Stanley Ndono Karanja

STANLEY KARANJA Nairobi 00505-- Summary Relentless problem solver with 14 years hands-on experience in technical planning, designs, analysis, development, deployment, support, customer engagement, GOTO market strategies, driving growth in all verticals, driving adoption, solution upscaling and appraisal with a 10year stint in project management and leadership roles foreseeing production of quality products in line with the companies’ visions and growth strategies in fintech, agritech, retail, manufacturing and banking sectors. I have Bachelor degree of science in field of Applied Statistics and certifications and licenses in project management using Prince2 and CompTIA A+ hardware and software. Core Competences • Proven leadership and management skills with precise organizational expertise. • Multiple expertise in programming languages in .net Framework • Shrewd product analysis and design skills • Excellent communication skills • Mentorship skills • Fast learner and open to learning • Good in developing for new businesses and conversion Work Experience Director, Software Engineering Beta Fresh Limited - Nairobi October 2020 to Present a. Assembled A -teams for data science and software Engineering roles b. Continuously strengthened my leadership and management skills through hands-on experiences c. Created an environment to retain resources even during covid and economic recession d. Lead creation of innovative products targeting the available markets e. Continuously engaged clients through demos and presentations as well as correspondences during the low business duration f. Tracked and assigned tickets on issues raised by customer g. Appraised teams and individual during reviews based on setup matrices of performance Head of Department Eclectics International - Nairobi December 2013 to September 2020 a. Lead in creation and implementation of Dynamic Data Driven Scoring Engine; designed, developed and deployed an alternative data driven lending platform in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda that enabled financial institutions to lend to their clients using an alternative dynamic data credit scoring-engine. b. Supervised data analysis for cooperative bank’s m-wallet generating extra revenue for the company as well as the bank(client). c. Point of contact with stakeholders during engagement with teams. d. Negotiated with clients and other stakeholders like government ministries before carrying out some activities like enumeration of persons e. Lead in implementation of the Cooperative bank’s wallet data analysis recommendation which increased the uptake of the wallet and increase of bank’s customer base by 2% in 2016. f. Lead in creation of a Dairy solution in Kenya and Tanzania’s leading dairy companies. The solution helped ASAS dairies in Tanzania to increase daily collection of milk from 3,000l per day to 15,000l per g. h. i. j. k. day (500%) in a period of 6 months in 2016. Upskilled leadership skills by managing 30 engineers and 10 data scientists as well as many customers in various project Lead in creation of farmer’s database in Rwanda which is used by various stakeholders at a fee. This involved KYF (Know your farmer) mobile app, robust cloud-based web app, running microservices and APIs, managing 200 clerks etc. Gained skills and license in project management after successfully deploying several projects Spearheaded adoption Microsoft Azure to the company through Microsoft4Africa programme. Mentored engineers who have scaled heights to work for FAAMG Senior Software Engineer Compulynx Ltd - Nairobi May 2010 to December 2012 • • • • • • • • User and product requirements gathering and documentation. System design and analysis. Database designs and optimization. System development. User testing. Deployment, support and maintenance. User training and support. Team-lead and coaching. Achievements I. II. Lead in development of the most popular retail solution for East Africa (Core-Smart) that led to onboarding more customers in new regions i.e. Nigeria and UAE Stabilized and optimized the existing retail solutions in the company and a such was able to reduce end of day process from 6hrs to just 6 minutes through refactoring the solution and introducing distributed system as well as optimizing the database queries. Software Developer Fintech Group - Nairobi May 2008 to April 2010 • • • • • • • • User and product requirements gathering and documentation. system design and analysis, Database designs and optimization, system development, user testing, deployment, support and maintenance, user training and support. Achievements I. II. III. IV. V. Developed and implemented the 1st SMS banking platform in Ethiopia as a country in United (Hibret) bank Supported development of new payment platform development in Malawi for MalSwitch Connected several banks to ATMS and cheque clearing systems (Ecobank, ABC bank and Family Bank) Supported and developed solutions for e-Banking supporting the ISO 8583 financial message brokers, switch skills and Universal Serial Bus Developed web-based platforms for fintech such as Internet banking solutions, STPs etc. Management Information Systems Frigoken Limited - Nairobi January 2007 to April 2008 • user and product requirements gathering and documentation. • system design and analysis. • Database designs and optimization. • system development. • user testing, deployment. • support and maintenance. • user training and support. Achievements I. Learned programming practically II. Developed a blue print design for ERP in the leading horticulture exporter in Kenya III. Designed, developed, implemented and supported the companies mini-ERP Education Bachelor's degree in Applied Statistics Maseno University - Nairobi January 2001 to August 2006 Skills Skills Beginner Engineering Intermediate Frameworks Mobile Web Development Front-end • Back-end ReactJS • Python Databases Data Operations • R • Stata, • SPSS, • Power BI Expert • .Net Core • Xamarin • Android Native • CSS • ASP.net • HTML • IIS • MVC • C# • MSSQL • T-SQL • JavaScript • Telerik • WPF • Ajax • VB6 • VBA • VB.Net • Java • Oracle • MySQL Cloud • AWS • Google cloud API Management Other Languages • English – Expert • Kiswahili -Expert • Kinyarwanda - Novice Certifications and Licenses CompTIA A+ Hardware and Software January 2006 to Present PRINCE2 Certification May 2016 to Present • Azure • Restful • SOAPs • Git • SOLID Principle • Prince2 • SNV Tortoise • System design • Database design • Agile • Integration CI/CD • Water fall design • Leadership • Documentation • User Testing • Product testing