO in MZ amoung others across Africa. - Enhancing the Mobile Banking Wallet solution for Banks across Africa on-premise and… Show more Owning up responsibilities and dynamics of the Digital Banking landscape, supporting pivotal teams that play an integral role in driving technological advancements across the continent. Which include: - Maintaining, Integrating, and scaling banking fund transfer services with financial switches i.e. NFS in ZM, Pesalink in Kenya, Wema and NIBBS in NG, and SIMO in MZ amoung others across Africa. - Enhancing the Mobile Banking Wallet solution for Banks across Africa on-premise and cloud instances with integrations to CoreBanking and Banking Channels i.e. Internet Banking, USSD, and Mobile App. - Actively involved in solution scoping, designing, and technical implementation of Banking Collections, Reconciliation, and Settlement solutions from an RFP stage to Golive. Show less

Nairobi County, Kenya

Serving as an Engineering Manager at Cellulant, overseeing a dynamic team of software engineers, and non-technical professionals.Achievements: - Engineered Payment links and Payment page products for merchants' collections on Mobile money and card payments and a Bill Manager product that supports Subscriptions and recurring payments.- Maintained and improved the Qos of Airtime, Data, and billers aggregation API services to merchants and banking customers, protecting Gross… Show more Serving as an Engineering Manager at Cellulant, overseeing a dynamic team of software engineers, and non-technical professionals.Achievements: - Engineered Payment links and Payment page products for merchants' collections on Mobile money and card payments and a Bill Manager product that supports Subscriptions and recurring payments.- Maintained and improved the Qos of Airtime, Data, and billers aggregation API services to merchants and banking customers, protecting Gross Recurring Revenue GRR.- Organized a productive and effective data-driven product team that poses extreme ownership and accountability through consistent processes and practices.Responsibilities: - Responsible for leading and managing cross-functional development teams, ensuring the successful delivery of software solutions.- Collaborating closely with stakeholders to define project requirements, establish timelines, and align development efforts with strategic objectives.- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to team members, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.- Drive technical excellence, promote best practices, and optimize software development processes. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

Achievements: - Conducted the migration of a Legacy Payment Gateway Platform to the Cloud (AWS) for African markets with a team of 6 engineers.- Upgraded 100+ legacy integration applications to cloud-native microservices running on Apache Camel and SpringBoot through a rebuild and rewrite activity.- Migrated an Agency Banking Platform in Nigeria to the Cloud (AWS).- Architectured a user-friendly, reliable, and scalable USSD Gateway Microservice Platform that supported the… Show more Achievements: - Conducted the migration of a Legacy Payment Gateway Platform to the Cloud (AWS) for African markets with a team of 6 engineers.- Upgraded 100+ legacy integration applications to cloud-native microservices running on Apache Camel and SpringBoot through a rebuild and rewrite activity.- Migrated an Agency Banking Platform in Nigeria to the Cloud (AWS).- Architectured a user-friendly, reliable, and scalable USSD Gateway Microservice Platform that supported the migration of USSD Menus.Responsibilities: - Technical Leadership and Decision Making.- Software Architecture, Documentation, Peer Code review, Testing (TDD), and implementation and Feature releases. - Scrum master- Conducting Sprint Planning, Review, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospects. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

Achievements: - Delivered integration assets for B2C and C2B payments with MNOs, Aggregators, and Banks across Africa. - Successfully integrated Global merchant channels for PayTvs, and Airtime services collections across Africa.- Collaborated in building USSD Menus, APIs, and Web Dashboards for managing customer requests and Transactions across Africa.Responsibilities: - Implement RESTful APIs’ and Complex Integrations microservices.- Designing, building, and… Show more Achievements: - Delivered integration assets for B2C and C2B payments with MNOs, Aggregators, and Banks across Africa. - Successfully integrated Global merchant channels for PayTvs, and Airtime services collections across Africa.- Collaborated in building USSD Menus, APIs, and Web Dashboards for managing customer requests and Transactions across Africa.Responsibilities: - Implement RESTful APIs’ and Complex Integrations microservices.- Designing, building, and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.- Fixed bugs, refactored features, and prototyped new ideas. Show less

Nairobi

Achievements: - Integrated Airtime and Bill payment services to MNOs, merchants, and Aggregators increasing the market footprint.- Deployed in African Markets to facilitate bank-to-mobile money transfer integrations.- Onboarded Global merchants and clients to the single API for Bill payments, Payouts, and checkout services.- Reduced API Integration time from 5 to 2 days by rolling out the first Online API documentation on Gitbooks with an inbuilt mock-up and… Show more Achievements: - Integrated Airtime and Bill payment services to MNOs, merchants, and Aggregators increasing the market footprint.- Deployed in African Markets to facilitate bank-to-mobile money transfer integrations.- Onboarded Global merchants and clients to the single API for Bill payments, Payouts, and checkout services.- Reduced API Integration time from 5 to 2 days by rolling out the first Online API documentation on Gitbooks with an inbuilt mock-up and FAQs.Responsibilities: - Merchants and customer onboarding and API integration support.- Created self-contained, reusable, and testable microservices and Integration Consumers.- Collaborated with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

Achievements: - Engineered the CoverApp Insur-tech Android and Web platforms from the ground up, with a dashboard for dynamically managing products and transactions reconciliation.- Collaborated in customer activations, pitching to investors, and onboarding new partners.Responsibilities: -Design, build, and test the Android App and Web Platform.https://www.coverappke.com/

Nairobi

Successfully created a Leave management platform and Checklist Reporting System serving 3,000 employee accounts, demonstrating my web development skills.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Software Engineering

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