Software Engineer

IAN RIOBA FELIX

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070*******, Nairobi, Kenya

SKILLS

Proficient - JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Golang Frameworks/Libraries - React, NextJS, Node.js, Vue.js, React Native, Flask, NestJS Databases - MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis

Tools - VS Code, Netlify, GitHub, GitLab, Postman, AWS, Vite EXPERIENCE

Global Link Plus- Frontend Software Engineer Feb 2023 - Present

- Develop and maintain web applications as well as manage database systems. Our platform uses AWS MySQL to store customer transactions and relay real-time data on the frontend

- Driving business sales by cutting on time to ship the product by 50% thus growing our business by delivering working prototypes of our product to early customers.

- Developed a mini-UI framework that is applied within our frontend layer of react, tailwind, and react server components.

Bidco Africa - Data Scientist June 2022 - Feb 2023

- Automation of redundant tasks within the company’s departments using Python, Kubernetes, and Javascript. Some automation tasks include extracting data using SQL from data warehouses, scraping data from competitors' websites, and ETL pipelines for data dashboards.

- Designing machine learning models that give insights into customer sales and orders, for example, clustering of sales done per region and prediction of sales using time series analysis.

Guru Analytics - Data Scientist April 2021 - May 2022

- Designing web applications using Python and Django systems for government institutions to help them in their data management system.

- Designed a scoring model to evaluate customers who will default on credit consumer loans in mobile banks. This helped our banking partner to save up to 60% on defaulted loans. OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES

SPACE YA TECH - KENYAN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT Nov 2022 - Present

- As a frontend developer in an open-source project involving around 1000 members throughout our country. I work hand in hand with UI/UX designers to implement wireframes and UI/UX mockups.

- We are collaborating, pair coding, and mentoring other open-source contributors in our open-source project.

VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE

Ascent Leadership Training Program Facilitator 2020 - 2021

- Being part of a mentorship program on campus that aimed at challenging young people through various experiences and avenues of brainstorming to work together, servant leadership, integrity, and excellence.

Python Programming 2020 - 2021

- Teaching young kids between 9 and 12 years old Python programming language and developing two games using Python and Pygame as our projects while still learning the essentials of how computers work.

EDUCATION

Jenga School - Software Engineering Accelerated Program (SEPA) Jan - June 2022 Software Engineering: Web development, mobile development Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology 2016- 2021 Statistics, Mathematics: BSc, Financial Engineering

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