WORK HISTORY
2020
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
March 2022 - present
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Software Engineer II
Microsoft
November 2020 - March 2022
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
2018
Senior Software Engineer
OpenInvest
August 2018 - November 2020
Senior Software Engineer at OpenInvest
2018
Senior Software Engineer
Andela
August 2018 - November 2020
· Senior Consultant - Snr Software Developer (Aug 2018 - Sept 2019)
· Senior Software Engineer (Sept 2019 - Nov 2020)
2015
Software Developer / Ops / DBA
Central Bank of Kenya
March, 2015 - July, 2018
Software Developer, Ops & DBA at the Central Bank of Kenya.
Lead Developer on over 7 production systems (incl. internal) at the Bank.
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Lead Developer: CBK Recruitment platform:
- Sytems: Internship, Careers and Exams Systems
- Internship, Careers: Seamless registration, application, docs+profile mgt
- Exams: (Auto) invigilation, timing, grading, reporting and administration
- Custom-built bulk & transactional mailer: email verification, notifications and exam alerts
- HR Backend: LDAP integration, built-in dynamic report generation, search capabilities & long-listing
- Work closely with the recruitment team on meeting functional needs in an agile development approach
- Technical Lead - New CBK Website project:
- Worked with stakeholders and consulting developers to meet the Bank’s needs.
- Organized and facilitated technical and user acceptance testing.
- Won Central Banking’s Central Bank Website of the Year 2016
- Built an applications and infrastructure monitoring tool in use to monitor services and uptime. [go]
- Designed a social media image generator in use daily by the Bank’s Comms team. [javascript]
- Work with other teams internally on various software projects relating to the core banking system.
- Ops: Bash backup and shipping scripts of specific apps and databases
- Ops: Bash scripting of uptime service checks and log analysis on older servers and AIX (Unix) server apps
- Ops: Dockerizing & managing docker container services on Linux boxes
- Ops: Nginx configuration - TLS termination, load balancing, reverse proxy, http security headers
- DBA: Oracle DBs administration (DBAs Team Member)
- Admin: World Bank PAT2 Administration and Support
- Admin: IBM Websphere Administration and Support
- Previously:
- T24 COB Administrator, and T24 Support (6 months)
- IT Service Desk - User Support (6 months)
2012
NSE Historical Data API
ACTIVE: Aug 2012 - Mar 2015
Nairobi Stocks Exchange API (See Docs) for End-Of-Day historical Data.
Lang: Python, DB: Google Datastore, Cloud Platform: Google App Engine
Pata Manga
Manga Downloader & Archiver (post).
Windows CLI Executable, Lang: Python
Started working with Git on projects + joined Github(first_contribution:2014)
2011
Nanga PHP MVC Framework
Wrote the Nanga PHP framework: Used PHP 5's Object Oriented features to implement an light MVC framework that borrowed concepts from Yii, and Django. Used of most freelance projects and personal dev.
MVC Framework, Lang: PHP
BAKE - Founding Member
One of the founding members of BAKE (Bloggers Association of Kenya).
2010
Created Blogs_Kenya & News_Kenya Twitter Handles
Created the Blogs_Kenya twitter handle to feature Kenyan bloggers
Created the News_Kenya twitter handle for curated news from local media houses
2009
First Website
Setup my first domain name (theonlinekenyan.com), started freelance webdev gigs - mostly Wordpress & Joomla installs.
Blogger hosted custom domains, Wordpress, Joomla, HTML templates
You can view my LinkedIn profile for information or to connect with me.
