Kelvin M
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Software Engineer Preferred Title
$37.50 /hr $ 65.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History - Average Response Time 20.2 hours
- Average Count of Messages/Day 0.3
- Project Completion Rate 2/4
- Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
- Timezone Overlap 32h PST, 58h 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 5.0/5
- Technical Breadth 5.0/5
- Algorithmic Thinking 4.0/5
- Technical Strength 4.0/5
- Teamwork 4.0/5
- Intellectual Merit 4.0/5
- Desktop Mac
- Phone Android
- Member Since Mar 31, 2021
- Profile Last Updated Dec 05, 2022
- Last Activity March 1, 2023, 9:04 a.m. UTC
- Location Kenya
Profile Summary
I am a full-stack software engineer. I have experience as a team leader where we developed a full-stack application and saw it to production. At the moment, I am looking to become a seasoned senior backend engineer with a lot of languages and technologies under my belt.
Skills
Total Experience: 4+ years
Django (5E, 4Y)
5 experiences, across 4 yearsREST (4E, 4Y)
4 experiences, across 4 yearsPython (5E, 4Y)
5 experiences, across 4 yearsLinux (2E, 2Y)
2 experiences, across 2 yearsBash (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsReact (2E, 2Y)
2 experiences, across 2 yearsPostgres (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearRedis (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearGraphQL (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearFlask (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearTypescript (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearAWS (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 year
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap Per Week: 32h PST, 58h UTC
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
UTC
08 - 20
08 - 20
08 - 20
08 - 20
07 - 17
PST
01 - 13
01 - 13
01 - 13
01 - 13
00 - 10
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
Backend developer
Contract
Dec 2021 - Present
Spinning Your Web Company
Technology Industry
Project: FilePro
- Redis
- Postgres
- REST
- Python
- Django
- Developed the cloud API using Python Django-rest framework with a Postgres database.
- Set up syncing background tasks using Redis and Celery.
Full Stack Developer
Contract
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
Backabuddy Company
Finance Industry
Project: Software Developer
- React
- AWS
- Typescript
- Python
- Django
- Worked as a frontend developer converting desktop and mobile designs into React code using Typescript.
- Developed the API with Python Django-rest framework.
- Set up the deployments on AWS EC2.
Software Developer
Employment
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Kelvin Company
Telecommunications Industry
Project: Adrian Resource Planning
- Bash
- Linux
- REST
- Python
- Django
- Scaled the API performance by changing the code into a multi-database design by taking advantage of Postgres replication to improve database reads and writes in the system.
- Scaled the API performance by increasing the web servers and using an Nginx load balancer to route the traffic.
- Automated all deployment processes on the backend and frontend using circle CI using bash scripts to a Linux server.
- Took up the technical team lead role, analyzed users' needs, and found applications to serve them.
- Actively developed the API in use using the Python Django Rest framework.
Software Engineer
Contract
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Jambo Pay Company
Technology Industry
Project: Tatu city/ Analytics Dashboard
- REST
- Django
- Python
- Linux
- I worked on an incident management system for a third-party client (Tatu city) where clients/customers can raise tickets and follow up on issues raised using Python Django.
- I implemented a single sign-on where a user signed in on the payments platform could easily move to the incidents platform with Restful endpoints.
- I worked on an analytics API tool to show how the different products were performing and did deployments on a Linux server, and integrations with other systems.
Software Engineer
Employment
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
Andela Kenya Company
Technology Industry
Project: Converge
- React
- Flask
- REST
- Python
- Django
- GraphQL
- Worked on optimizing analytics queries on the converge meeting room application on Flask/GraphQL queries.
- Worked on assigning resources to rooms in the backend using SQLAlchemy association objects.
- Worked as a full stack developer using Python Django and React.
- Worked as a backend engineer at the hall of fame where I worked with Django rest.
Qualifications
Education
University Of Nairobi
Jan 2014 - Dec 2018
Applied Mathematics