Stephen K
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SOFTWARE ENGINEER Preferred Title
$17.00 /hr $ 50.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History - Worksession Approval 100.0%
- Average Response Time 1.3 hours
- Average Count of Messages/Day 0.7
- Project Completion Rate 2/4
- Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
- Timezone Overlap 10h PST, 40h UTC
- Earned Hours 6.00
- 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 Jun 05, 2020
- Profile Last Updated Jun 16, 2021
- Last Activity June 15, 2023, 8:23 p.m. UTC
- Location Kenya
Profile Summary
Skilled Software Engineer experienced in Python (Flask and FastAPI) and React with DevOps process Understanding including supporting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments in AWS, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes
Skills
Total Experience: 7 years
React (2E, 6Y)
2 experiences, across 6 yearsKubernetes (1E, 6Y)
1 experience, across 6 yearsAWS S3 (1E, 6Y)
1 experience, across 6 yearsGoogle Cloud (1E, 6Y)
1 experience, across 6 yearsTerraform (1E, 6Y)
1 experience, across 6 yearsDocker (1E, 6Y)
1 experience, across 6 yearsPython (2E, 6Y)
2 experiences, across 6 yearsFlask (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsGIS (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsAWS (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsAnsible (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsBash (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 years
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 10h PST, 40h UTC
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
UTC
07 - 15
07 - 15
07 - 15
07 - 15
07 - 15
PST
00 - 08
00 - 08
00 - 08
00 - 08
00 - 08
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 Developer
Employment
Aug 2017 - Present
SpatialKey Company
Technology Industry
Project: Data Engr / DevOps Engr
- GIS
- Flask
- Bash
- Ansible
- React
- AWS
- Python
- Shaped my team workflows increasing speed and quality of our deliveries by incorporating automation with Python on most of our workflows and created documentation around them.
- Slashed the release process 75% by automating the configuration management using ansible playbooks and minimizing human errors deploying to AWS Infrastructure.
- Reduced the amount of time taken to update datasets for clients by half with automation around manual repetitive workflow using bash.
- Minimized the time we take to integrate third-party partners GIS data with our system from around three weeks to one week with automation.
- Creating APIs using Python frameworks. FastAPI and Flask. The client side was created using react framework
Software Developer
Employment
Nov 2016 - Present
Andela Company
Technology Industry
Project: Software Developer
- Docker
- AWS S3
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud
- Terraform
- React
- Python
- Improved developer workflow, increased stability and scalability of our systems by breaking up the monolithic apps into Micro-Services using docker containers and Kubernetes.
- Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using CircleCI Deploy and Travis to Google Cloud Platform(GCP).
- Actively managed, and monitored cloud infrastructure on GCP, VMs, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling using Ansible and Terraform.
- Maintained static content like images on AWS s3 buckets.
- Integrated Python Flask/FastAPI APIs with Client side created using react framework.
Qualifications
Education
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Sep 2012 - Jun 2016
B.SC (Analytical Chemistry)
Reviews
Client Project Reviews
personal
Responsive and quick
Interview Reviews
dynamicinsight
Interview was good, but focus was more on DevOps than on backend work. Will contact again in case we need someone for DevOps work