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Software Engineer Preferred Title
$37.50 /hr $ 45.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History - Worksession Approval 100.0%
- Average Response Time 2.6 hours
- Average Count of Messages/Day 8.2
- Project Completion Rate 2/4
- Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
- Timezone Overlap 14h PST, 19h UTC
- Earned Hours 2010.50
- No. of Onboarding MCQs Completed 180 More details
- Software Engineering Process 2.0/5
- Design Practice 3.0/5
- Design Theory 3.0/5
- Technical Breadth 3.0/5
- Logical Thinking 2.0/5
- Technical Strength 3.0/5
- System Design 3.0/5
- Productivity and Responsiveness 3.0/5
- Teamwork 4.0/5
- Agile Development Process 3.0/5
- Intellectual Merit 3.0/5
- English Communication 4.0/5
- Documentation 3.0/5
- Desktop Linux
- Phone Android
- Member Since Sep 27, 2022
- Profile Last Updated Dec 05, 2024
- Last Activity Jan. 16, 2025, 2 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: 4 years
Python (5E, 3Y, 1C)
5 experiences, across 3 years, with 1 coursePython Selenium (3E, 2Y)
3 experiences, across 2 yearsSelenium (2E, 2Y)
2 experiences, across 2 yearsGmail Api (2Y)
2 years of experiencePrompt Engineering
RAG
Flask
MongoDB
Open AI
React (3E)
3 experiencesJavaScript (2E, 2Y, 1C)
2 experiences, across 2 years, with 1 courseHTML (2E, 2Y, 1C)
2 experiences, across 2 years, with 1 courseCSS (3E, 2Y, 1C)
3 experiences, across 2 years, with 1 courseDjango (2E, 2Y, 1C)
2 experiences, across 2 years, with 1 courseREST (1C)
1 courseSQLite (2C)
2 coursesLeetcode
Heroku (1C)
1 courseAWS (1C)
1 courseWeb Hosting (1C)
1 courseBootstrap (2C)
2 coursesAzure (1C)
1 coursePostgres (1C)
1 courseMySQL (2C)
2 coursesWordpress (1C)
1 courseTwitter APIs (1C)
1 courseWeb scrapers (1C)
1 courseSQL (1C)
1 course
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 14h PST, 19h UTC
Day
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UTC
03 - 08
03 - 09
03 - 09
03 - 09
03 - 09
03 - 09
03 - 08
PST
19 - 00
19 - 01
19 - 01
19 - 01
19 - 01
19 - 01
19 - 00
Vetting
- Interview Data
- Software Engineering Process
- Design Practice
- Design Theory
- Technical Breadth
- Logical Thinking
- Technical Strength
- System Design
- Productivity and Responsiveness
- Teamwork
- Agile Development Process
- Intellectual Merit
- English Communication
- Documentation
Experience
Software Engineer
Passion Project
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Ld Talent Company
Technology Industry
Project: Cut off Trees for Golf Event
- Used Python to solve the Leetcode challenge "Cut off Trees for Golf Event"
- Demonstrated my problem solving skills by working on this Leetcode challenge
Front End Developer
Contract
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Erlomaton General Supplies Company
Retail Industry
Project: React Website
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Marketing Engineer
Contract
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
LD Hr Marketing Client's Company/Project
Technology Industry
Project: LDHrMarketing
- I executed the Python Selenium script manually daily, overseeing the seamless automation of Ld Talent's marketing
- I actively managed and enhanced the script, incorporating advanced functionalities using Selenium, to address any potential challenges or evolving requirements, ensuring adaptability and robustness
Software Engineer
Contract
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
LD Talent Client's Company/Project
Technology Industry
- Utilized Python Selenium for maintaining and enhancing existing test scripts, ensuring compatibility across different browsers
- Utilized the Gmail API to programmatically retrieve login credentials from emails sent to my Gmail account, enabling seamless automation
- Check out my technical abilities and features developed in the demos below.
So far quite detailed and seems to be solving the issues he is finding.
Software Engineer
Contract
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
Sathya Consulting Client's Company/Project
Project: SathyaConsulting
- Used Open AI Text Embedding to measure the relatedness of text strings.
- Used Flask to develop an API that can query the database and return responses on the frontend
- Used MongoDB to perform Vector search on the text embeddings
- Build a RAG project that allows users to ask a question and then get AI-generated responses
- Applied my prompt engineering skills to improve the AI-generated responses
good work so far
Video Projects
How to implement django-tenant-schemas with a fixed URL
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Frontend Developer
Technology
- Python
- Python Selenium
- Selenium
- Gmail Api
- 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
- Python
- Python Selenium
- Selenium
- Gmail Api
- 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 [Graduation Diploma Confirmed]
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021
B.Sc (Information Technology)
Courses
Reviews
Client Project Reviews
SathyaConsulting
good work so far
LD Talent
So far quite detailed and seems to be solving the issues he is finding.