Contract

Position: Web Developer

Duties:

Designing Internal Web Based Software that handles the day to day business info of the company and generates, reports, charts, invoices, and other automated features.

This helps increase speed and efficiency and reduce errors when they need to provide information in a timely manner.

Included generated invoice as pdf's, user login, segmented data by organisation so a new user creates a new organisation and users inside the organisation with segmented rights taken directly from django's user permission models to determine the user's rights.

Start Date: Aug. 19, 2019

End Date: Oct. 21, 2019

Position: Web Developer

Duties:

I designed the site based on the interest of what’s important, giving you a first-hand view of what each chalet offers and how it looks like from multiple angles and available rooms.

The booking information is integrated with an online booking system so the calendar shows the booked dates.

There's a variety of differently styled pages with a variety of content so each page feels new but still easy and intuitive to navigate through.

Start Date: May 2, 2019

End Date: Nov. 20, 2019

Position: Web Developer

Duties:

The first step was using existing data from the current WordPress site then building a new frontend design to work with the current data and new information that was added on top of it. From restructuring the content and pages and adding animation to show more with less space, all this added up to an interactive user experience.

Since its launch, additional features have been added for new products and ideas.

Start Date: Oct. 1, 2018

End Date: To Date

Contract

Position: Developer

Duties:

I was hired to work with a person who does advertising in places with high traffic of people like Malls, and with flatscreens with cameras they wanted a system that can track people and do analysis on how they react to the content they see on the screen. The people watching could have tailor made advertising targeting them, for example if women are watching it can show ads targeting women and a combination of this can be done such as sex, age and other factors.

Using Quvidi: a system that processes the information from a camera using facial recognition and returns information like the number of people, age, sex, how many are concentrating on the screen, their mood which can be related to how well they react to the content on the screen, with/without glasses, among other features I integrated the input to a python script that would send data to their platform used to switch ads and provided a webpage to add the rules for each ad so you can specify which group it targets.

Start Date: July 10, 2017

End Date: Sept. 22, 2017

Contract

Position: Web Developer

Duties:

The project was to design a job listing site, with intention to eventually integrate some analysis to filter the best candidates based on the skills and the job requirements.

This was a fresh start so there was no existing site to inherit specs from. Some of the features included logging in from 3rd party sites like: Google, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

All post requests included csrf token for increased security.

To simulate content added on the fly on the page after process finishes using jQuery at the time, the post request got back valid html to add where needed.

Start Date: April 19, 2017

End Date: Oct. 4, 2017

KenyaBuzz

Position: Web Developer

Duties:

The site was already existing at the time I joined but needed a number of updates to keep it relevant. This started by moving the movie ticketing system from an iframe and hosted by a 3rd party to internal and all logic inbuilt. This meant there needed to have a booking system that showed the booked seats in the cinema, the ability to select any seat not booked, you can proceed then to pay using a payment gateway then receive your e-ticket as a pdf in your email. The cinema would also get a verification version so they can verify it when you arrive. No printing necessary, just show it at the attendant and go in.

Later on, since they did advertise and listing of events happening in Kenya there came a need to offer the option to do ticketing for any event that wanted to. This was similar to the ticketing for movies only with a different ruleset like a maximum number of tickets which if left blank would mean it had none, type of tickets each with its own unique expiry date.

The second priority was designing a mobile site which wasn’t available at the moment. There was two options for doing this, either rewrite the current template to work with mobile or use a device detection tool so the page would use different templates based on the device type, desktop or mobile. We went with the second option at first, to avoid any issues for desktop users with intention to move on to the second later on.

It also became clear with time the process of selecting the cinema, movie and time took some time since it involved a back and forth ajax request. I solved this by having it cache the whole output for all the results at the start so navigation became instant with a single request at the last step to check if more seats were booked since the page loaded. This essentially made it an offline first experience.

An additional issue cropped up with the server being hit with multiple requests at the time till it timed out and went offline, it was setup using Apache at the time, the same setup I found it with and since the downtime tends to happen outside working hours I worked on a script that would check if the site was down and if so would restart it. Using that and logging the time it restarted it, I could figure out why at a more relaxed pace, eventually it was moved from hosting on WebFaction to AWS and the issue resolved itself. It might be also that gunicorn which was used now handled the load better.

The project was setup using an older version of Django so part of the process of updating the site included to use the newest version at the time of Django and fixing and issues from the upgrade from 1.5 to 1.8.

Start Date: March 13, 2015

End Date: March 13, 2017

Lamu Software

Position: Junior Developer

Duties:

This was my first job as a web developer, I worked with experienced developers who taught me how to keep my code clean, avoid pits, how to fix issues on the fly and deal with customers since the job included site visits where you visit a client’s office and I as the developer and my superior as the business head would talk to them and my part would be to make sure the requests were feasible and if it would interfere with other existing features inform them including providing a timeline and finally they’d discuss on the project’s cost.

Start Date: Dec. 5, 2012

End Date: Dec. 5, 2014