Boniface Thuku

Solution seeker and passionate learner of new technologies in software

development.

Nairobi, Kenya

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adamzd@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

SOVTECH, South Africa — Fullstack Javascript Developer February 2019 - PRESENT

Full Stack developer working remotely on both frontend and backend to deliver features and optimize an insurance product in production. Technologies used:

- ReactJS to create reusable components across all the application

- Immutable JS and Redux sagas to manage state

- Node JS to create AWS lambda functions

- DynamoDB a

Responsibilities:

- Refactoring the application by creating reusable components

- Updating deprecated lifecycle methods

- Replacing DynamoDB Scan functions with Queries.

- Consuming third party APIs

Andela, Kenya —Software Developer

July 2017 - October 2019

I have grown at Andela from a junior developer to an Intermediate Software Engineer since joining. I have learnt to work with a distributed team and work on deliverables in a time constrained environment and communicate progress of a product to relevant stakeholders

Technologies Used:

- ReactJs/Redux

- Python Flask

- GraphQL

- React Native

Responsibilities:

- Onboarding new devs on continuing project and assisting them on setting up dev environments.

- Peer Reviewing PRs

- Holding pairing programing sessions

- Deploying applications on Zeit and Heroku

Technical Skills

Javascript.

ReactJS/Redux/Sagas.

NodeJs/Express.

Lambda functions

DynamoDB.

Python/Flask

Non Technical Skills

Managing expectations

Clear and effective

communication

Stakeholder management

LANGUAGES

English, Swahili

EDUCATION

Multimedia University, Kenya — BSc Computer Science September 2013 - November 2017

Learnt the basics of computing and created an application to track the number of accidents on the roads.

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