CURRICULUM VITAE
OTIENO, LINDA ACHIENG’
San Francisco, California
Cell: -
E-Mail:-| LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindachieng/
Github: https://github.com/LindaKadz/ | Portfolio: http://achienglinda.ml
SUMMARY OF SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Skills in Elixir, Phoenix, Sinatra, Object Oriented Programming using TDD and BDD
using Ruby, Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, building API, Linux OS, Front End
Development with HTML, CSS, Zurb Foundation, ReactJS, Gulp and Advanced SaaS,
Mobile Application development(iOs and Android) with Flutter and React Native,
Docker, Database Management (Postgresql, MySQL, Ecto), Elastic Search and Kibana,
Redis, CI/ CD with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Services, Travis, and Heroku
Agile Methodology.
Skills in social event organizing and media management, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
YouTube.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Strong planning and organizing abilities towards organizational achievement.
I am a team player and able to work well with fellow staff and partners
I am flexible and excel in adjusting and learning quickly in new situations or when
deadlines and priorities change
EDUCATION
Aug. 2013 :
BSc. International Business Administration, Concentration Marketing and Entrepreneurship with
Minor in Chinese at United States International University- Africa.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
I attend the Google Developers Conference held in different parts of the country
annually.
Attended the entrepreneurship seminar organized by League of Young Professional
Kisumu Chapter in 2012.
Attended Training of Trainers organized by The CommonWealth
Attended Podii code Bootcamp for 13 weeks
WORK EXPERIENCE
October 2017- Current: Software tester and developer at Podii. I build and actualize
features, depending on the need of the problem statement, using Elixir or Ruby. I have headed
setting up of automated deployment of applications to either AWS, GCP or Heroku using Gitlab
CI. I emphasize on having tests, depending on the language being used, as we develop; either
Rspec, Cucumber, Wallaby or Intergration tests.
I have managed to start community events that allows people who want to learn how to code to
join through meet ups like Girls Get Geeky, Rails Girls Kisumu and Nile Devs.
Podii Academy Tutor.
I tutor the students who are enrolled in Podii Academy Front-End development, Test Driven
Development and Behavior Driven Development (Rspec, Jasmine, Cucumber), ReactJs, React
Native and Mobile Application Development using Flutter.
April 2018: Game Developer at UNESCO
I was contracted by UNESCO for a month to build traditional games as mobile apps games,
using React Native, that were played by kids in the 80’s and 90’s; the games were selected from
the 42 tribes in the country. I led the deployment of the apps to Amazon Mobile Services
May 2018 – February 2019: Lead Ruby Developer at Sororitie
Sororitie is a women’s only booking app that I built using Ruby on Rails yet to be officially
launched. I was the lead developer, designed and structured the database using Entity Relational
Diagram (ERD), built the back end with Ruby on Rails, enabled search using Elastic Search, to
make the site incredibly fast, we used Redis for Caching and integrated payment using Stripe.
I am also the one managing their Gitlab account, I merge requests after review, review pull
requests. Using TravisCI, deployment happens automatically every time new features are added
and they meet the required standards.
Jan 2015- April 2017: Freelance Web & App developer.
While working at Amazing Kisumu, did freelance web and app development for clients using
front end frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, React. This helped me build and improve my
coding skills and learn amazing frameworks like TypeScript which still amazes me. I convinced
small businesses the importance of having a website and application which they embraced.
April 2013- Aug. 2016: Intern at Amazing Kisumu.
As an intern, I managed their social media pages, created content for the pages and website; I
also wrote blogs and managed their then wordpress site. As an intern, my major achievement
was making Amazing Kisumu the go to marketing firm.
Events Head at Amazing Kisumu.
As the events lead, I managed to get authorization from TedX to hold the first TedX Kisumu
and permission from YALI to hold the first ever YALI Kisumu. We become the sort most sort
after marketing and events company in Kisumu.
Operations Officer.
As the operations head, I ensured smooth company activities. I initiated projects and gave go
ahead on intern projects. I made decisions on which technology to be used on the site through
discussions and opinions from the developers that were present. I brought in partners, initiated
the transition and built a new Amazing Kisumu website using Ruby on Rails. Being a blog site,
we hosted it on AWS, S3 bucket where we saved images. We did the uploading using
Cloudinary, the Attachinary gem. The partners we brought in were for the community service
projects I had initiated.
References are available upon request.
