Karanja Stanley, Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

About

Full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience in all stages of software life cycle development (SLDC) in Fintech, Agri-tech, retail and manufacturing with 7+ years in leadership and management roles for technical and non-technical teams leading hands-on with a relentless pursuit of quality market oriented and innovative solutions leaving a trail of capable teams and profitable clients.

Experience

Beta fresh

Oct 2020 – Present

Nairobi, Kenya

Director of Software Engineer

• 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.

Eclectics International ltd

Feb 2013 – Sep 2020

Nairobi, Kenya

Head of Department

• 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 and new revenues at +2% in 2016 • Lead in development of a leading Dairy solution in Kenya and Tanzania’s largest dairy companies. The solution raised the daily yield of by 500% in Tanzania in less than 6 months in 2016. • Upskilled leadership by managing 30+ engineers and 10 data scientists as well as many customers in various projects • Developed and implemented a cloud-based farmer’s database in Rwanda that profiled 350,000 farmers in 30days. • Got licensed as prince2 project manager practitioner • Spearheaded introduction of cloud-based computing in the company by adopting Azure. • Mentored engineers who have scaled heights to work for FAAMG

Compulynx Ltd

May 2010 – Dec 2012

Nairobi, Kenya

Senior Software Engineer

• 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 refactoring the solution and introducing distributed system as well as optimizing the database queries • user and product requirements gathering and documentation, system design and analysis, Database designs and optimization, system development, user testing, deployment, support and maintenance, user training and support, team lead and coaching

Fintech Group

May 2008 – Apr 2010

Nairobi, Kenya

Software Engineer

• 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 skills and Universal Serial Bus • Developed web-based platforms for fintech such as Internet banking solutions, STPs etc.

Frigoken ltd

Jan 2007 – May 2008

Nairobi, Kenya

Information Management System officer

• 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

Education

University of Nairobi

Sep 2009 – Present

Masters of Science , Biometry

Maseno University

Jan 2001 – Aug 2006

Bachelor of Science, Statistics, Mathematics and IT

Karanja Stanley

Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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