Rufus

Am a Software Engineer by profession with a passion in computer programming, data analysis, server deployment & management, AI & Hybrid Technology Systems.

I earned a diploma from Institue of Advanced Technology(I.A.T) & some professional courses in computer programming, Network Support & User Support.

I began my software engineering career with Code Pamoja as a Backend Engineer in a peer programming with Competa Font End developers in Netherlands develoing a web application for the Haagse Hogeschool (The HagueUniversity).

There I grew nand became one of the divisons top enginers & was poached by UXT as a fullstack engineer(Front end & Backend Engineer) & later promoted to be Innovations & solutions manager. Here I was priviledged to work with Tech giants such as Safaricom, Airtel, Telkom, NIC bank building scalabale applications.

In 2018 I began I decided to change the trajectory of my career to become an entreprenuer and am setting up a firm Giant Tech Designers which is a consulting firm offering ICT solutions such as:

Web & Apps development

Call center set up & Maintenance

Server Configuration & Maintainance

Graphic Design Solutions

Farming Solutions Softwares

Financial Solutions(Sacco systems, Loan systems, MPESA Integration)

Textiles in partnership with Giant clothing supplying School unfiroms, Dust coats, Jumpers, night dress

Here are some the projects I have worked on:

• My Projects

• Mentorship APPlication

  platform for Elearning to coach and mentor young people.

  Ementored Web App

• Ramtons call center

  Call center set up & Maintenance

  Toll Free 0800723723(Sales & Service Center).
  Showroom 0709603001.

• Migrating Jibutel's SMS Gateway

  Upgraded Jibutel's SMS Gateway from Old Safaricom's SDP to the New SDP

• Pepeta Discount USSD *627#

  Bulk Airtime system for resellers & clients at a discount.

• Bebapesa loan App on USSD *653#.

  A lending Application using CRB stats and internal to determine the credit worthiness for users & lending them on a different packages

• MPESA intergration

  on Pay bills for Customer(C2B) to Business,Business to Customer(B2C)/ Bulk payments and Business to Business(B2B) using web services and APIs. Below are the Paybill:

  Bebapsa B2C Paybill: 258088
  Bebapesa C2B Paybill:258084
  Pepeta Discount B2C Paybill: 514553
  Pepeta Discount C2B Paybill: 182715
  Pepeta Discount Till: 999066
  Glassoft Ltd C2B Paybill: 904350
  Glassoft Ltd B2C Paybill: 327659

• VPN connetions for USSD services.

  VPN connetions for USSD services and Airtime systems with Safaricom Server.

• Marketing Tunes | Shortcode 22275 Service Integration.

  Shortcode Service: 22275 for Marketing Tunes(test: SMS ‘Tune’ to 22275) for User Experience Technologies.

• Counselling Service | Shortcode 22284 Service Integration.

  Shortcode Service: 22284 for counselling(test: SMS ‘ask’ then your counselling issue to 22284) for User Experience Technologies.

• Extreme Awards | Shortcode 22275 Service Integration.

  Shortcode Service: 22275 for extreme awards(test: SMS ‘AA3’ to 22275).

• Gaming Service | Shortcode 22275 Service Integration.

  Shortcode Subscription Service: 22275 for betting(test: SMS ‘game’ to 22275).

• Skiza Marketing Tunes Software

  Software to manage artist for User Experience Technologis

• Home Fibre website

  Fiber to the Home website for a UXT's Enterprise Business unit

  Home Fibre

• Car tracking/fuel system

  Developed Car tracking/fuel system for SSL Corp.

• Smootel Sacco system

  Developed Smootel Sacco system for lending to its clients and automating processes.

• Swift Busines

  Dry cleaning Point of software for Glasoft limited.

• CMMS

  CMMS- Centralized Computer Management System for Avvy group.

• Bulk SMS System

  Upgraded UXT's Bulk SMS System.

  Bulk SMS

• Haagse Hogeschool (The Hague University) Student/Admin Management

  Peer to peer programming with COMPETA & CodePamoja we worked on Haagse Hogeschool (The Hague University) Student/Admin Management system which allows exchange students to select courses for their next semester. It has also admin capability of viewing all students’ details.

I find Software Engineer enormously rewarding & am I excited to be part of it as it geered to evolution to improve service delivery as technology keeps changing everyday. Originally we wrote procedural code using libraries. Today, we create OOP programs using OOAD principles and UML diagrams, following the SOLID and DRY principles of good software design. We strive to write code which is easy to maintain and modify. Software design is constantly evolving and the possibilities within it are endless.

Professionally, my primary languages are:

PHP

SQL

C

C++

HTML

bootstrap,CSS,XML-Front end

,

JavaScript

Curl

Perl

Python.

MYSQL,POSTGRESSQL-Databases

startup scripts,JSON,cronjobs- Backend

Bitbucket, Git