Paullaster Okoth

I have been working as a Junior Developer at Sama Kenya for 2 years and now seek a new challenge. My experience and skills in JavaScript, ReactJs, HTML, CSS, SASS, JQuery, NodeJs, PostgreSql, MongoDB, SQL, APIs development, CI/CD makes me a perfect fit for this role. I have worked in large development teams that have sharpened my technical skills, improved my communication skills and made me understand what it takes to meet tight deadlines.

Sama Kenya - Junior Developer October 2020 - Present

• Collaborated in building a learning management system dashboard with reusable reactjs components that helped over 2000 employees to self manage and monitor their self paced learning progress on the company learning management system.
• Contributed to the redesigning of the company website
• Contributed to redesigning of the company work platform alias samaHub that enabled to increase the efficiency of over 2000 employees to accomplish their day to day assigned tasks.

Huawei Kenya -  Software Engineering Management Trainee  

July 2022  - Sept 2022 

• Wrote a monitoring script to monitor errors on Huawei’s Charging Billing Adapter  for the Convergent Billing System that helped automate errors identification on the adapter and increased the chances of error identification by 63%.
• Learned how to use Huawei Web service to create new subscribers and adding new products to subscribers that  automated creation of multiple users and multiple products.
• Learned advanced SQL  that leverage on querying user records and querying Call Detail records for mediation.

Multimedia University of Kenya - Assistant Support Specialist 

May 2018 - August 2019

• Learned how to use network monitoring tools and Linux monitoring tools that leverage on monitoring student and help in reducing response time and latency of student server by 75%
• Together with the support team implemented IT support Ticketing system that enabled quick response time and efficiency when responding to staff technical challenges depending on their priority.
• Learned network troubleshooting skills that enabled me to solve 97% of staff's network problems.
• Learned hardware troubleshooting skills enabled me to repair and troubleshoot 80% of the University hardware devices that ran into errors.

WRITING EXPERIENCE

Medium - Web Development Technical Writer

I write technical content on web technologies including; 

JavaScript, NodeJs, React, MongoDB, REST API, Tutorials, ExpressJs, Mongoose, JWT, Git

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Computing and Information Technology Club (CIT CLUB MMU) -

 Chairperson  September 2020 - November 2021

• I led the club in organizing over 10 hackathons in different technology tracks that helped the tech community members to practice their skills and showcase their talents to the cooperates and this provided over 10 employment opportunities to the participants.
• I led the club in establishing different technology  tracks that enables members to choose their area of interest and the the industry desired skills, this enhanced the club efficiency and relevance by a huge percentage.
• I led the club in designing and developing the club’s official web application that has since given the club online presense and eneable the interested cooperates to contact the club officials with ease. 

Google Developer Student Club -  Core Team Web Development Lead

September 2020 - November 2021

• Mentored peers during tech meet-ups and live coding sessions
• Led the club to in participating in open source projects
• Organized learning sessions and tech hackathons

Multimedia University of Kenya 2017 - 2021

Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

Google Andela Developer Scholarship 2021 - 2021

Mobile Web Development

eMobilis Mobile Technology Training Center 2021 - 2021

Mobile Development with Java

Huawei Academy 2019 - 2019 & 2021 -2021

HCIA Routing & Switching

HCIA Artificial Intelligence