Professional Résumé
References available upon request
Summary
Over 7 years of expertise in designing and building high-performing applications prioritizing usability, seamless user experiences, and maintainable architectures. Passionate about refining product workflows, enhancing user journeys, and delivering solutions that drive measurable impact.
Employment History
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Senior Software Engineer, Nexleaf AnalyticsLos Angeles
- Developed a real-time vaccine monitoring solution: Built a mobile application to monitor vaccines during transit, enabling 90% of vaccine distribution in pilot regions of Tanzania to be tracked within the first three months.
- Integrated Berlinger temperature loggers: Led the integration of third-party temperature loggers with the internal system, delivering cold chain equipment performance analytics to enhance vaccine monitoring and maintenance processes.
- Modernized front-end architecture: Migrated a monolithic front-end to modular Angular pages integrated with RESTful back-end services, significantly improving the performance and scalability of the data management system.
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Senior Software Engineer, ProdPerfectSan Francisco
- Boosted QA productivity by 500%: Built a testing solution that automated TestCafe suites, added debugging videos, and eliminated self-reporting, ensuring precise test coverage and faster results.
- Optimized notification systems: Reduced turnaround time from 72 to 24 hours by building efficient AWS-powered notification services using SNS, SQS, Lambda, and Terraform.
- Empowered CI/CD workflows: Created a custom workflow that provided insights into failed builds, enabling customers to resolve errors pre-release and improve deployment confidence.
- Scaled development processes: Designed APIs, reusable components, and customer-driven features while aligning development with user needs to accelerate application scalability.
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Senior Frontend Engineer, Twiga FoodsNairobi
- Created a fin-tech platform, Sokoloan: Built a system that centralized enterprise data, making financial operations faster, more accessible, and easier to manage.
- Built a mission control dashboard: Designed a tool used daily by thousands to track, analyze, and manage key operational data.
- Boosted development pace: Optimized internal tools and processes, reducing software delivery times for quicker change implementation.
- Spearheaded UI component development: Led the design and development of user interface components for the company’s flagship software product, resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement.
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Lead Frontend Engineer, MookhNairobi
- Led UX-focused development: Developed a mobile app and three web applications, ensuring scalability.
- Streamlined operations: Developed a system improving event, ticketing, and digital content management.
- Enhanced user experience: Reduced checkout time by 80%, cutting it from over 5 minutes to under 1 minute with a re-imagined UX.
- Boosted mobile user engagement: Created exceptional mobile-first solutions for 70% of device users.
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Consultancy, UpworkRemote
- Developed a digital learning tool: Contributed to an Agile team at Crowdbotics, remotely developing a tool for undergrad business students to manage and showcase projects.
- Created an affiliate management platform: Built and sustained an efficient affiliate management platform for a seamless workflow.
- Developed an interactive math game: Created a real-time scoring math game for StrongDev to enhance user engagement in learning.
Skills
- Technical
- Product
- Frontend
- Backend
- Testing
Technical
- Architecture
- Design Patterns
- Scaling
- Testing
- Operational Metrics
Product
- Rapid Prototyping
- User Validation
- Documentation
- A/B Testing
Frontend
- React.js
- React-native
- Angular
- Ionic
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
Backend
- Node.js
- Python
- GraphQL
- Express.js
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- MongoDB
- AWS SNS, SQS, Lambda
Testing
- TestCafe
- Jest
- Testing Library