Benard A
Software Engineer/ Software Consultant/ FullStack Preferred Title
$20.00 /hr $ 34.6K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History - Average Response Time 12.0 hours
- Average Count of Messages/Day 0.8
- Project Completion Rate 2/4
- Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
- Timezone Overlap 48h PST, 36h UTC
- Code Quality 60%
- Soft Skill Attributes 60%
- Expertise 2/3
- Coding Challenges 60%
- No. of Lifelong Learning Projects 2
- No. of Coding Challenges Completed 2 More details
- Desktop Linux
- Phone iPhone
- Tablet Android Tablet
- Member Since Jan 08, 2020
- Profile Last Updated Mar 12, 2021
- Last Activity Aug. 1, 2021, 5:36 p.m. UTC
- Location Uganda
Profile Summary
Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Mobile Application Development (React-Native, Kotlin/Java), Web Development (React) and API Development. (Go) Stacks: React, React Native, TypeScript, Golang, Node, Express, Kotlin, Databases(MongoDB, Firebase, Postgres, MySQL, SQLite), Building APIs (REST, Graphql, GRPC)
Skills
Total Experience: 5+ years
Redux (3E, 4Y)
3 experiences, across 4 yearsFirebase (2E, 3Y)
2 experiences, across 3 yearsReact native (1E, 3Y)
1 experience, across 3 yearsReact (3E, 3Y)
3 experiences, across 3 yearsREST (2E, 3Y)
2 experiences, across 3 yearsGo (2E, 3Y)
2 experiences, across 3 yearsKotlin (3E, 2Y)
3 experiences, across 2 yearsDjango (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsAWS (2E, 2Y)
2 experiences, across 2 yearsAndroid native app development (2E, 1Y)
2 experiences, 1 yearSQLite (2E, 1Y)
2 experiences, 1 yearJava (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a year
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 48h PST, 36h UTC
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UTC
15 - 23
15 - 23
15 - 23
15 - 23
15 - 23
15 - 23
PST
08 - 16
08 - 16
08 - 16
08 - 16
08 - 16
08 - 16
Vetting
- Interview Data
- Agile Development Process
- Productivity and Responsiveness
- Teamwork
- Software Engineering
- Logical Thinking
- Technical Strength
- Intellectual Merit
- English Communication
- Documentation
- System Design
- Coding Challenges60%
- Algorithms Score60%
- General Score60%
- Easy Algorithm
- Correctness60%
- Performance60%
- Medium Algorithm
- Correctness60%
- Performance60%
- Hard Algorithm
- Correctness60%
- Performance60%
- Expertise2/3
- Design Patterns and Architectures2/3
- Debugging2/3
- Stack Traces2/3
- Testing2/3
- System Administration2/3
- Soft Skill Attributes60%
- Entrepreneurial60%
- Whole Brained60%
- Divergent Thinking / Creativity60%
- Design Ability60%
- Empathy60%
- Project Management Ability60%
- Security60%
- Code Quality60%
- Complex Logic60%
- Models60%
- Controllers60%
- Templates60%
- APIs60%
- Training/Testing Data Models60%
- Code Readability60%
- Ongoing Evaluation
- Number of Lifelong Learning Project2
- Number of Coding Challenge Completed3
Experience
Lead Engineer
Contract
May 2020 - Present
Spotify Company
Arts and Entertainment Industry
Project: Bumu
- React native
- Firebase
- Redux
- I have built messaging both chat and video, feed and status, tag and challenge features in react native.
- Using Firebase and its services for real time storage and authentication.
- Using Redux for state management.
Full Stack Developer
Contract
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Pearl Safaris & Holidays Company
Travel Industry
- AWS
- React
- Redux
- I build booking features using react.
- I use Redux for state management.
- I interact with AWS for storage and other AWS services we need.
Software Engineer
Contract
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
ISBAT UNIVERSITY Company
Education Industry
Project: ISBAT
- REST
- Go
- AWS
- React
- Redux
- I built the front end using react and redux.
- Using AWS for storage, hosting and a suite of other features AWS ships with.
- I used Go to build REST APIs that were being consumed by the applications.
- Using Redux for state management across the app.
Full Stack Developer
Contract
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Swipy Company
Retail Industry
- Android native app development
- Firebase
- Kotlin
- SQLite
- I built rating features, data analytics and ad features in Kotlin.
- Using Android native app development principles while working.
- Using Firebase for real time data storage and authentication.
- Using SQLite but to be more specific room for local storage in order to support offline support.
Software Engineer
Contract
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
Andela Company
Technology Industry
Project: Health Checks, Wger & Converge
- REST
- Go
- React
- Django
- Kotlin
- Taking on roles as an Android Developer basing on Android native app development.
- Using Python knowledge to work on Django and Flask projects.
- I built software solutions in React and React Native.
- I used Kotlin to build Native Android Apps.
- I used Express and Go when building microservices and REST apis
Software Engineer
Contract
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Premise Data Company
Research Industry
- Android native app development
- Kotlin
- SQLite
- Java
- I built features that would help how Premise collects data using their app in Kotlin.
- Integrating the legacy code in Java with the new features built with Kotlin.
- Using my Android native app development skills to build features.
- Using Sqlite for local storage
Reviews
Interview Reviews
BILDITInc
Fairly responsive and detailed.