Cigna healthcare is a global health benefits provider.
Responsibilities:
- Part of DigiEye squad responsible for delivering health benefits app for the KSA market.
Kyakula
Frontend Developer
(React, ReactNative, Typescript, NodeJS, MongoDB)
Nairobi, Kenya
1-10 employees
Sept 2023 - Present
7 mon
Food Delivery app based in Kenya.
Responsibilities:
- Worked on various features like restaurant browsing, menu selection and order tracking on the flagship Food delivery app using ReactNative in a team of 8.
- Hold a key role in building and maintaining card and Mobile money payments integration through Flutterwave.
- Introduced and written over 250 tests on Kyakula mobile app using Jest.
Part of the team responsible for rebuilding the entire company's Infrastructure from the ground up.
Responsibilities:
- Led the migration of legacy low code app to modern MERN stack resulting in easier scaling from Texas to 5 other states.
- Grew engineering team from solo dev to 5 engineers from different parts of the world.
- Architected the backend into 3 microservices (monolith, jobs and sync) that scaled horizontally as we grew.
- Streamlined dev and deployment processes with CI/CD pipelines, Docker and e2e testing.
Adanian Labs
Senior Frontend Engineer
(React, ReactNative, Typescript)
Nairobi, Kenya
50-100 employees
Jan 2022 - March 2023
1 yr 3 mon
Venture building studio that sets out to build unicorns from Africa.
Responsibilities:
- Interviewed over 45 and hired more than 10 Frontend Engineers for startups within the lab.
- Designed coding standards and implemented our design system that resulted in general code review turn around time from 2 days to 1 day.
- Implemented Github Actions CI/CD pipelines that resulted in more deployment cycles from every sprint to every week.
- Managed 3 junior engineers ensuring their quality task completion, skills development and career progression.
Legal Space
Frontend Engineer
(React, Typescript)
Lusaka, Zambia
10-20 employees
Oct 2022 - March 2023
6 mon
Web based platform connecting clients to Legal Practitioners
Responsibilities:
- Built and maintained complex UI components ensuring browser compatibility and Accessibility requirements were met.
- Integrated RESTful Apis with backend team and ensuring optimized performance. Less than 1 sec load time.
- Implemented state management using Redux, improving application scalability and maintainability.
Bloow Global
Frontend Engineer
(React, Typescript)
Nairobi, Kenya
1-10 employees
Sept 2021 - Jan 2022
5 mon
Music Streaming platform for Africa. I helped ship and grow the initial MVP to over 80,000 users.
Responsibilities:
- Involved in the development and growth of the initial MVP using ReactJS. Up to (80,000 users).
- Improved web app performance by 15% by code splitting, caching and assets optimization.
- Reduced app downtime by 50% during peak traffic spikes from prior caching endeavour and implementing a CDN.
Fiverr
Freelance Full Stack Engineer
(React, Flask, Django, Python, Typescript)
Nairobi, Kenya
~ employees
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
2 yrs
Worked with different companies in different industries, including, Logistics, FinTech and PropTech as Full Stack Engineer.
Rently LLC
Co Founder
(React, Python, Typescript)
Nairobi, Kenya
1-10 employees
Jan 2020 - March 2021
1 yr 3 mon
Rental property management Software.
Responsibilities:
- Built the entire web based application.
- Did outbound sales (Signed up 7 paying clients)
- Conducted customer research to determine new features to build