Kelvin Beno

Front-end Software Developer with 3 years of experience. Highly skilled in ReactJS and all things UI-related. Enjoy translating UI designs to fully functioning applications that the end user can interact with and be appreciative of. 

Freelance Developer
09/2021 – PRESENT
Webapp Applications (e.g RoseFarm WebApp)
Key Deliverables
Building responsive and modern sites with best practice techniques such as JavaScript animation and
frameworks. Working concurrently on several projects.
● Designed, developed and built a progressive web application using React and Nodejs to advertise
available farm produce for client(farmer)
● Integrated CommerceJs to handle product creation and book keeping for the transactions made
● Integrated Daraja API to handle online mobile payments through Mpesa provided by safaricom using
NodeJS
● Liasoned with client on updates and modifications required to make application as seamless as possible
● Built beautiful UI using HTML 5, CSS, Javascript, React and Components from Material UI
● Deployed the static webapp application built with React and the Api section built with NodeJS to
Render Hosting Service for testing
● Managing updates and responding to bugs that come up within the application for the client
● Ensure Responsiveness of the application on desktop devices as well as mobile handheld and Tablet
devices.
● Added Service Workers to allow for native installation on different devices

Webapp Applications (e.g. Victor’s Wedding WebApp)
Key Deliverables
Building responsive and modern sites with best practice techniques such as JavaScript animation and
frameworks. Working concurrently on several projects.
● Developed, designed, and implemented a WebApp using React and Firebase to showcase the bride and
groom's expectations.
● Deploying automated processes for built frameworks, eliminating manual overhead, and reducing
overall process time for integration testing by 50%.
● Executing the development process of the UI components and features of the sites, improving
application responsiveness by nearly 100%.
● Analyzing existing HTML & CSS code to determine functionality and quality.
● Continuously analyzing and debugging production issues while performing system updates.
● Deploying test environments and performing preliminary testing on the Software to identify defects
and reduce maintenance overhead.
● Developing server monitoring tools to automatically track hard drive usage and send alerts in the event
of low storage space.
● Effective liaison with clients to gather business and functional specifications and translate them into
website projects.
● Continuously researching and adapting to new Web Development languages and frameworks.
● Pro-active collaboration with users within the business community and IT project team members to
develop applications.
● Revising and updating documentation of the Software prototypes and components, therefore,
streamlining workflow by 90%.
● Managing servers and hosting for clients.

Software Developer
07 /2020 – 07/2021
The Silver Logic – Florida, United States
Key Deliverables
● Polished and perfected the UI of a sprint planning software using React.
● Implemented UI features for software that allows users to get body modifications such as laser hair
removal, using React framework.
● Developed and designed UI display for Ally, Carecredit, and Greensky lender companies using Apex
Charts library.
● Analyzed and debugged production issues that would arise.
● Incorporated Chatlio slack live chat into applications to smoothen communication between users and
support staff by 80%.
● Deployed a feature that allowed the product owner to create stories based on cost and requirements
using Django for the API.
● Assisted in tracking current project developments and estimating the expected project completion
time.
● Actively participated in weekly product discussion meetings.
● Created test documents and unit-tested applications for defects to improve functionality.
● Carried out hardware & virtual machine maintenance tasks on local and remote servers.
● Upgraded the aging code base with new source code to provide software accountability with current
hardware architecture.

Software Developer
04/2019 – 02/2020
Orteo Payments Systems Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
Key Deliverables
Actively led in the roll-out and implementation of various Software which refactored application and database
business logic.
● Successfully set up Elastic Search and Stackdriver Software which aided Application Performance
monitoring, decreasing system admin daily workload by 50%.
● Built a Turn Around Time Service that increased the company’s transaction rate by 80%.
● Set up Redis database to reduce REST API latency by implementing caching, therefore improving
application responsiveness by nearly 100%.
● Actively participated in the development process of the UI components and features of the company’s
Software.
● Developed and implemented an Application Monitoring policy which improved the effectiveness and
reduced the complexity of monitoring the systems.
● Implemented fixes and conducted handover sessions to provide system setting, source code review,
and configuration.
● Created synthetic test data, validated test results, and executed test scripts for the company's
applications.
● Provided system maintenance and support procedures for log file updates, database tables, and stored
procedures.
● Responsible for analyzing and debugging production issues in the software systems.
● Effective liaison with key partners and stakeholders in resolving pending disbursements and improving
satisfaction rates for clients.
● Served as a key point of contact between the development team and clients for gathering business and
functional specifications and communicating project status reports and updates.

● Degree in Business Information Technology, St Paul’s University, 2016 – 2021.
● Information Technology Diploma, St Paul’s University, 2015 – 2016.