Lydia N
Software Engineer Preferred Title
$20.00 /hr $ 30.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
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
- Desktop Linux
- Phone Android
- Member Since Feb 03, 2020
- Profile Last Updated Aug 13, 2020
- Last Activity Aug. 14, 2020, 12:06 p.m. UTC
- Location Uganda
Profile Summary
I am a passionate and detail-oriented software engineer with several years of experience in building dynamic software products.
Skills
Total Experience: 6 years
Python (3Y)
3 years of experienceData visualization (3Y)
3 years of experienceMongoDB (3Y)
3 years of experienceData Science (3Y)
3 years of experienceMachine learning (3Y)
3 years of experiencePostgres (2E)
2 experiencesRuby on rails (2E)
2 experiencesRSpec (2E)
2 experiencesJavaScript
Redis
AWS
Docker
Twilio API
Ruby
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 6h PST, 48h UTC
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UTC
06 - 14
06 - 14
06 - 14
06 - 14
06 - 14
06 - 14
PST
23 - 07
23 - 07
23 - 07
23 - 07
23 - 07
23 - 07
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
Employment
May 2020 - Present
Sunbird AI Company
Research Industry
Project: Ope Source Covid19 Social Media Data Analysis
- I developed data collection pipelines in Python for fetching social media data from Facebook as well as news data from newspaper websites
- I am part of a team that applies Data Science tools like Numpy and Pandas to draw insights from the data collected
- I am part of a team that applies Data visualization tools like Matplotlib to the collected data in order to present it to stakeholders
- I am part of a team developing AI tools for community benefit by collecting and analyzing data, then training and using Machine learning models to draw insights from it
- In my data collection pipeline, I store collected data in MongoDB databases on an AWS server
Software Engineer
Contract
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Tezza Business Solutions Company
Ecommerce Industry
Project: Connect API
- I built and maintained a back end API in Ruby on rails for a Customer Relationship Management app using Net Promoter Score metrics
- The data for the application was stored in a Postgres database, while caching was done using Redis
- The application was running on Docker
- Project resources like images were stored on AWS. I worked on a feature for allowing a user to add or update a profile picture, which would then be stored in an AWS S3 bucket
- I implemented Net Promoter Score surveys to non-email users through sending and receiving of SMS with the Twilio API and AfricasTalking API
Software Engineer
Contract
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Sparkplug Company
Ecommerce Industry
Project: MTN MoMo API Ruby gem
- I developed a Ruby gem that wraps around the MTN Mobile Money API, allowing Ruby developers smooth access to the API in order to include mobile money transactions in Ruby projects
- I wrote tests for the gem using Rspec
Software Engineer
Employment
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Andela Company
Technology Industry
Project: VOF
- I was a member of a team developing a recruiting software used for hiring new Andela developers, using Ruby on rails for the back end
- The front end was written in a mixture of plain Javascript, Coffeescript and Jquery
- The data stores used were Postgres and Redis, and tests were written in Rspec
Qualifications
Education
Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology, Algiers
Sep 2015 - Jul 2018
B.Sc (Computer Science)