Personal details

Daniel M. - Remote back-end developer

Daniel M.

Based in: 🇰🇪 Kenya
Timezone: Nairobi (UTC+3)

Summary

Experienced software engineer with over 5 years of industry experience with skills in creating robust and scalable back-end systems. Skills include Golang, Python, and JavaScript and adaptability to company tech stack to fit business needs. Daniel is very excited about problem-solving and collaborating with others in the process. Previous accomplishments include launching an investment platform for SMEs, spearheading his team's on-call/monitoring efforts to reduce error/failure rates, etc. An empathetic team player passionate about mentorship and growth.

Work Experience

Backend Engineer
Frontdoorhome | Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
C#
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
TypeScript
React
Splunk
Apache Kafka
Go (Golang)

- Facilitate stabilization of the legacy systems in the payments team.
- Design and implement the development of microservices to upgrade some legacy systems.

- Lead on-call, alerting and monitoring effortw - Improve logging for our microservices which makes it easier to implement alerting and dashboards. This made it easier to handle on-call incidences and made it possible for non-tech staff to understand how the services are working.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business users, project managers and other stakeholders to achieve elegant solutions.