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Software Developer || Technical Writer || Consultant

I am a dedicated and innovative Software Developer, with over 2 years of professional experience, coupled with expertise within the technology domain. As a Software Developer, I love applying modern-day Software Engineering principles in designing, developing, and maintaining software, both on the web and mobile.

  • Occupation: Fullstack Developer
  • Experience: 2+ Years
  • Phone: +254115197294
  • City: Nairobi, Kenya
  • Degree: Bachelor
  • Email: votesdw@hotmail.com
  • Plus InterestsBlogging, Data Analytics
  • Freelance: Available

As an avid learner, I am always seeking platforms for improvement. And in doing so, I have managed to grow personally, and apply the gained skills in developing innovative solutions core in offering solutions that meet business and social problems. Equipped, I am skilled in offering core services, using modern tech tools

Happy Clients

Projects

Hour Support

Years of Experience

Skills

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Android Development
Jetpack Compose
Express.js
jQuery
Mongo DB
MySQL
Kotlin
Git
Java
Material Design 2 & 3
Agile Methodologies

Interests & Hobbies

Front-End Web Development

Back-End Web Development

Android App Development

Learning to Expand Skills

Mentoring Others

Teaching Others

Learning BlockChain/Web3.0

Blogging/Technical Writing

Reading Non-Fiction Books

Creating Innovative Stuff

Networking for Connections

Data Analysis with Python

Testimonials

I was referred by a friend when I needed a personal portfolio created. After an online meeting, within days, I had my site fully running, a selling point to recruiters by showing my work history

Janice Mueni

PhD. Student

I previously was too much focused on typed and printed resumes. Now I have my website with all my skills & accomplishments speaking for me in this modern tech world. I am so happy

Tialal Anthony

Professional Banker

Making business decisions is something we do always. After seeking support on data analysis, I have been able to have better business outcomes with short and long-term positive implications

Ruth Harrison

Business Owner

We have now realized a 10x rise in revenue, after our brand website was created and made available online. We have fully become visible, and our brand awareness has trully increased than in previous years

Benson Kimani

Business Owner

I was once a disbeliever in creating my brands content and making it available online. Wakoli has massively contributed in writing unique articles showcasing our brand strengths. We are winning

Wellignton Bramwel

C.E.0., Real Estate Agency

Resume

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Summary

Wakoli Votes

Dedicated Software Developer, knowledgeable on system design fundamentals and programming. The skill-set domain includes Android development, Web-development, with other core professionalism skills entailing effective self-management, first decision-making, creative thinking, and team player

Core Skills/Milestones

  • Software development life cycle (S.D.L.C)
  • Agile techniques
  • Version control
  • JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, C, C++
  • MySQL, MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js
  • HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, jQuery

Education

BSc. Software Development

2022

Kenya College of Accountancy (KCA - University), Nairobi-KE

Focused on growing and learning towards becoming an expert Software Developer. The learning has supplemented existing skills towards gained required knowldge from different course units, self-teachings, ongoing practice and collaborating with other developers

ALX-T Data Analyst Nanodegree

May - Sept 2022

UDACITY

The training involves equipping one with the core skills in Data Analysis with Python. The course presents an introduction to data analysis concepts, defines the useful role played by Data Analysts in businesses, and provides the distinct tools vital in performing daily analytics functions. The gained skills include;

  • Python and Data analysis fundamentals
  • Data gathering and mining
  • Data wrangling, analysis & data presentation
  • Career coaching, job preparation and start-up ideation

M.E.R.N. Stack Software Engineering Trainee

Nov 2021 - July 2022

Adanian Labs & Family Bank Scholarship

The online course, with weekly professional trainers covered core software engineering concepts, of which at the end, the core gained skills are:

  • M.E.R.N Stack, i.e., MongoDB, Express.js, React.js & Node.js
  • Software Engineering Principles, e.g, OOP, Agile Methods
  • Software Testing and Deployment Tools, e.g., Postman, Thunder Client, GitHub Pages, Heroku, e.t.c
  • HTTP Methods, i.e., GET, PUT, DELETE, POST
  • REST API, i.e., CRUD Methods (Create, Read, Update, Delete)

Technical Support Fundamentals: Google + Coursera

2021 - 2022

Coursera

The course covered a series of topics in preparing one as an entry-level IT Support Specialists, with gained IT skills entailing;

  • Computer hardware & software
  • The internet
  • Troubleshooting tools & techniques
  • Customer service

Professional Experience

Web Design and Maintenance - MalivikaTVNews

2023 - Present

Web Developer, Goma - DRC

  • Designing portfolio sites with HTML, CSS, React.js
  • Twitching & customizing old sites to modern/appealing look
  • Adding front-end tools to websites for better performance
  • Planning, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining created web applications
  • Evaluating client websites for mobile performance and optimal responsiveness across multiple devices

Web Design and Maintenance - Freelance

2021 - Present

Freelancer, Nairobi - KE

  • Designing portfolio sites with HTML, CSS, React.js
  • Twitching & customizing old sites to modern/appealing look
  • Adding front-end tools to websites for better performance
  • Planning, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining created web applications
  • Evaluating client websites for mobile performance and optimal responsiveness across multiple devices

IT Technical Support Professional - Freelance

2022 April - Present

Freelance, Nairobi - KE

  • Managing diagnosis of PCs/Laptops in my skill domain
  • PC/Laptop screen replacement, software installation & repair
  • Providing quality assessments of Computer Hardware before diagnosing specific issues and assigning repair
  • Utilizing advanced troubleshooting and diagnostic skills in maintaining and repairing devices
  • Assisting special needs clients in operating devices
  • Providing outstanding technical support to clients

Technical Writer

2020 - Present

Medium Platform - Global

  • Writing on software engineering topics on Medium
  • Formulating texts based on Medium editorial guidelines
  • Quality writing on Python, JavaScript & Android Development
  • Ensuring texts are adequately researched with originality

Field Research Assistant

2017 March - 2018 December

Statistics Information & Research International (S.I.R.I), Nairobi-KE

  • Teamed up in interviewing participants and record responses
  • Worked in teams in handling participant's field questions
  • Attending post-project meetings & compiling final reports
  • Assisted in preparing and producing field project reports
  • Assisted in data analysis using Ms-Excel & IBM-SPSS

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Services

My Services

Front-end Web Design & Development

Designing & building aestically appealing and usable websites for clients using creative & innovative design tools for appealing layouts, easier to use and with amazing visuals

Back-end Web Development

Using core expertise, there is working on server-side softwares vital in ensuring correct website performance, in terms of focusing databases, back-end logic, application programming interface (APIs), architecture,& servers.

Android Mobile Apps Development

Skills in developing Mobile applications for the Android operating system (OS) using innovative tools that aligns with the client's needs and are customized to their brand and business

Technical Writing

With Technical writing & content creation expertise, there is offering help in producing high-quality, customized and audience-appropriate materials on the core subject aligned with client's needs

Data Analytics

Undertaking problem definition, data collection, organization and utilizing statistical tools, i.e., Python, Jupyter Notebook, Ms-Excel & IBM-SPSS in evaluating and interpreting data for decision-making

IT Support Technician

Using IT skills in providing quality assessments of Computer Hardware, diagnosing issues, troubleshooting and repairing devices. Also, offering outstanding technical support to clients globally

Portfolio

My Works

  • All
  • Mobile + GitHub
  • Publication
  • Web App

Exam Bank Android App

App

EasiDial-Care-GDSC-Solution-Challenge-2023 Android Health Access App

App

MalivikaTvNews

Web

Taraund Consulting Group Landing Page

Web

FoundersKE

Web

StalkingSkies Cities Weather Web App

App

Fashion Model Client Portfolio

App

Water Glasses Drank Tracker Web App

App

Facebook Network Analysis

App

Python 101: Python Ultimate Guide

Publication

MERN Stack Automobile System

Web

Python for everyone: Mastering Python The Right Way — Virtual Environments

Publication

Android 101: Introduction to Android Development

Publication

5 Reasons To Start Blogging, Especially as a Student

Publication

Scelland Labs Landing Page

Web

List 100

Things I want to do before 31st December, 2025. Feel free to share and give me some amazing ideas and recommendations on what to add.
  1. ✗ Learn French
  2. ✗ Live in another country
  3. ✗ Start a nonprofit organization
  4. ✗ See my book being sold at an airport outside Kenya
  5. ✗ Be in a movie/commercial/television program
  6. ✗ Become an author of a paper at a top-tier conference
  7. ✗ Get published in Forbes Magazine
  8. ✗ Get published on the New Yorker
  9. ✗ Read 100 books in 2024
  10. ✗ Teach a graduate-level course
  11. ✓ Start a company
  12. ✗ Author a patent
  13. ✗ Write for a TV show
  14. ✗ Write 200 1000 likes/shares articles on Medium and Substack
  15. ✗ Build my own home
  16. ✗ Visit Microsoft Center - Kenya
  17. ✗ Visit Google Offices - Kenya
  18. ✗ Visit Microsoft Offices - Redmond, Washington
  19. ✗ Visit Google Offices - Mountain View, California
  20. ✗ Become a parent
  21. ✗ Be a speaker at an annual global conference
  22. ✗ Vist the United States of America (USA)
  23. ✗ Vist the United Kingdom
  24. ✗ Vist the South Africa
  25. ✗ Vist DRC
  26. ✗ Vist Rwanda
  27. ✗ Go on a trip overseas with my whole family
  28. ✗ Take a hot-air balloon ride
  29. ✓ Get a Passport
  30. ✗ Swim a mile
  31. ✗ Run a half marathon
  32. ✗ Scuba dive
  33. ✗ Teach my daughter software engineering
  34. ✗ Surf in Hawaii
  35. ✗ Fly an airplane
  36. ✗ Learn to drive a car
  37. ✗ Get a PhD in Computer Science
  38. ✗ Body transformation
  39. ✗ Dance on stage at a concert
  40. ✗ Ride a horse
  41. ✗ Publish a Book on Software Engineering
  42. ✗ Create my own package for mobile
  43. ✗ Start a scholarship to support 100 brilliant young kids
  44. ✗ Volunteer 1000 hours to help to the elderlies
  45. ✗ Get my firt car
  46. ✗ Start an entrepreneurship incubation center
  47. ✗ Take a walk in the rain
  48. ✗ Eat at a 5***** Restaurant
  49. ✗ Sleep in a castle
  50. ✗ Publish 20 high value apps on Google Play
  51. ✗ Publish 20 high value apps on AppStore
  52. ✗ Go on an African safari
  53. ✗ Camp in a desert
  54. ✗ See auroras
  55. ✗ Learn to salsa
  56. ✗ Learn to play a guitar
  57. ✗ Visit the Maasai Mara
  58. ✗ Visit the Nairobi National Park
  59. ✗ Visit Mt. Longonot
  60. ✗ Visit the Amboseli National Park
  61. ✗ Work in a corporate
  62. ✗ Do stand-up
  63. ✗ Travel Europe
  64. ✗ Visit all East Africa States - [1] Burundi, [2] Rwanda, [3] South Sudan, [4] Tanzania, [5] Uganda
  65. ✗ Spend a month in West Africa
  66. ✗ Hike Los Andes
  67. ✗ Visit the Nile River and Aswan High Dam
  68. ✗ Sail around the Caribbean
  69. ✗ Drink vodka in Russia
  70. ✗ Eat sushi in Japan
  71. ✗ Travel around Eastern Europe
  72. ✗ See Kashmir
  73. ✗ Visit Mecca
  74. ✗ Do Bible tour: Jerusalem, Lake of Galilee, Jordan River, Bethlehem, Nazareth
  75. ✗ Stay with an Amazonian tribe
  76. ✗ Visit an Amish community
  77. ✗ Visit Vatican
  78. ✗ Visit Tehran
  79. ✗ Visit Sicily
  80. ✗ Visit 100 countries
  81. ✗ Climb Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
  82. ✗ Climb Great wall, China
  83. ✗ Go and see The Everest
  84. ✗ Reed Dance, Swaziland
  85. ✗ Guest at Tesla Gigafactory in Germany
  86. ✗ Attend and watch the World Cup
  87. ✗ Watch a Broadway show in New York
  88. ✗ Pashut Festival, Israel
  89. ✗ See the New Year from Tokyo
  90. ✗ Watch bullfight in Spain
  91. ✗ Watch a Manchester United Game at Old Trafford
  92. ✗ Visit Googleplex
  93. ✗ Speak at TED
  94. ✗ Meet the Pope
  95. ✗ Touch the Amazon River in Brazil with my feet
  96. ✗ Meet JK Rowling
  97. ✗ See a comet
  98. ✗ Buy land {43,560 sqr. ft}
  99. ✗ Have my own’s ice cream flavor
  100. ~ Be awesome
  101. ~ Be kind

Awards & Certitications

Received Awards, Recognitions & Certificates

ALX-T Data Analyst Nanodegree - UDACITY

Certificate

Technical Support Fundamentals - Coursera + Google

Certificate

Introduction to Data Science - AfDB + Microsoft

Certificate

JavaScript Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners - AfDB + Microsoft

Certificate

Mastering Python Bootcamp - Lux Tech Academy

Bootcamp Certificate

Web 3.0 Fundamentals: Polygon & Harmony Network - iHub Nairobi

Web3 Short Course

Contact

Contact Me

My Address

50365 -00200, 1st Avenue - Garden Estate, NRB

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Email Me

votesdw@hotmail.com

Call Me

+254115197294

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