Personal details

Barasa P. - Remote full-stack developer

Barasa P.

Fullstack Engineer
Based in: šŸ‡°šŸ‡Ŗ Kenya
Timezone: Nairobi (UTC+3)

Summary

Versatile, forward-looking Software Engineer with 10+ years of background in developing and executing innovative software solutions to enhance business productivity. Highly experienced in all aspects of the software development lifecycle and end-to-end product management, from concept through to development and delivery. Consistently recognized as a hands-on and competent leader, skilled at coordinating cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment to steer timely project completion within budgetary constraints.

Work Experience

Remote Software Engineer Consultant/Developer
Savannah Data Solutions | Sep 2020 - Present
JavaScript
Microsoft SQL Server
Remote software development/consulting for Savannah Data Solutions for their Learning Management System and other systems. Available at https://github.com/oumabaros/MyLMS ā€¢ The LMS was developed using ASP.Net Core (C#) MVC, Javascript, REST Web Services, Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, and MSSQL Server. It has capabilities to upload exams, edit questions and quizzes, score tests that were taken, and report in both Excel and PDF. ā€¢ Assisted the onshore and oļ¬€shore application development team to verify adherence to the highest level of quality standards while also ensuring that all requirements are accurately met. ā€¢ Modiļ¬ed HTML, JavaScript, and CSS web pages to optimize the application's performance for faster loading and browsing. ā€¢ Utilized software engineering expertise to develop the application throughout the software lifecycle to boost business eļ¬ƒciency, from ideation and requirements deļ¬nition through to development and successful deployment. ā€¢ Enhanced the applicationā€™s features to eļ¬€ectively ļ¬x the bugs and optimize the overall performance, reliability, and eļ¬ƒciency. ā€¢ Demonstrated expertise in translating the clientā€™s speciļ¬c needs into easy-to-understand software solutions leading to a product that captured all the requirements demanded by the customer.
Systems Developer
Thornsoft International Ltd. | Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
jQuery
JavaScript
Microsoft SQL Server
Bootstrap 4
ā€¢ Designed, transformed, deployed and tested the existing desktop-based HR/Payroll systems to a web-based cloud platform on .NET Core. Also charged with the installation and training of the same. Available at https://github.com/oumabaros/hrmis_3_1_compiled ā€¢ Demonstrated expertise in translating our clientā€™s speciļ¬c need into easy-to-understand HR/Payroll software solutions during sales presentations, leading to the successful closing of 3 major contracts generating over 3 million Kenya Shillings in business revenue. Proļ¬ciently troubleshoot simple and complex technological issues for diļ¬€erent clients of our HR/Payroll systems, achieving over 90% customer satisfaction rate. Enhanced the applicationā€™s features to eļ¬€ectively ļ¬x the bugs and optimize the overall performance, reliability, and eļ¬ƒciency. ā€¢ Utilized my software engineering expertise to develop the solution throughout the software lifecycle to boost business eļ¬ƒciency, from ideation and requirements deļ¬nition through to development and successful deployment. ā€¢ Documented all supported systems and applications to eļ¬€ectively train new and existing team members. ā€¢ Determined areas for improvements by periodically monitoring the developed HR/Payroll company systems to consistently boost our clients' business eļ¬ƒciency. ā€¢ Modiļ¬ed HTML, JavaScript, and CSS web pages to optimize the pageā€™s performance for faster loading and browsing.

Education

Egerton University
Bachelor's degree惻Computer Science
Aug 2001 - May 2006

Personal Projects

Book Catalog & ReviewIconOpenNewWindows
2022
Python
Django
MySQL
Bootstrap 4
This is a Book Review Application that has provisions for adding Books and their details and managing their reviews from various reviewers. Working on this project as a way of learning Python and Django. I am developing it using Python, Django and MySQL.