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Kenneth Onah

@kennethonah

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Backend Engineer with focus on the big picture.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

To work in a cross-functional team that is dynamic and challenging and where I can put my skill set to good use.

Ultimately, I am excited about solving business problems.

I look forward to working with teams of varying sizes, experienced, open, fun, integrated, well-organized, and passionate about their work.

Teams that are allowed to experiment and pioneer new ideas are also important to me.

Seasoned, forward-looking Software Engineer with 8+ years of background in creating and executing innovative business solutions to solve complex business needs. Highly experienced in software development lifecycle including agile methodologies, from concept through to development and delivery.

Recognized as a hands-on and competent leader, skilled at working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment to steer timely project completion.

Experience

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Senior Backend Developer

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Cartrack

Aug 2021 - Present (3 years 2 months)

=> Tech lead of two core systems responsible for Quality assurance of tracker installation and stolen asset recovery
=> Responsible for migrating monolith APIs to microservices deployed to the private cloud utilizing a modern tech stack (C#, PHP8, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, RabbitMQ, Redis, Grafana, Kibana, PostgreSQL) to enhance security, scalability, and reliability.

Java Kotlin C#Microservices Gitlab Python APIs Android SQL Databases

Full Stack Developer

Netcraft DevOps (Pty) Ltd

Dec 2013 - Dec 2017 (4 years)

Key highlight of job at the agency:
=> Designed, and implemented a dozen payment plugins and SDK for PayU Financial Services. Over R3 million in payment transactions was processed by Merchants in the first year of Shopify plugin release.
=> Oversee all phases of the development of Supplizor (Pty) Ltd PHP e-commerce application system, from design, development and deployment

Docker PHP Java Android Ruby on Rails Ruby CSS3 HTML5 DigitalOcean Python SQL JavaScript MySQL Heroku

Backend Developer

Vaimo e-Commerce Services

Feb 2018 - Jul 2021 (3 years 5 months)

I joined this e-commerce agency to help them design, build and maintain clients' e-commerce applications which includes web applications, SOAP APIs, third party integrations.
I demonstrated expertise in translating the client's specific needs into easy-to-understand and implementable software solutions leading to 5% - 7% growth in revenue for one of their biggest client.