Kampala,
Uganda
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GMT )
About
Jjingo Wasaaka Kisakye is a software developer based in Uganda who is committed & enthusiastic to providing tech solutions and solving real world problems. He’s currently supporting the Ortus Africa Capital in development of web solutions. Jjingo always yearns to improve his innovative skills each day. Professionally, Jjingo respects team members, empowers them and always learns from them. Timely shipment of tested code is important to him. His expertise is web development including ruby on rails, rspec, postgresql, APIs, react, html, javascript, wordpress, and android mobile development in Java for over 9 years. He’s created & supported over 10+ webapps, 5+ android apps for various companies . He’s been involved in 10+ innovations challenges all over the world. Jjingo adventure, innovations & is always open to new challenges in life.
Jjingo Wasaaka Kisakye is a software developer based in Uganda who is committed & enthusiastic to providing tech solutions and solving real world problems. He’s currently supporting the Ortus Africa Capital in development of web solutions. Jjingo always yearns to improve his innovative skills each day. Professionally, Jjingo respects team members, empowers them and always learns from them. Timely shipment of tested code is important to him. His expertise is web development including ruby on rails, rspec, postgresql, APIs, react, html, javascript, wordpress, and android mobile development in Java for over 9 years. He’s created & supported over 10+ webapps, 5+ android apps for various companies . He’s been involved in 10+ innovations challenges all over the world. Jjingo adventure, innovations & is always open to new challenges in life.
Experience
- Worked closely with infrastructure staff of 30+ people and departmental decision makers to develop, upgrade and implement cost-effective web application solutions.
- Writing and maintaining reliable code in ruby, react, javascript
- Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs
- Improve and maintain applications after deployment
- Build & coordinate with team members who work on different layers of software solution
- Lead & guide a cross functional teams to brainstorm ideas, analyse and design both web and mobile a complex helping application of solving sexual harassment problem
- Fully responsible & lead develop, upgrade and maintain the Safepal web application in rails and mobile application in android.
- Support, and fix bugs in modules in react and rails version of the safepal application
- Generate documents including proposals, budgets, software requirements and user guide documents for the developed solution
Managed development milestones from initial steps through final delivery.
Trained and supervised interns and team members for ongoing Ruby on Rails web apps & Mobile projects.
Took concepts and produced design mockups and prototypes to strengthen designs, enhance user experiences and improve site interactions.
Planned and engineered RESTful web services to manipulate dynamic datasets.
Reviewed code, debugged problems and corrected issues.
Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns.
Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
- Design & developing new web applications in rails
- Maintaining & upgrading existing web applications
- Creating backend components
- Identifying and fixing bottlenecks, bugs
- Training interns and supporting the rest of the team to develop the best solutions
- Designing and developing android mobile applications
- Deploying apps to various servers including Heroku, AWS and DigitalOcean
- Brainstorming new ideas, developing requirement documents, proposals, guides and manuals
- Design & developing new web applications in rails
- Maintaining & upgrading existing web applications
- Creating backend components
- Identifying and fixing bottlenecks, bugs
- Training interns and supporting the rest of the team to develop the best solutions
- Designing and developing android mobile applications
- Deploying apps to various servers including Heroku, AWS and DigitalOcean
- Brainstorming new ideas, developing requirement documents, proposals, guides and manuals
Applied mathematical skills and understanding of engineering principles to design new products, tools and systems.
Supervised 70+ trainee and employees throughout design and execution of hardware projects.
Trained to engineering students on embedded system development to streamline overall productivity for company projects.
- Communicated with 5 product managers and 4 UX designers to translate project requirements and business objectives into polished user interfaces.
- Improved and expanded 4 project platforms using JavaScript to develop rich User Interfaces.
- Collaborated with 10 teammates to deliver valuable features meeting business and customer needs.
- Conducted research by interviewing users, external customers and various stakeholders.
- Devised diagrams to outline system interactions and sequences underpinning interfaces.
- Aligned organisational objectives with company mission, increasing revenue, profit and business growth by collaboratively developing integrated strategies.
- Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.