Brian N
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Software Developer Preferred Title
$31.25 /hr $ 45.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History - Average Response Time 12.0 hours
- Average Count of Messages/Day 0.6
- Project Completion Rate 2/4
- Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
- Timezone Overlap 13h PST, 42h 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
- Software Engineering Process 4.0/5
- Technical Breadth 4.0/5
- Algorithmic Thinking 4.0/5
- Technical Strength 3.0/5
- Teamwork 4.0/5
- Intellectual Merit 4.0/5
- Desktop Mac
- Phone Android
- Member Since Jul 27, 2021
- Profile Last Updated Oct 16, 2023
- Last Activity Nov. 24, 2023, 7:04 p.m. UTC
- Location Kenya
Profile Summary
I am an experienced software developer with a passion for creating high-quality software that meets user needs. With expertise in Cross platform mobile development and Golang for backend development, I am adept at tackling complex problems and staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends. I am excited to bring my skills and enthusiasm to a dynamic and innovative team.
Skills
Total Experience: 4 years
Flutter (6E, 4Y)
6 experiences, across 4 yearsKotlin (3E, 2Y)
3 experiences, across 2 yearsFirebase (3E, 2Y)
3 experiences, across 2 yearsSwift (4E, 2Y)
4 experiences, across 2 yearsGit (3E, 1Y)
3 experiences, 1 yearExpressJS (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearHeroku (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearSequelize (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearMySQL (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearDart (2E, 1Y)
2 experiences, 1 yearGo (2E, 1Y)
2 experiences, 1 yearStripe API (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearVue.js (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearRedux (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearSvelte (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearSQLite (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearDocker (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearKubernetes (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearAWS (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearGithub API (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearREST (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yeariOS native app development (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a year
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 13h PST, 42h UTC
Day
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UTC
12 - 18
09 - 16
09 - 16
09 - 14
09 - 16
09 - 15
12 - 16
PST
04 - 10
01 - 08
01 - 08
01 - 06
01 - 08
01 - 07
04 - 08
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 frontend developer
Employment
Jun 2022 - Present
The Social App Company
Media and Communication Industry
Project: Monetised mobile chat application
- Flutter
- Swift
- Kotlin
- I work with a team of frontend team by helping where they need help and offering any technical help and advice that they might need on the frontend especially when it comes to Flutter
- I managed the Pull requests coming in from the team ensuring they are merged to the main working branch and handling deploys to the deployment service.
- Providing and highlighting potential harm in using a particular paradigm of building the app and adding new features or on implementing plugins that are hardware reliant using Kotlin and Swift
- Working on the version 2 of the app with a refreshed logic and user experience for the best customer experience.
iOS Frontend Developer
Passion Project
May 2022 - Aug 2023
iOS Development Company
Education Industry
Project: Qlick
- Swift
- Built a simple application with animations and good interface using Swift
- The changes I made while building the application were saved on a Github repository as can be seen on the link
iOS Developer
Passion Project
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
Rick and Morty Company
Media and Communication Industry
Project: Rick and Morty App
- Swift
- REST
- iOS native app development
- I was able to learn iOS native app development using UIKit and Swift and consuming the Rick and Morty REST API to show characters, episodes using the MVVM architecture
- Used Github to host the repository and manage the changes made.
Backend developer
Passion Project
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Simple Bank Company
Finance Industry
- Go
- Github API
- Docker
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Built a fully working transactions system for and using the Go language and leveraging gRPC to handle authentication for speed and reliable calls and responses
- I used Docker to manage the entire application and AWS to handle the application image and load balancing using Kubernetes Micro K8s
- I used Github actions to run tests for the application to ensure the entire process is predictable.
- I was able to deploy the entire backend as an image to AWS using Github API - OIDC
Technical Writer
Contract
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
LogRocket Company
Technology Industry
Project: Technical Writing
- Flutter
- Svelte
- Firebase
- Writing technical articles together with a team. The articles are mainly instructional articles on how to build certain features in an application or how to use a particular framework.
- I collaborate with a team of reviewers that check grammatical errors and how ease of understanding for any all developers at any technical level
- I wrote an article explaining how to build a fully working full stack web application using Svelte and Firebase
- I wrote a detailed article on how to build a Flutter application using dependency injection to reduce on the amount of boilerplate code and a more testable application.
Frontend developer
Contract
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
MyTalu Company
Finance Industry
- Flutter
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Used Figma to be a fully working MVP for the startup using Flutter and implementing plugins with Kotlin and Swift on the native side.
- Managed the repo on bitbucket by creating PRs and handling issues raised on Jira
- Worked with a team of three to ensure the finance aspect of the app had no errors caused when sending money. This involved a lot of testing and clearing errors in handling transactions.
Fullstack Developer
Employment
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
The Social App Company
Media and Communication Industry
Project: Monetised mobile chat
- Redux
- Go
- Kotlin
- Dart
- Flutter
- I worked on the backend team to work on adding new features for the chat application by adding new messaging functions that work on grpc
- I consumed gRPC calls made on the backend with the Go language and on the Flutter side using dart. And made the changes to the UI. For example I added the commenting to multiple images
- Handled changes made to the application by creating pull requests and requesting for reviews and later merges from team mates using Git
- I managed a complex user interface using Redux to manage state and control user actions and sending and receiving data over REST API
- I used Kotlin to fix issues raised on encryption and decryption of messages coming in, either on the flutter side or from notifications.
Fullstack developer
Contract
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
MtejaOps Company
Real Estate Industry
Project: MtejaOps Tenant Agent, Owner Application
- ExpressJS
- MySQL
- Git
- Sequelize
- Heroku
- Firebase
- Flutter
- I used nodejs and expressjs to build a rest API service and Sequelize, MySQL ORM to communicate with the database while keeping it modularized for better maintainability.
- The API was deployed to Heroku with PM2 for load balancing and handling restarts. I used google cloud APIs, Firebase messaging, to generate prompt notifications when handling dues.
- I used flutter and dart to consume the API in a secure way. The tokens were secured using the Hive encryption mechanism and bloc to maintain state throughout the entire application
- I deployed the application using Google Playstore services.
- Stored the project in Github and used Git for tracking changes.
Mobile Devloper
Employment
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Dukaree Company
Consumer Goods Industry
Project: Dukaree Captains
- Flutter
- Git
- Dart
- SQLite
- Developed a user interface from scratch using Figma to create a new interface
- Developed a user interface from designs using Flutter and Dart. Consumed backend APIs using the Get Dio library to manage state and handle authenticated routing.
- Used Git for better versioning and change tracking
- I used saved the data from the consumed APIs to a local database using Flutter Floor, a wrapper for dart SQLite.
Lead Developer
Contract
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Studykale Company
Education Industry
- Git
- Stripe API
- Firebase
- Vue.js
- I used Firebase Firestore to manage user data and handle authentication between user and backend.
- I created a design and implemented it using Vue.js framework and Buefy a CSS framework while leveraging Vue's vuex state management library to persist data across browser rtabs refresh.
- Built chatbot using crisp chat to help support team communication better with incoming clients.
- The project requires payment services. I combined Firebase Functions and Stripe APIs to create a secure payment process.
- Used Git for versioning the project and tracking changes for bug fixes.
LD Experience
Coding Challenges
Skill:
- Flutter
- Kotlin
- Firebase
- Swift
- Git
- ExpressJS
- Heroku
Basic
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Basic
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Basic
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Video Projects
How to implement django-tenant-schemas with a fixed URL
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Frontend Developer
Technology
- Flutter
- Kotlin
- Firebase
- Swift
- Git
- ExpressJS
- Heroku
- Led user research for a new construction site documentation tool.
- Hosted workshops to synthesize user insights into design requirements.
- Designed 3D concepts and built prototypes to investigate new tool form factors.
- Researched existing digital solutions and prioritized key features for app release.
LD Ventures
Thea
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Frontend Developer
Technology
- Flutter
- Kotlin
- Firebase
- Swift
- Git
- ExpressJS
- Heroku
- I used the Django Rest Framework to create a multi tenant API with the aid of the django-tenant-schemas package.
- I used the Postgres Database as the persistence layer and specifically the PostgreSQL Schemas to ensure that all tenants using the API had their data.
- I used the REST architecture in designing my API.
- Researched existing digital solutions and prioritized key features for app release.
Lifelong Learning Projects Reviewed
Qualifications
Education
Kisii University
Aug 2014 - Apr 2018
Bsc (Animal Production and Technology)
Courses
Google Africa Developers Program
- Google Cloud