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Ian O - Postgres developer
Member since:Aug 25, 2020
Profile last updated:Sep 12, 2020
Last activity:Oct. 2, 2020, 11:02 p.m. UTC
Location:
Kenya

Ian O

ENGINEER

Robust experience working in large teams, capable of achieving intended concepts according to the requirements, poised and committed to giving and receiving feedback and incorporating the same to surpass set expectations.

Skills:   Postgres  ·  Ruby on rails  ·  Redis  ·  Python  ·  React  ·  Redux  · 
Weekly Availability: 45 hours
Day UTC PST
Mon 06 - 15 22 - 07
Tues 06 - 15 22 - 07
Wed 06 - 15 22 - 07
Thurs 06 - 15 22 - 07
Fri 06 - 15 22 - 07

Partime Freelancer
Experience: 2 yrs
Postgres: 2 yrs
Ruby on rails: 1+ yrs
Redis: 1 yrs
Python: 1 yrs
React: 1 yrs
Redux: 1 yrs
Engineer's Devices:
Linux
Android

Experiences
RebelsMarket Inc     Droshipify     Software Engineer     Contract
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Ecommerce

  • Wrote and maintained reliable Ruby code
  • Integrated data storage solutions
  • Created back-end components that were used to interact with front-end components.
  • Identified and fixed bottlenecks and bugs
  • Maintained and developed Ruby on Rails APIs used to handle different inventory tasks within the company.

Skills used: Ruby on rails


Andela     VOF     Software Engineer     Employment
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Technology

  • Built a monolith application using Ruby on Rails that was used in the recruitment of Junior Engineers in my workplace.
  • The framework was used to handle the controllers and model interactions in the application as well as automated jobs and mailing to the candidates and recruiters in the application.
  • Used CoffeeScript to handle the view of the application, JQuery which was used to take care of DOM manipulations, such as handling click events, and AJAX for making requests to the back-end.
  • We used Redis for caching of data from commonly made requests to reduce the lookup time.
  • The application was built to use a Postgres database.

Skills used: Redis, Ruby on rails, Postgres


Andela     Author's Haven     Software Engineer     Employment
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Technology

  • Used Django Rest Framework(Python) to build an API for a Medium clone.
  • The front-end was built using React to consume the API. In order to effectively handle the state of the application, we used Redux together with React.
  • The application was built to use a Postgres database.

Skills used: Python, React, Redux, Postgres



Link to the project: https://ah-shakas-frontend-staging.herokuapp.com/

Link to the github: https://github.com/andela/ah-shakas, https://github.com/andela/ah-shakas-frontend

Education
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology    B.Sc  (Electronics and Computer Engineering)
Sep 2012 - Nov 2017