Clive

Full Stack Engineer Kenya

10 yrs experienceEnglish Fluent

Skills

React.js8yJavascript10yNode.js3y

Secondary skills

TypescriptPhpNext.jsNest.js.net

Experience

Full Stack Engineer

Feb 2021 – Present

Worked with some of the most intelligent programmers on various projects - the most recent and prominent being Meeting recap feature in Teams. Started out as part of the frontend team responsible for building the user interface, and then moved to the backend team. Spent considerable time building and improving the backend service, working continuously to improve its speed and availability. Achieving 99.9% availability globally after months of work was a proud moment for the team, especially considering that we handled millions of requests daily. Worked to improve the service’s resilience by building alternative backup services that could be used in the event of any failure, ensuring user requests would always be handled even during large-scale backend system failures.

User InterfaceWas

Backend Engineer

Feb 2021 – Sep 2024

Worked on the Meeting recap feature in Teams. Started as part of the frontend team and then moved to the backend team. Contributed to achieving 99.9% availability globally. Built alternative backup services to ensure resilience during backend failures.

Frontend Engineer

Aug 2020 – Jan 2021

Joined Andela and was assigned to work with one of Andela's partner organizations called Medable. This was just after the Covid 19 pandemic had started and most countries were under lockdown. Medable was working on a brilliant and timely way to carry out clinical drug trials remotely. Built the frontend components of an app called Site app, enabling medical personnel to interact and record their observations/findings on the study.

Was

Full Stack Engineer

Mar 2019 – Jul 2020

Worked with two separate clients. For the first client, built a machine learning enabled spreadsheet app similar to Microsoft Excel with extra functionality. Used technologies such as React, Tensor Flow, and ML.js, and incorporated Optical Character Recognition with Tesseract and Abbyy-OCR. The second client was the owner of [contact hidden], where I created the web version of the iOS app.

WasIosMachine LearningMicrosoft ExcelReact.js

Frontend Engineer

Oct 2018 – Feb 2019

Worked on freelance projects, mainly involving creating a WordPress theme using React and setting up WordPress sites with interactive user registration forms built using React.

React.jsWordpress

Full Stack Engineer

Oct 2016 – Sep 2018

Teamed up with my brothers to build an Amazon affiliate marketing website. Responsible for technical aspects, including hosting on multiple EC2 instances, setting up elastic load balancing, and creating a custom WordPress theme using React. Worked to speed up performance on mobile devices with AMP pages.

WordpressReact.jsEc2

Frontend Engineer

Nov 2013 – Oct 2014

Conducted various minor jobs focused on HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript. Created full-page landing pages and custom-made PHP websites.

HtmlJavascriptPhpCss

Education

Mechanical Engineering

University of Nairobi · Oct 2006 – Jun 2012