James M
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Software Engineer Preferred Title
$61.25 /hr $ 40.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History - Average Response Time 12.0 hours
- Average Count of Messages/Day 0.2
- Project Completion Rate 2/4
- Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
- Timezone Overlap 43h PST, 49h 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 4.0/5
- Technical Breadth 4.0/5
- Algorithmic Thinking 4.0/5
- Technical Strength 4.0/5
- Teamwork 4.0/5
- Intellectual Merit 4.0/5
- English Communication 4.0/5
- Desktop Mac
- Phone Android
- Member Since Feb 10, 2022
- Profile Last Updated Jan 11, 2023
- Last Activity Jan. 11, 2023, 2:32 a.m. UTC
- Location Kenya
Profile Summary
Fullstack Software/Data engineer with experience developing applications, APIs, and data pipelines in JavaScript/Typescript (Reactjs, React Native, Nodejs), and Python. Experience building ELT pipelines, containerization, and deploying products to various cloud environments with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) and Kubernetes.
Skills
Total Experience: 6 years
React (4E, 5Y)
4 experiences, across 5 yearsJavaScript (4E, 5Y)
4 experiences, across 5 yearsNodejs (3E, 5Y)
3 experiences, across 5 yearsTypescript (2E, 4Y)
2 experiences, across 4 yearsKubernetes (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsPython (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsPostgres (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsGraphQL (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsWordpress (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearFMEA Analysis (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearQuality Assurance QA (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a year
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap Per Week: 43h PST, 49h UTC
Day
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UTC
10 - 17
14 - 21
14 - 21
14 - 21
14 - 21
14 - 21
10 - 17
PST
03 - 10
07 - 14
07 - 14
07 - 14
07 - 14
07 - 14
03 - 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
Software/Data Engineer
Employment
Mar 2021 - Present
Ona Kenya Limited Company
Healthcare Industry
Project: OpenSRP
- Nodejs
- Kubernetes
- Typescript
- Python
- Postgres
- React
- JavaScript
- Used React, Ant design, Redux, Typescript, React query, and Enzyme to build new features and fix bugs on the OpenSRP open source project.
- Used Ansible playbooks and Kubernetes to deploy different instances of the OpenSRP project for different clients.
- Used Nodejs, Docker, and JavaScript/Typescript to build new features and fix bugs for the open source OpenSRP keycloak oath 2.0 authentication server.
- Used Airbyte (Python SDK) and Apache Beam to build data pipelines that deliver data to Postgres, Snowflake, and big query data warehouses.
Software Engineer
Employment
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Kakbima ltd Company
Finance Industry
Project: Kakbima insurance
- Nodejs
- GraphQL
- Typescript
- React
- JavaScript
- Developed the Kakbima insurance as a service platform from the ground up with Typescript/JavaScript, React, and GraphQL.
- Design Strategy around authentication and authorization.
- Consume backend GraphQL insurance services with React.js and Apollo GraphQL.
- Developed a Nodejs API for an in-house mobile application using JavaScript/Typescript, Expressjs framework, and Socket.io.
Software Engineer
Employment
Apr 2018 - May 2019
ICT Authority Of Kenya Company
Government Industry
Project: Presidential Digital
- Nodejs
- Wordpress
- React
- JavaScript
- Worked in software, system, and IT support.
- Implemented web design and development using Javascript, React, WordPress, and Nodejs.
QA Engineer
Employment
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Safaricom PLC Company
Telecommunications Industry
Project: ITPD
- FMEA Analysis
- Quality Assurance QA
- React
- JavaScript
- I did business requirements analysis using FMEA Analysis to carry out full business requirements discovery.
- I did business process documentation to ensure that IT systems are aligned with Safaricom's business processes.
- I did Quality Assurance QA testing to verify that requirements are testable and generate testing objectives. Prepared and executed test plans.
- Prototyped web solutions with JavaScript and React.
Qualifications
Education
Chuka University
Sep 2013 - Nov 2017
B.Sc (Applied Computer Science)
Courses
Business Intelligence Analyst
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
IBM
- Data Analytics
Introduction to network operations: UNIX/Linux, Networking and DNS
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Internet Society
- Linux
- UNIX
NGINX Fundamentals: High Performance Servers from Scratch
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Udemy
- WebSockets
- Web Hosting
Docker & Kubernetes: The Practical Guide
Apr 2022 - May 2022
udemy
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
NodeJS - The Complete Guide (MVC, REST APIs, GraphQL, Deno)
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
udemy
- ExpressJS
- MVC
- Nodejs
- REST
- GraphQL
Build Data Visualizations with D3.js & Firebase
Apr 2021 - May 2021
udemy
- D3
- Firebase
- Data visualization