Castro S
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Software Engineer Preferred Title
$19.00 /hr $ 28.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History - Worksession Approval 100.0%
- Average Response Time 4.1 hours
- Average Count of Messages/Day 6.3
- Project Completion Rate 2/4
- Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
- Timezone Overlap 7h PST, 14h UTC
- Projects Worked in Last 2 Weeks 1
- Hours Worked in Last 2 Weeks 96.0
- Earned Hours 945.50
- 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 2.0/5
- Technical Breadth 3.0/5
- Algorithmic Thinking 2.0/5
- Technical Strength 3.0/5
- Teamwork 4.0/5
- Intellectual Merit 3.0/5
- English Communication 4.0/5
- Desktop Linux
- Phone Android
- Member Since Sep 27, 2022
- Profile Last Updated Feb 02, 2023
- Last Activity Oct. 3, 2023, 1:23 p.m. UTC
- Location Kenya
Profile Summary
Solution-oriented and problem solver with experience building and maintaining software and software architecture. Highly skilled in communication, collaboration, and technical documentation.
Skills
Total Experience: 2+ years
CSS (4E, 1Y)
4 experiences, 1 yearJavaScript (3E, 1Y)
3 experiences, 1 yearHTML (3E, 1Y)
3 experiences, 1 yearDjango (3E, 1Y)
3 experiences, 1 yearPython (3E, 1Y)
3 experiences, 1 yearPython Selenium (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearSelenium (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearReact (3E, < 1Y)
3 experiences, less than a yearREST (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearSQLite (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a year
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 7h PST, 14h UTC
Day
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UTC
03 - 08
03 - 08
03 - 08
03 - 08
03 - 08
03 - 08
03 - 08
PST
20 - 01
20 - 01
20 - 01
20 - 01
20 - 01
20 - 01
20 - 01
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
Software Engineer
Contract
Feb 2023 - Present
LD Talent Company
Technology Industry
Project: Marketing Automation
- Python Selenium
- Python
- Selenium
- Used Python Selenium to maintain and improve existing tests scripts
- Developed new test scripts using Python Selenium
Front End Developer
Contract
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Erlomaton General Supplies Company
Retail Industry
Project: React Website
- JavaScript
- CSS
- HTML
- React
- Wrote well-designed and efficient code by using React, HTML, and Tailwind CSS
- Wrote application interface code using JavaScript following React.js workflows.
Front End Developer
Passion Project
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
MyAdmin Company
Technology Industry
Project: Admin Dashboard
- CSS
- React
- Used React to build an admin dashboard app.
- Used Tailwind CSS to define the styles for the dashboard app.
Full Stack Developer
Passion Project
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Dry Joke App Company
Arts and Entertainment Industry
Project: Random Dry Joke
- REST
- React
- Django
- Built a high-performing web app where one could generate a random joke with the click of a button.
- Developed RESTful API using Python Django.
- Fetched the API JSON data and integrated it with a React frontend.
- Implemented a Share to Twitter feature where one could share a random dry joke directly to Twitter.
Software Engineer
Course Project
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
LinkedIn Learning Company
Food and Agriculture Industry
Project: Wisdom Pets
- HTML
- Python
- SQLite
- Django
- JavaScript
- CSS
- I used Django to develop a data-driven architecture for this project.
- I used HTML in Django templates to design the layout and content of the web app.
- I used CSS to style the HTML code in the Django templates.
- I used Python to help load CSV data into the SQLite database.
- I used JavaScript to add special effects to the web pages and to enhance the usability of my Django templates.
LD Experience
Client Projects
Developer
Contract
Jan 2023 - Present
LD Hr Marketing Client's Company/Project
Project: LDHrMarketing
- Python
Developer
Contract
Jan 2023 - Aug 2023
LD Talent Client's Company/Project
- JavaScript
- Django
- HTML
- CSS
So far quite detailed and seems to be solving the issues he is finding.
Coding Challenges
Skill:
- CSS
- JavaScript
- HTML
- Django
- Python
- Python Selenium
- Selenium
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
- CSS
- JavaScript
- HTML
- Django
- Python
- Python Selenium
- Selenium
- 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
- CSS
- JavaScript
- HTML
- Django
- Python
- Python Selenium
- Selenium
- 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.
Qualifications
Education
Kibabii University
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021
B.Sc (Information Technology)
Courses
Become a Django Developer
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
LinkedIn Learning
- Bootstrap
- Postgres
- AWS
- SQLite
- Azure
- Web Hosting
- Django
- REST
- Heroku
Become a Web Developer
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
LinkedIn Learning
- Wordpress
- HTML
- JavaScript
- MySQL
- CSS
Python for Everybody
May 2020 - May 2020
Coursera
- Bootstrap
- Twitter APIs
- SQLite
- Python
- Web scrapers
- MySQL
- SQL
Reviews
Client Project Reviews
LD Talent
So far quite detailed and seems to be solving the issues he is finding.