experience.sh - Professional Journey
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Information Technology Student & Innovation Club Member

Karatina University

2023-08 - Present

Completed

Key Achievements

  • Pursuing Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with focus on cybersecurity
  • Active member of university innovation club contributing technical knowledge and skills
  • Organizing CTF competitions for IT and computer science students
  • Assisting in creation and management of innovation club website
  • Participating in cybersecurity workshops and ethical hacking training sessions
  • Contributing to university-wide hackathons and coding competitions

Cybersecurity Intern

Serianu Limited

2024-06 - 2024-08

Completed

Key Achievements

  • Gained hands-on experience in vulnerability assessments at leading Kenyan cybersecurity firm
  • Assisted in penetration testing activities for various client organizations
  • Participated in security awareness training program development
  • Contributed to incident response procedures and documentation
  • Supported SOC operations and threat monitoring activities
  • Learned enterprise security tools and frameworks from industry experts

Junior Software Developer (Part-time)

KCB Bank Group

2023-11 - 2024-05

Completed

Key Achievements

  • Developed secure web applications with focus on banking security standards
  • Implemented security controls and secure coding practices
  • Assisted in code reviews and security testing procedures
  • Worked on mobile banking application security enhancements
  • Collaborated with senior developers on security architecture decisions

Staff Engineer

loveholidays

November 2024 - Present

Completed

Tech Arsenal

l Terraform
l Kubernetes
l Preact
l Fastly
l Go

Principle Engineer

AND.Digital

August 2022 - Present

Completed

Mission Overview

As a member of the Practice Group within Hamilton Club, I work across several client projects, ensuring that code quality, maintainability and security are top notch. I'm responsible for training up our developers, helping them gain the skills necessary to best support our clients. I'm always up for trying out new tech, so that I'm in a good position to choose the best tech stacks on a per-client basis.

Tech Arsenal

l TypeScript
l React Native
l Azure

Clients

International SOS International SOS
Frasers Group Frasers Group
Lloyds Bank Lloyds Bank

VP Frontend Engineer

Galaxy

Jan 2021 - July 2022

Completed

Mission Overview

Worked on real-time React-based Web3 trading application

Tech Arsenal

l React
l Storybook
l Cypress
l Web3.js

Full-Stack Developer

Freelance

February 2019 - Jan 2021

Completed

Tech Arsenal

l React
l React Native
l TypeScript
l GraphQL
l GCP

Projects

Futr.AI Futr.AI
Shell Shell
Shell Recharge Shell Recharge
Machine Max Machine Max
Ctemplar Ctemplar

Software Developer

Accenture

June 2014 - February 2019

Completed

Mission Overview

After joining as an associate, I had the opportunity to work on a range of exciting client projects, each with their own challenges, his helped me to develop my skills and knowledge in a variety of areas. Over time I worked my way up to a senior role, where I could actively deliver high quality solutions to clients.

Tech Arsenal

l C#
l Angular
l Node.js
l AWS

Clients

E.ON E.ON
B&Q B&Q
Boots Boots
TK Maxx TK Maxx
Vodafone Vodafone
UKI Innovation Center UKI Innovation Center

Intern

University of Oxford

June 2013 - September 2013

Completed

Mission Overview

Worked on developing a Java application which would calculate the most effective mg of antimalarial drug, per kg or patient body weight, to prevent vaccine resistance building up. Involved dealing with millions of patient records, which were often in varying formats and units.

Tech Arsenal

l Java
l Apache Tomcat
l JUnit
l Gradle

Projects

WWARN WWARN

Soldier

British Army

Completed

Regiments

Signals Signals
Oxford UOTC Oxford UOTC
Intelligence Corps Intelligence Corps