Lusaka, Zambia
I have extensive experience building resilient and efficient systems with solid devops experience with various tools such as Docker, AWS, ansible, shell scripting, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo db and many other tools to get the most performing architecture around the systems that I have worked on.
You need someone that can commit all their focus and work towards a beautiful scaling product, give me a shot and I won't disappoint you as I gain pride by building beautiful pieces of solutions and its my full time career.
English
Django rest framework, aiosmtp, requests, django allauth, pytracking for email manipulation etc
Summary
Building quality websites and applications with Python, Django, Docker,
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Solution oriented web developer with well-rounded experience in software and
architecture development, object-oriented and user-centered design.
Education
evelyn hone college Graduated January 2016 Diploma
2014 - 2016: Studied computer studies at evelyn hone college in Zambia (Diploma
level)
Malundu secondary School Graduated January 2011 O' Level Certificate
2009-2011: Malundu secondary School (grade nine to grade twelve).
Obtained GradeTwelve 'O' Level Certificate.
Nakatete basic school
Graduated January 2008
certificate
2000-2008: Nakatete basic school (one to grade eight). Obtained Grade
Nine Certificate.
Employment History
Em13 LLC - Trinidad, Caribean
Lead software engineer
May 2019 - present
I mostly work on the core email marketing application, building efficient email
delivery and tracking tools around it and also building the API for our third
party mailer companies to integrate with s.
Technologies I worked with
- Python
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Git/GitHub
- Rest APIs
- Clubhouse for scrum
- Rancher
- Elasticsearch
- Kibana
- puppet
- ansible
- react js
Kartoza
Software Engineer
Stellenbosch, Western Cape
October 2017 - November 2018
My daily routine included helping in the desings and taking charge of the
implementations of my assigned tickets/work, overtime I have gained a lot of
knowledge and competenced which among them includes.
Technologies I worked with
- Python
- Django
- Docker
- Rancher labs
- Ansible
- Pycharm pro edition
- Shell scripting
- Postgres
- SQL
- Javascript
- HTML
- CSS
- Bootstrap
- Elasticsearch engine
- AWS
- Celery
- RabbitMQ
- Linux
- Git and GitHub
- CI/CD
- Nginx
cloud architecting of systems, writing good test coverage for every implemented
feature, automating most deployments with shell scripting, managing docker
infrastructures and system stack with rancher labs (a tool for managing
container platforms), as well as scaling these microservices and building
scaling load balancers for the running instances and many more.
Ministry of local development
Software developer
Lusaka, Lusaka Province
November 2014 - February 2017
worked as a community developer for various participations in building software
solutions for the local community, I participated and built the rabbitsms backend for
a community solution that helps identify and publish data of the vulnerable children
to the minitstry of local community development. The project was owned and funded by
the ministry and we had a hackerthon towards implementing it up to deployment as a
team of developers with various experiences.
Technologies I worked with
- Python
- Django
- Celery
- HTML
- CSS
- Linux- Postgres / SQL
schoolnet Zambia January 2013 - December 2013 redhat linux system administrator
During my work time at schoolnetZambia I used to manage the OS and
configuration setup and for the second hand servers that clients baught. I
was taking part in the college (Evelyn hone college) for maintaining and
Hobbies & Interests
Researching on new technologies and sharing new ideas
Learning from other people and sharing experiences and
knowledge. Listening to podcasts about technology, space news
Professional Skills
Linux/Unix Expert
Python programming Advanced
AWS cloud architect Intermediate
Network Architecture Intermediate
Docker Advanced
Java Technologies Intermediate
HTML, CSS Advanced
SQL, Postgres, pgAdminIII,
MySQL, phpMyAdmin, sqlite3,
Oracle databases Advanced
Json, API design Django web Advanced
framework Elasticsearch search Expert
engine Celery, Rabittmq, Advanced
Redis, Nginx git, GitHub, Advanced
GitLab grafana, prometheus Expert
Sentry, CodeCove, Travis Expert
Apache Solr Advanced
Intermediate
Project References
Example links to the projects that I have worked on are listed below:
1. Project – A changelog manager for the QGIS project
- URL: http://changelog.qgis.org/
- GitHub: https://github.com/sonlinux/projecta
2. Biodiversity Information System – Built as a SAAS platform and used in
various client solutions as shown below.
- URL: http://staging.healthyrivers.kartoza.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/sonlinux/django-bims
3. Kartoza monitoring stack – A recipe of monitoring ochestrations for use
in system health and performance checks.
- GitHub: https://github.com/sonlinux/kartoza-monitoring
4. Django trail mapper – A backend app implementation for sharing hiking trails
- GitHub: https://github.com/kartoza/trail-mapper-django
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Backbone.js, Celery, DevOps, Django, Django Channels, Django REST Framework, Docker, Elasticsearch, Flask, Git, GraphQL, JavaScript, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, MySQL, Nginx, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, ReactJS, Redis, SQL, Selenium, Twisted, Virtualenv, Web Development, uWSGI