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Rita N - Wordpress developer
Member since:Aug 17, 2020
Profile last updated:Oct 07, 2022
Last activity:Oct. 26, 2022, 6:48 p.m. UTC
Location:
Uganda

Rita N

A seasoned Software Engineer with a commitment to continuous learning. Having experience in the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of easy-to-use software solutions. High level of self-motivation, excellent communicator and experienced distributed, team member.

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Weekly Availability: 40 hours
DayUTCPST
Mon10 - 1802 - 10
Tues10 - 1802 - 10
Wed10 - 1802 - 10
Thurs10 - 1802 - 10
Fri10 - 1802 - 10

Hourly Rate:$19.00
Experience:4 yrs
Wordpress:4 yrs
Git:4 yrs
Heroku:3+ yrs
JavaScript:3+ yrs
UI Design:3+ yrs
HTML:3+ yrs
Flask:3 yrs
Engineer's Devices:
Mac
iPhone

LD Talent Work History

Average response time:
0.9 hours
Avg count of messages / Day:
0.5
Average client satisfaction:

Earned hours:
0.50
# Hires / # Interviews :
1 / 7
 

Experiences

MASTER WiZR     Software Developer     Contract
Oct 2022 - Present
Media and Communication

  • Building UI components using React js and managing state with Redux.
  • Standardized all output with a new, responsive, mobile-first approach and strategy to improve user experience through UX Research
  • Refactor legacy code to use Apollo GraphQL.
  • Collaborate with the rest of the distributed team through GIt. To contribute code, perform code reviews and ensure continuous integration.

Skills used: React, Git, UX Research, Redux, Apollo GraphQL



Link to the project:
Udacity     Full Stack Nano-Degree     Mentor     Contract
Feb 2020 - Present
Education

  • The students' projects are built with a primarily flask backend with various API development parts that had a focus of data modelling, proper documentation and access control.
  • The backend supports various JavaScript frontend applications each written in React or Angular as required.
  • The students also get introduced to working with AWS and Docker as a way of packaging development applications and deployment to live servers.
  • Heroku is encouraged to ensure CI/CD and working with a remote database as opposed to using a local database on one's machine.

Skills used: Flask, Heroku, JavaScript, Docker, AWS


Uganda Orthopaedic Society     Uganda Orthopaedic journal     Web Developer     Passion Project
Jan 2019 - Present
Healthcare

  • I designed a newsletter platform using Wordpress for the society as a way for the editorial team to publish periodical newsletters
  • I also picked up experience of working with elements and plugins used on the wordpress platform.

Skills used: Wordpress


Self     My portfolio     Web Developer     Passion Project
Nov 2019 - Present
Media and Communication

  • The project contains code forked using Git from an open source creator.
  • The user interface is built using html and javascript.
  • A great way to practice UI Design by adjusting and customising the pages to suit one's profile.

Skills used: Git, JavaScript, HTML, UI Design



Link to the project:

Link to the github:
Channel Information Technology Support and Leasing Services Corporation     BPOSeats     Full Stack Developer     Contract
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Media and Communication

  • We built and modified user Interfaces using the Vue.js framework. All the frontend applications were built on this framework
  • The backend was powered by Python language and its principles of functional programming.
  • To manage resources in the backend, we made use of REST framework system development with Django. Here we got to organize , serialize and retrieve desired data/information upon request.

Skills used: Python, Vue.js, Django



Link to the project:
ILearn Africa     iLearn     Front End Developer     Contract
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Education

  • React was used to write components for the frontend web application.
  • Redux was used for state management and making sure we were feeding the correct data in requests/responses to the components.
  • Git was the version control tool of choice. The team got to work collaboratively on the project and ensure that additional code went through peer reviews before it was accepted.
  • Agile was used in form of sprints where features were broken down into tasks and worked upon in an iterative manner.

Skills used: Git, Agile, React, Redux


Landire     Landville     Full Stack Developer     Employment
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Real Estate

  • Angular was used to write components for the frontend web application.
  • Django Rest Framework for REST API development.
  • Git was the version control tool of choice. The team got to work collaboratively on the project and ensure that additional code went through peer reviews before it was accepted.
  • We used bootstrap component to style the frontend User Interfaces.

Skills used: Git, Bootstrap, Angular, Django



Link to the project:

Link to the github:
Andela     Authors Haven     Full Stack Developer     Employment
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Arts and Entertainment

  • Django was used to develop a REST API for the Authors Haven application
  • React was used to write components for the frontend web application.
  • Git was the version control tool of choice. The team got to work collaboratively on the project and ensure that additional code went through peer reviews before it was accepted.
  • Heroku was what we used to deploy our application and also ensure Continuous Integration
  • Redux was used for state management and making sure we were feeding the correct data in requests/responses to the components.

Skills used: React, Git, Heroku, Redux, Django



Education

Makerere University    BIT  (Information Technology)
Sep 2010 - Feb 2013

Courses

Full Stack Web Developer    Udacity
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Skills learnt: Angular, Flask, React, Docker, Ionic, AWS EC2