Maku Pauline Mazakpe
Software Developer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maku-mazakpe-700a3a
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Kampala, Uganda-
github.com/ma-za-kpe
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Developer, Pelel Enterprises - April/2021 - present - Arua City, Uganda
A start up based in Northern Uganda, whose goal is to help farmers simplify their real life difficulties
through IT.
⇢ Developed & maintained a fully auto-scalable infrastructure using Laravel/Lumen deployed
to AWS, delivering a backend application that is able to rapidly scale up and down based on
the load.
⇢ Created the landing page interface in Javascript, CSS, HTML, and VueJS.
⇢ Forecast & optimized cloud infrastructure costs on AWS, reducing 50% of the total expenses
related to the operations.
⇢ Built, implemented and maintained a user-friendly, reactive and multi modular application
using Android / kotlin, demonstrating MVVM architecture, repository pattern, jetpack
libraries, coroutines, kotlin flow, Dagger Hilt and focus on client’s needs.
⇢ Integrated software monitoring and error tracking tools like Sentry, Firebase analytics, code
pipeline, github actions, improving developer productivity by 80%.
Android Developer, Elimu- November/2019 - August/2020 - Nairobi, Kenya
One of the most talked about Ed-tech companies in Africa and the leading digital educational content
provider in East Africa.
⇢ Integrated the use of agile methodologies like sprints, daily stand ups, using tools like trello to organize
and assign tasks, etc. This continuous delivery and improvement enabled the team to develop more
user centric applications.
⇢ Bridge the communication gap between the Business Development team and the users by
implementing the firebase Cloud messaging feature, which enabled the BD team to effectively deliver
notifications to the users, increasing interactivity by over 30% in 5 months.
⇢ Built and maintained new features all while migrating the app to using modern standards like Kotlin
extension functions, sealed classes, data and view binding, the repository pattern, etc. This removed a
lot of boilerplate code all while boosting developer productivity.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES
⇢ Remote Freelance Android Developer, Accenture - June/2021 - Present - Nairobi, Kenya
⇢ Freelance Web Developer, Infotech - January/2021 - July/2021 - Arua, Uganda
⇢ Volunteer Web Developer, Onita - December/2020 - August/2021 - Arua, Uganda
SIDE PROJECTS
Aerotime: An app that lets you buy airtime, while giving you free airtime. Play store.
Pombe: An MVVM alcohol cocktail application(Github Link) (Play store).
MVVM Nasa Rover: A project showcasing the usage of MVVM, dependency injection and
repository pattern (Github Link) (Play store).
Android Toy App: A project designed to have low coupling and some degree of cohesion.
(Github Link) (Appetizor.io)
Live data network Util: A simple live data android network library. (Github Link)
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES
2018 B.Sc. in Information Technology, Uganda Christian University
Certificate in Software Development - Moringa School - 2018
TECHNICAL SKILLS
(3+ years): Android, Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, MVVM, OOP, Repository pattern, DI, Caching.
(3+ years): Firebase, authentication, firestore, crashlytics (WEB & Android).
(3+ years): Git, Github, Version Control.
(1+ years): Laravel/Lumen, Rest Apis, Mysql, VM’s, Bash.
(1+ years): AWS, codepipeline, elastic beanstalk, ec2, RDS, S3 bucket, load balancers, ssh.
(1+ years): VueJS, html, css, netlify, namecheap.
(1+ years): MEEN STACK, nodejs, express js, mongoDB, heroku.
(Studying): Reactive programming(RxJava), Clean Architecture in Android using kotlin.
LANGUAGES
English - Level of Proficiency (Fluent)
