I am looking to expand my knowledge base and skill set in Full-Stack software development.
Education
Software Development Moringa School Febuary 2018-June 2018
BA Communications (Print Media) Daystar University 2014- December 2018
Past Experience
Communications & Design Intern Local Developement Research Institute October 2017-May 2018
Editor Attache Kenya Literature Bureau August 2017-October 2017
PROJECTS
DownTime Web Application
DownTime Web Application is an application that allows users to schedule messages to themselves and people in the contact list making there lives easier.
Built with :
Twilio API
Python(Flask Framework)
HTML5, CSS3,
JavaScript
Commune is a mock application for registered residents to get details on there neighbourhood. They can get contact information of there neighbours and search for businesses in their neighbourhood.
Built with :
Python(Django Framework)
HTML5, CSS3,
JavaScript/ JQuery
Book Club is an ongoin project for my book club where users can get book suggestions and also get random generated questions for their book club discussions.
Built with :
Google Books API
Python(Flask Framework)
HTML5, CSS3,
JavaScript/ Jquery
Publisher: Pambazuka News
We always empathize with the poor. However, it is a paradoxical type of empathy; the sort that places us above them. We think to ourselves: the woman at the bus stage should know better than to have five kids with another clearly on the way. The man drunkenly passed out on the sidewalk should use that money to fix himself up. And those children that bombard us with requests that start out pitifully and end up violent have no excuse. After all, don’t we have free primary education? We may never say it out loud but somewhere along such lines of thought we unanimously decided that the poor cannot be trusted[...]
The African Data Revolution
Publisher: Local Development Research Institute
With 90% of the data in the world today having been created in the last 2 years this, it appears, is the era of data revolution. According to IBM, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are collected every day. The presence of this data is important for necessary development to effectively take place in any country. The Royal Statistical Society in the United Kingdom in its Data Manifesto puts it like this, “what steam was to the nineteenth century and oil to the twentieth data are to the twenty-first.” However, despite this surge in data production, the data revolution is not evenly spread out in the world with the global south getting the short end of the stick[...]
Rural Women Key Players in the Achievement of SDGs
Publisher: Local Development Research Institute
On October 15th, we celebrate the International Day of Rural Women. The role of women as key players in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is with time becoming more evident. So much so that World Food Day is also celebrated on 16th October followed closely by International Day for Eradication of Poverty on 17th October showing just how these three issues are interconnected[...]