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Karanja Stanley

@karanjastanley

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I am a senior software engineer with 15+ years experience in technical and leadership roles

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

1.New challenges and responsibilities

2.Life-work balance culture

3.Personal and Career growth

I believe that there is always a simple solution to a very complex problem, with years of experience developing solutions a key solution dairy industry was to design and implement a data driven quality-based pricing. This solution was developed and deployed in several countries in Africa. Secondly, we needed banks to reachout to unbanked clients, we came up with alternative data driven credit scoring engine which we shared as SaaS to financial institutions in several countries in Africa. These and more shows my capability to collaborate, manage, lead , adapt and be a team player in diverse cultures as well as tech capability

Experience

Current

Director of Software Engineering

Current

Beta Fresh Ltd

Oct 2020 - Present (3 years 7 months)

• Hands on participation in SLDC as a lead software engineer and architecture
• Talent’s recruitment for data science and software Engineering roles
• Leadership and management roles to various teams and team heads
• Mentorship to individuals across the departments
• Products innovation and ownership
• Client engagement and conversion
• Ticket tracking.

Engineering Manager Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Compulynx Ltd

May 2010 - Dec 2012 (2 years 7 months)

• Retail and Biometric Security Solutions: -I. Lead in development of the most popular retail solution for East Africa (Core-Smart) that led to onboarding more customers in new regions i.e., East Africa, West Africa and Middle East. • Stabilized and optimized the existing retail solutions in the company and a such was able to reduce end of day process from 6hrs to just 6 minutes through refactorin

Software Engineering

Head of the Department

Eclectics International Ltd

Feb 2013 - Sep 2020 (7 years 7 months)

• Lead in creation and implementation of Dynamic Data Driven Scoring Engine; designed, developed and deployed an alternative data driven lending platform in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda that enabled financial institutions to lend to their clients using an alternative dynamic data credit scoring-engine. • Headed data crunch for cooperative bank’s mobile-wallet resulting to development of new services a

Marketing Strategy Software Engineering Engineering Manager Engineering Leadership Engineering Management Technical Leadership

Information management System officer

Frigoken

Jan 2007 - Apr 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Learned commercial software engineering • Developed a blue print document and design for an ERP in the leading horticulture exporter in Kenya • Designed, developed, implemented and supported the companies the ERP

Software Engineering

Software Engineer

Fintech-Group

May 2008 - Apr 2010 (1 year 11 months)

• Developed and implemented the 1st SMS banking platform in Ethiopia as a country in United (Hibret) bank • Supported development of new payment platform development in Malawi for MalSwitch • Connected several banks to ATMS and cheque clearing systems (Ecobank, ABC bank and Family Bank) • Supported and developed solutions for e-Banking supporting the ISO 8583 financial message brokers, switch skil

Software Engineering