John Kariuki
- | -| LinkedIn | Nairobi, Kenya
Full Stack Software Developer
Adaptable and result-oriented professional with 4+ years experience building pleasant user experiences. Admirable interpersonal skills, a champion communicator and superb leadership abilities capable of managing projects and people. Life long learner that continuously ventures into new technologies. Dedicated developer with the desire to be part of a fast-paced engineering team with a personal goal of growing the culture and performance by upholding industry standards.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Javascript (ReactJS, NodeJS, ES6) ⧫ HTML ⧫ CSS ⧫ SASS ⧫ Gulp ⧫ PHP (Laravel) ⧫ Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery ⧫ Agile development ⧫ Test Driven Development ⧫ Git / Version Control ⧫ Database
Caching ⧫ RESTful APIs ⧫ AWS ⧫ Google Cloud Platform ⧫ Docker ⧫ Remote Procedure Calls
WORK EXPERIENCE
First Access, New York, NY - Mid-Senior Level Developer
OCTOBER 2016 - MAY 2018
Improved the data configuration time significantly through a configuration management service.
Developed a client facing dashboard as part of a distributed team in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and New York that eases the data collection for loan appraisals in emerging markets.
Andela, Nairobi, Kenya - Software Engineer
DECEMBER 2015 - CURRENT
Scaled internal services by restructuring our monolith applications into independently managed microservices.
Grew the test coverage on the internal services up to 75% and set the lower limit threshold of the same to ease development for the distributed teams.
Pplr, Nairobi, Kenya - Founder and Lead Software Developer
JANUARY 2015 - SEPTEMBER 2015
Managed a team of 5 in a missed call marketing platform that took advantage of the high data rates in East Africa. The service offered services through SMS and voice based off free phone calls.
Scotch.io - Author
MAY 2015 - CURRENT
Contributing author on Scotch, garnering close to half a million views from 250, 000 readers.
Codementor - Mentor
JANUARY 2017 - CURRENT
Maintained a five-point average rating mentoring developers on new and existing projects.
EDUCATION
First Class Honors degree in Information Technology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (J.K.U.A.T), class of 2015.
