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Joseph K

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Full-stack Developer Preferred Title
$31.25 /hr $ 50.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview Vetting Experiences Qualifications Reviews
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History
  • Average Response Time 12.0 hours
  • Average Count of Messages/Day 0.4
  • Project Completion Rate 2/4
  • Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
  • Timezone Overlap 29h PST, 17h UTC
Vetting Summary
  • 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
Interview Scores (3.6/5)
  • Software Engineering Process 3.0/5
  • Technical Breadth 4.0/5
  • Algorithmic Thinking 4.0/5
  • Technical Strength 3.0/5
  • Teamwork 3.0/5
  • Intellectual Merit 4.0/5
  • English Communication 4.0/5
Talent's Devices
  • Desktop Windows
  • Phone Android
General
  • Member Since Aug 23, 2021
  • Profile Last Updated Jul 14, 2023
  • Last Activity Aug. 2, 2023, 7:49 p.m. UTC
  • Location Kenya
Profile Summary
I am a versatile and results-oriented professional with experience in software development and architecting and working as a full-stack engineer. In addition, I have proven to balance multiple competing tasks within high-pressure atmospheres and streamline processes and procedures to maximize productivity and efficiency. I excel at providing exceptional organizational and time-management skills and driving optimal office efficiency and success.
Skills
Total Experience: 4 years
  • Django (4E, 3Y)

    4 experiences, across 3 years
  • JavaScript (4E, 3Y)

    4 experiences, across 3 years
  • HTML (5E, 3Y)

    5 experiences, across 3 years
  • CSS (5E, 3Y)

    5 experiences, across 3 years
  • Python (4E, 2Y)

    4 experiences, across 2 years
  • AWS EC2 (3E, 2Y)

    3 experiences, across 2 years
  • Docker (3E, 2Y)

    3 experiences, across 2 years
  • Heroku (1E, 2Y)

    1 experience, across 2 years
  • MySQL (1E, 2Y)

    1 experience, across 2 years
  • Kotlin (3E, 2Y)

    3 experiences, across 2 years
  • AWS RDS (1E, 1Y)

    1 experience, 1 year
  • AWS S3 (1E, 1Y)

    1 experience, 1 year
  • Continuous Integration (1E, 1Y)

    1 experience, 1 year
  • AWS (1E, 1Y)

    1 experience, 1 year
  • Spring (2E, 1Y)

    2 experiences, 1 year
  • SCRUM (1E, 1Y)

    1 experience, 1 year
  • Angular (2E, 1Y)

    2 experiences, 1 year
  • Bootstrap (2E, 1Y)

    2 experiences, 1 year
  • Sendgrid API (1E, 1Y)

    1 experience, 1 year
  • Flask (2E, 1Y)

    2 experiences, 1 year
  • Java (2E, < 1Y)

    2 experiences, less than a year
  • AJAX (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Laravel (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • PHP (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • ExpressJS (2E, < 1Y)

    2 experiences, less than a year
  • Nodejs (2E, < 1Y)

    2 experiences, less than a year
  • XML (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Spring Boot (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Rabbit MQ (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Swagger (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • SQL (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Android native app development (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • REST (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Typescript (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Python Selenium (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Pandas (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
  • Postgres (1E, < 1Y)

    1 experience, less than a year
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 29h PST, 17h UTC
Day
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UTC
13 - 17
20 - 24
20 - 24
20 - 24
20 - 24
17 - 24
10 - 15
PST
06 - 10
13 - 17
13 - 17
13 - 17
13 - 17
10 - 17
03 - 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 Challenges
    60%
  • Algorithms Score
    60%
  • General Score
    60%
  • Easy Algorithm
  • Correctness
    60%
  • Performance
    60%
  • Medium Algorithm
  • Correctness
    60%
  • Performance
    60%
  • Hard Algorithm
  • Correctness
    60%
  • Performance
    60%
  • Expertise
    2/3
  • Design Patterns and Architectures
    2/3
  • Debugging
    2/3
  • Stack Traces
    2/3
  • Testing
    2/3
  • System Administration
    2/3
  • Soft Skill Attributes
    60%
  • Entrepreneurial
    60%
  • Whole Brained
    60%
  • Divergent Thinking / Creativity
    60%
  • Design Ability
    60%
  • Empathy
    60%
  • Project Management Ability
    60%
  • Security
    60%
  • Code Quality
    60%
  • Complex Logic
    60%
  • Models
    60%
  • Controllers
    60%
  • Templates
    60%
  • APIs
    60%
  • Training/Testing Data Models
    60%
  • Code Readability
    60%
  • Ongoing Evaluation
  • Number of Lifelong Learning Project
    2
  • Number of Coding Challenge Completed
    3
  • Lifelong Learning Project 1
  • Lifelong Learning Project 1
  • Coding Challenges 1
  • Coding Challenges 2
  • Coding Challenges 3
Experience
Full Stack Developer
Passion Project
Oct 2021 - Present
Kenya Revenue Authority Company
Government Industry
Project: Furika e-commerce API
  • Heroku
  • Python
  • MySQL
  • Django
  • I used Python to write the business logic of the application and write the data processing algorithms.
  • I used Django as the framework of choice to build the rest APIs.
  • I used MySQL as my database of choice for storing the e-commerce API data, such as product details, user information, order information, and cart information.
  • I used Heroku as my Paas hosting provider for deploying my application to serve the client.
Full Stack Developer
Contract
Sep 2021 - Present
Solution Social Network Company
Technology Industry
Project: Solution Social Network API
  • AWS EC2
  • Python
  • Django
  • Docker
  • I use Python as the core language for building Restful APIs using Django and Django-rest framework.
  • I use Docker as my core containerization tool before running the docker containers on an AWS EC2 instance.
Full Stack Developer
Contract
Mar 2022 - Present
Digital Supply Chain Platform Limited Company
Technology Industry
Project: Digital Distribution Solution
  • Angular
  • SCRUM
  • Docker
  • AWS EC2
  • Kotlin
  • Spring
  • I use Kotlin to build the backend API that runs on the Spring framework.
  • I use Angular as the core frontend framework to build the UI and consume my Restful APIs and Typescript as the core language to build interactive frontend pages.
  • We practice Scrum for management with daily standups coupled with Jira as our project management tool.
  • I use docker for containerizing my applications before sending them to a container management tool such as Docker registry and running them on my AWS Linux machines.
  • Our applications are deployed in AWS and I serve as the DevOps engineer who is responsible for pushing the applications to the AWS EC2 instances.
Website Links
  • http://localhost:8585/spvdev-backend/swagger-ui.html
Full Stack Developer
Employment
Mar 2022 - Present
Digital Supply Chain Platform Limited Company
Technology Industry
Project: Building AWS Pipelines
  • AWS
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS RDS
  • Continuous Integration
  • AWS S3
  • Used AWS as my cloud infrastructure to build CI/CD Pipelines to ensure continuous integrations.
  • Used AWS EC2 instance to create virtual servers for hosting the company's applications.
  • Used AWS RDS as the core database for the company's application for ensuring read and write.
  • Used AWS S3 bucket to store the build artifacts and later pulled them and deployed them using code deploy CI/CD tool for AWS.
Github Links
  • https://github.com/JosephKithome/MaombiApi
Full Stack Developer
Internship
Jan 2021 - Present
Kenya Revenue Authority Company
Government Industry
Project: Hr Survey Tool
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Django
  • Used Django for the backend part of the survey tool.
  • Used HTML to describe the structure of a web page and CSS to decide how content should be laid out on the web page.
  • Used JavaScript to implement the interactivity of the web page.
Backend Developer
Passion Project
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Self Employeed Company
Finance Industry
Project: Loan Lending API
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Rabbit MQ
  • Docker
  • Swagger
  • SQL
  • Used Java as the main Language in writing the business logic for all the APIs,Loan Request, Loan Approvals, repayments etc.
  • Used Spring boot as the framework of choice in coming up with the backend Apis for the application and used Swagger open Api to document my application.
  • Used SQL as the query language in interaction and transacting with the database.
  • Used Rabbit MQ as the message broker for queuing model in the application and making sure that the requests are processed in a FIFO manner.
  • Used docker to provision an image of Rabbit MQ that aided in implementing Queuing model in the backend Api.
Github Links
  • https://github.com/JosephKithome/EzraTechTest.git
Backend developer
Passion Project
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Digital Supply chain Platform Limited Company
Finance Industry
Project: Lending Api
  • Postgres
  • JavaScript
  • Nodejs
  • ExpressJS
  • used NodeJS for running web applications outside the client's browser.
  • used JavaScript as the language of choice to write business logic and and expose the APIS to the client.
  • Used expressJS as the framework of choice to build the APIs to be consumed on the client side.
  • Used PostgreSQL together with Knex Orm to build the database and created different tables required by the application
Website Links
  • https://josephkithome-lendsqr-be-test.herokuapp.com/
Github Links
  • https://github.com/JosephKithome/Lendsqr-Interview.git
Software Engineer
Employment
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Digital Supply Chain Platform Limited Company
Technology Industry
Project: SAP Business One Integration API
  • Kotlin
  • Spring
  • I used Kotlin to build integration APIs for communicating with SAP Business One. These include creating an API to fetch warehouses, customer lists, and items.
  • I used Spring framework as the framework of choice for building and availing the APIs to another system.
Website Links
  • http://44.193.137.191:8099/swagger/index.html
Front End Developer
Passion Project
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Digital Supply chain Platform Limited Company
Technology Industry
Project: Kotlin on Spring Angular Authentication
  • Angular
  • Typescript
  • Bootstrap
  • CSS
  • Nodejs
  • HTML
  • ExpressJS
  • I used Angular as my frontend framework to build the web user interface and consume the APIs.
  • I used Typescript to build the interactive single-page application.
  • I used HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap classes to create and style HTML elements.
  • I used NodeJS with ExpressJS to create a rest API to handle authorization and authentication.
Github Links
  • https://github.com/JosephKithome/Angular-Rest-Api-Authentication
Full Stack Developer
Contract
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
ICT Authority of Kenya Company
Technology Industry
Project: Complaints Management System
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Used Laravel as the core system for building a Judiciary complaints system.
  • Used PHP as the core language for writing the entire business logic.
  • Used HTML to create the form structure of the application.
  • Used JavaScript for making the web app dynamic and updating the content in real-time and used CSS for styling the web application.
Github Links
  • https://github.com/jmulingwa/jcms
Developer
Passion Project
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
LD Talent Company
Technology Industry
Project: Crawl paginated data using Flask and Selenium
  • Flask
  • Python Selenium
  • Pandas
  • Python
  • Used Python to write the algorithms for the business logic.
  • Used Python Selenium to automate web browsers that enabled me to scrape data from different pages.
  • Used Flask as my framework of choice to build web APIs for the scraped data and return the data in a JSON format.
  • Used Pandas to store the scraped data in a data frame which then enabled me to export the data into excel.
Github Links
  • https://github.com/ldtalent/josephm-crawl-paginated-data-py-selenium-flask
Full Stack Developer
Employment
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Kenya Revenue Authority Company
Government Industry
Project: Human Resource Survey System
  • Sendgrid API
  • Bootstrap
  • CSS
  • Django
  • HTML
  • I used Django to build the Business Logic to be consumed by the frontend client.
  • I used HTML and CSS to build and style the web frontend of the application by overriding some of the Bootstrap classes.
  • I used Bootstrap which is a CSS framework to quickly produce some styled-components.
  • Integrated with SendGrid API to enable mail sending inside and outside the application.
Full Stack Developer
Contract
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Kenya Revenue Authority Company
Government Industry
Project: Revenue Dashboard
  • Flask
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Python
  • AJAX
  • Used HTML to code the structure of the dashboard.
  • Used CSS to style the web app's HTML content and describe how the pages should be displayed.
  • Used JavaScript to create the interactivity of the website and Ajax to read data from a web server after the page has loaded and also update a web page without reloading the page.
  • Used Python to create the business logic of the website.
  • Used Flask for the backend of the web app.
Front End Developer
Internship
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Intsoft (k) Limited Company
Technology Industry
Project: Icoms
  • Android native app development
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • XML
  • REST
  • Used Java and Kotlin for Android native app development for a frontend that is consuming restful APIs from the backend API.
  • Used XML to design what the user interface of the mobile app would look like.
Qualifications
Education
Maasai Mara University
Sep 2015 - Dec 2019
B.Sc (Computer Science)
Courses
Introduction to SQL servers
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Data Camp
  • Microsoft SQL Server
Associate Android Developer
Course Certificate Link
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Andela Learning Community
  • Kotlin
  • Java
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