Kenneth Muthomi Marete
Brierley Hill,Dudley
Summary
10+ years of efficiently building clean, robust code for large scale distributed financial systems with exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills. 3+ years leading and mentoring developers and working collaboratively to meet project milestones.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Lead Developer
DX Compliance Ltd
Worcester, UK/Dublin Ireland
01.2023 - Current
- Lead and manage a team of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to backend, frontend and DevOps teams.
- Identify and resolve technical and operational challenges and provide technical expertise to support the team's success.
- Participate in all code reviews and facilitate technical deep dives and refactor meetings
- Code clean, clear and well-tested code for backend applications supporting risk analysis engine and compliance software
- Prepare products roadmap and handle team performance reviews
- Participate in hiring process and onboard new engineering members
- Engage with clients by setting up meetings, discussing product designs and requirements gathering.
- Establish best practises, quality standards, easy deployment, and align engineering team with business goals
Senior Software Developer
Equity Bank
11.2020 - 12.2022
- Write, modify, integrate and test software code for loan offers and loan limit calculations of Equity Banks's Credit Scoring Engine (Project - Credit scoring & loan service)
- Add new features to Backoffice portal by adding loan facilities functionalities, customer 360 profile check (Project - BackOffice & loan service)
- Identify and communicate technical problems, processes and solutions through scrum ceremonies (Azure DevOps portal)
- Lead a team of 6 developers and ensure solution is in line with the architectural needs
- Participate in code reviews and facilitate deep dives and technical refactor meetings (Azure devOps)
- Technical Environment: Springboot, hibernate, React, Angular, postgres, agile, Azure, python, mongoDB
Software Engineer II
Jumo Kenya
03.2017 - 09.2020
- Develop and maintain USSD loan application platform and Mobile Loan Disbursement Platform (Project - Hermes Pesa & loan service)
- Develop customer facing Partner Portal that involved data aggregation, reporting and presentation to partners (Project - Jumo Portal)
- Develop a platform aggregating data from several systems to present information on customers to the call center operators (Project - EDW reporting portal)
- Setting and configuring alerts and alarms on logging platform for potential system flaws (Project - loan service)
- Document new platforms architecture and prepare presentations
- Technical Environment: kotlin, React, Java 11 Springboot, postgres, agile, AWS, python (Django > 2.0)
Software Engineer and Integrations Specialist
Software Group BG Ltd
09.2015 - 02.2017
- Developed Bank USSD Menu, integrated the Enterprise Service Bus to aggregators for bill payments and Airtime buying (Project - UTNET USSD)
- Integrated mobile loan disbursements and repayments to aggregator (Project - UTNET)
- Developed of T24 screens for a proprietary system called UTNET Akiba Bank Tanzania, Urwego Opportunity Bank Rwanda, Advance Bank Cameroon
- Developed biometric customer authentication and integrated to the UTNET for teller login Akiba Bank Tanzania
- Technical Environment: Delphi, angular, MSSQL 2012, C#, on premises, Azure
Senior Implementation Engineer
Cellulant Ltd
11.2014 - 08.2015
- Upgraded Internet Banking Integrations with third party system, created auto responder to Internet Banking system to acknowledge payments status (Project - CFC Stanbic bank internet Banking)
- Built APIs to facilitate Remote account opening (Project - CFC Stanbic bank account opening)
- Made Mobile Banking Security enhancements (Project - CFC Stanbic bank mobile wallet 3.0)
- Added services to USSD menu of Mobile banking (Project - CFC Stanbic bank)
- Developed an API for Philips Anti Counterfeit Campaign (Project - Philips)
- Developed API for Zuku internet service bills query (Project - KCB Bank Zuku bill Presentment)
- Technical Environment: Java 8, python, php, MySQL, MSSQL 2008, on premises
Software Engineer
Tangazoletu Ltd
04.2014 - 11.2014
- Remodelled bank bridges and upgraded bank system APIs
- Remodelled robots to automate transaction and connection to Mpesa mobile money system
- Automated settlement to bank and deployment plan for the Mobile payments system
- Worked on database management system, Mpesa portal integration and made a multithreaded solution
- Worked on web portal for reports, logs and accessible amounts
- Technical Environment: Java 8, php, MySQL, Oracle 10g, on premises
Software developer
CraneApps Ltd
07.2011 - 03.2014
software developer
01.2011 - 06.2011
Software Developer
Masterclass Solutions
12.2009 - 12.2010
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Makerere University
2009
Skills
- Programming languages - Java 8, 11, 17 (spring boot, JPA, hibernate, maven, gradle), Python 3 (Django), javasricpt (React, Angular), Rust
- Databases - MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL 2008 - 2012, postgres, sqlite, MongoDB
- DevOps - AWS (lambda, EKS, ECS, EB, EC2), Azure, docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform
- Monitoring & Tools - Sentry, New Relic, OpsGenie, and Sumo Logic
- Agile - Scrum
- Automated testing
- API integrating
- Backend software development
Additional Information
- Interests - blockchain, Rust development, containerization, machine learning
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
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Quote
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Timeline
Technical Lead Developer
DX Compliance Ltd
01.2023 - Current
Senior Software Developer
Equity Bank
11.2020 - 12.2022
Software Engineer II
Jumo Kenya
03.2017 - 09.2020
Software Engineer and Integrations Specialist
Software Group BG Ltd
09.2015 - 02.2017
Senior Implementation Engineer
Cellulant Ltd
11.2014 - 08.2015
Software Engineer
Tangazoletu Ltd
04.2014 - 11.2014
Software developer
CraneApps Ltd
07.2011 - 03.2014
software developer
01.2011 - 06.2011
Software Developer
Masterclass Solutions
12.2009 - 12.2010
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Makerere University
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