Athlone,
Ireland
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GMT )
About
Energetic, versatile professional with 6+ years of experience building elegant applications. Exceptional design skills combined with the ability to drive user-centric solutions, define strategy, and lead innovation. A working understanding of both legacy and modern engineering architectures and patterns. Outstanding colleague distinguished for exceptional communication skills and ability to effectively build key partner
Energetic, versatile professional with 6+ years of experience building elegant applications. Exceptional design skills combined with the ability to drive user-centric solutions, define strategy, and lead innovation. A working understanding of both legacy and modern engineering architectures and patterns. Outstanding colleague distinguished for exceptional communication skills and ability to effectively build key partner
Experience
[React, Typescriypt, Django, Flask, USSD]
- Develop core backend API in python with Django
- Develop third party integration API in FastAPI for telecoms to connect to the LimboPay platform
- Built limbopay website and user dashboard
[React, Python, Tornado, AngularJS, DynamoDB]
- Improved the admin journal download experience
- Built out specific components of the CSV bulk data tool which helps users to download and update data in bulk
- Fixed longstanding bugs.
- Introduced Kahoot for our remote hangouts!
[Javascript, React]
- Built the new people search feature that assists users to assess the risk of doing business with particular individuals
- Built out specific components of the new design of the search results page that shows a user the results of an entity search on the platform
- Contributed to the new analytics component of the entity profile page.
[Python, Flask, Django, Docker, Github, JavaScript, React, AWS, NestJS] Collaborate with peers and stakeholders in fast-paced distributed teams.
- Coached and mentored dynamic engineering teams, boosting operational capabilities.
- Started using Javascript and React as shown in this app whose repo is here. Learned multiple coding languages and development frameworks to serve the needs of changing development programs.
- Partnered with customers to understand software needs and advise on best-fit options.
[Python, Flask, React, Postgres, Docker, GitLab, Docker Swarm, AWS]
- Lead all technical efforts of the company by collecting and analysing system requirements as well as designing project architectures.
- Recruited, trained and mentored 2 software engineers for over a year.
- Designing and building out the architecture of mayicard.
- Designed and built a cluster on AWS to host the mayicard deployment environments using docker swarm, traefik, portainer
- Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline to drastically improve our software delivery process by allowing us to deploy almost every hour
- Created IT strategy and set all infrastructure policies.
- Increased team productivity by 60% over 3 months through dedicated planning and retrospectives.
- Manage a team of 3 junior developers in designing and executing project architecture for merchant payments integrations, mobile money API integrations, USSD integrations as well as bespoke project
- Improved tech support response time to incidents within the production environment by developing a flexible and configurable monitoring system to detect low transaction traffic
- Increased ability to identify discrepancies between transaction accounts by designing a robust auto reconciliation mechanism for finance department use
- Key contributor in deploying tools to achieve the principle of least privilege across the entire software development staff, comprising 15 personnel.
- Ensured bug reports were remedied, handling all associated issues promptly and effectively.
- Collaborated with other developers to identify and alleviate software bugs.
- Designed and supervised the development of the Ministry of Water system to enable recording of water connections, billing customers and collecting payments
- Supervised the development and deployment of the third party bill payments integration to DFCU Bank that enables agents to collect payments for UMEME and NWSC
[C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET WebForms, Web Services (XML), MS SQL Server] Managed integration efforts of over 20 clients to the PegPay bill payment API while overseeing mobile money integrations for PegPay mobile money API.
- Developed Flexipay merchant platform for Stanbic Bank, enabling merchants to receive payments from multiple payment channels and stream them into one bank account.
- Designed and developed the Airtel to MTN internetwork integration, enabling the transfer of mobile money between Uganda’s two largest telecom operators.
- Increased mobile money transactions in rural areas of Sembabule by creating the PegPay agent float management platform, allowing for on-demand distribution of mobile money float to agents.
- Attained certification and compliance with all PCI DSS requirements by driving the implementation of new features on reporting web portals.
- Reduced customer support calls by 95% by reengineering the web portal for bulk money transfers.