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Grace Phiri
Lusaka, Zambia ************@*****.*** +260*********
EXPERIENCE
Software Developer
Hokma Incs limited company 2019 - 2020
Bootstrapped & led a team of 4 developers to modernize fulfillment automation using a novel human-in-the-loop approach, unlocking an 80% increase in operational scale for a 40-person team.
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Increased software development velocity by mentoring 4 developers and facilitating user interviews, leading to consistent resolution of 90% of bug reports within 24 hours.
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Built and maintained distributed systems that served 1M daily requests, coordinating with operations, business, technical, and customer teams to serve cross-functional priorities.
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Built CI/CD pipelines to lint, build, test, review, and deploy containerized applications to production <30 minutes after development with Docker, GitHub Actions, and Heroku.
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Led initiative in a team of 8 engineers to improve engineering on-call system, reducing the number of alerts per shift by 50% without dropping mission-critical information.
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• Streamlined critical operational processes to achieve a 6% boost in productivity for a team of 40 operators. Software Engineer Intern
Timmerman Industries 2020 - June 2022
Created and maintained cloud-based service endpoints with Python, Flask, & Django, increasing service uptime to 99% for an early-stage machine vision startup.
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• Designed & developed intuitive UIs for internal users to train & deploy new machine learning models, decreasing manual set-up time by 90%.
• Developed embedded software for an ML-powered camera product, achieving 10X system throughput using concurrent programming. Generated & curated visual AI training data and tested deep learning systems to ensure 90% accuracy with <10% training data compared with competitors.
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Script Programmer
2022 – May 2023
Bootstrapped project to automate reporting while part of a team of hazardous waste management specialists, eliminating 25% of reporting labor using custom UIs and 3rd-party API calls.
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• Wrote one-off scripts to automate revisions of thousands of legacy reports, cutting manual editing hours by 80%. PROJECTS
Develop a TV app using Java
Develop a VPN App using Java
Develop a weather App using Kotlin
Web-Based Musical Instrument
• Prototyped and deployed a music-based web app in 2 days using React, Flask, and AWS EC2. Hosted the code on GitHub. EDUCATION
Diploma in Modern App Development
ALISON UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
DMI ST EUGENE University • 2022-225
SKILLS
Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL
Frameworks: Flask, Django, Node, App extensions, toolkit Tools: Unix, Bash, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, Cloud, Heroku, CI/CD, PostgreSQL