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Alex W - Python developer
Member since:Mar 17, 2020
Profile last updated:Oct 27, 2020
Last activity:Jan. 5, 2022, 12:23 p.m. UTC
Location:
Kenya

Alex W

I love breaking apart problems and forming a well-thought-out process in solving them. This has influenced my need to lead my clients through requirements analysis, system design and architecture before the start of any project. More often than never, this leads me into not only understanding the problem better understanding the client's business, products, and customers Besides my knack for breaking apart problems, I love working with Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, and many frameworks and too.

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Weekly Availability: 56 hours
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Hourly Rate:$19.00
Experience:3+ yrs
Python:3+ yrs
Python Selenium:2+ yrs
Jupyter:2+ yrs
Machine learning:2+ yrs
Agile:2+ yrs
AWS EC2:1+ yrs
DevOps:1+ yrs
Engineer's Devices:
Mac
Android
iPad

LD Talent Work History

Average response time:
3.6 hours
Avg count of messages / Day:
2.2
Average client satisfaction:

Earned hours:
53.00
Worksession approval:
100.0%
# Hires / # Interviews :
3 / 7
 

Experiences

Bank of America Merrill Lynch     CPM     Software Engineer     Employment
Aug 2020 - Present
Finance

  • Writing unit tests for existing projects using Python Selenium
  • Experimenting with ensemble models on Jupyter to increase accuracy of Machine Learning models
  • Occasionally playing the role of scrum master on the Agile team

Skills used: Python, Python Selenium, Jupyter, Agile, Machine learning


Kakbima Limited     Kakbima Insurance Platform     Head of Engineering     Employment
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Technology

  • Developing backend micro-services for an insurance quotes, policy and claims management platform (Python 3, Flask, Django, FastAPI, GraphQL, Apollo Federation, Ariadne, Docker, Jenkins, AWS Ec2, S3)
  • DevOps for setting up pipelines for code quality checks, code linting tests (must be above 8/10), unit tests, nightly functional tests on master branch, and auto deploy on AWS EC2
  • Developed a functional test framework for BDD in Java (spring boot) and Cucumber
  • Used Gunicorn and Nginx for web serving and caching
  • Implemented a payments module using stripe python api and mpesa - daraja api

Skills used: Python, AWS EC2, GraphQL, DevOps, Django



Link to the project:
Buffr     Software Developer     Contract
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Technology

  • Research on the state of the arts WiFI Triangulation technique for accurately measuring room occupancy
  • Implement a K-Nearest Neighbour technique for locating a device connected to different WiFi access points in a building
  • Implementing a WiFi triangulation algorithm for accurately locating a device connected to at least 3 devices in a building
  • Django, Python, React Native, Apollo GraphQL: Developing and maintaining the infrastructure and backend services to power a room occupancy and social distancing mobile application
  • DevOps: Setting up code quality tests and auto-deploy pipelines using jenkins and aws auto deploy

Skills used: Python, Apollo GraphQL, React native, DevOps, Django


Bank of America Merrill Lynch     Internal Remote Aggregator Functional Tests Framework     Software Engineer     Internship
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Finance

  • Developed a functional test framework for the internal Remote Risk Aggregator (Java, Gradle, Jenkins, Spring boot, Cucumber)
  • Implemented an elastic search proof of concept for an HDFS log files database to ease the search for log files especially when tracing errors
  • Migrated Python modules from py27 to py37 and making sure the modules pass all required unit tests
  • Used AWS S3 as cache for frequently accessed files

Skills used: Jenkins, Spring, Java, AWS S3, Cucumber



Client Reviews

LD Talent:    
Did not attempt the project though he accepted the interview.
Buffr:    
Great experience! Very enthusiastic, responsive and puts a lot of effort into his work. Very dilligent.