Lydia N
Software Engineer Preferred Title
$20.00 /hr $ 30.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
Talent's Devices - 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 (5Y)
5 years of experienceData visualization (5Y)
5 years of experienceMongoDB (5Y)
5 years of experienceData Science (5Y)
5 years of experienceMachine learning (5Y)
5 years of experiencePostgres (2E, 2Y)
2 experiences, across 2 yearsRuby on rails (2E, 2Y)
2 experiences, across 2 yearsRSpec (2E, 2Y)
2 experiences, across 2 yearsJavaScript
Redis
AWS (2Y)
2 years of experienceDocker (2Y)
2 years of experienceTwilio API (2Y)
2 years of experienceRuby (2Y)
2 years of experience
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
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)