Collins Kipchumba

Experience

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  Camusat

  Aug 2018 - Nov 2018

  Field Technician, Maintenance Department

  Carried out various activities which include:• Cable plant installations for both Coaxial and fiber including stranding, lashing and grounding• Splicing of coaxial cables and Installation of HFC(Hybrid Coaxial Cable )Devices• Performed End of Line tests and return path tests for the devices installed• Troubleshooting on the network to discover problem and make corrections• Installation of various Fiber Access Terminal(FAT)• Fiber splicing on various enclosures i.e. 36, 72, 144, 288. Show less

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  Camusat

  Jul 2019 - Oct 2019

  Dispatch Agent

  Carried out various activities which include:• Planning network installations and maintenance by studying customer orders, plans, manuals, and technical specifications.• Scheduling and dispatching field technicians to appropriate locations.• Relaying work orders, messages, and information.• Conferring with customers in order to address questions, concerns, and requests for service or equipment.• Monitoring personnel and/or equipment locations and utilization in order to coordinate service and schedules.• Delivered clerical support by handling range of routine and special requirements Show less

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  Adrian Kenya

  Mar 2021 - Oct 2021

  Field Technician, Cell Tower Maintenance
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  Index

  Aug 2021 - Mar 2022

  Smart Contract Developer

  Worked on building an Ethereum decentralized swapping and liquidity provision platform.

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  Safaricom PLC

  Mar 2022 - now

  Device Financing Roles:• Developed microservices for device Financing squad to enable Customers get smart phones on loan on a daily repayment Schedule• Integrating Jenkins Pipelines to microservices• Deployment of microservices on UAT and production environments both on premise(Openshift) and on cloud (AWS)• Developed backend services using the Spring Boot framework to support the functionality and integration of applications.• Designed and implemented RESTful and gRPC APIs for seamless communication between various system components.• Collaborated with frontend developers to define API contracts and ensure smooth integration between front-end and back-end systems.• Implemented data persistence and retrieval using databases such as Postgre's and MongoDB.• Integrated third-party services and APIs, including payment gateways mainly termloan AND mpesa and external data providers to enable loan management.• Implemented caching mechanisms and optimized database queries to improve application performance.• Conducted thorough testing and debugging of backend components to ensure functionality and reliability. Show less • Collaborated with teams and squads to establish standardized Jenkins pipelines, ensuring efficient and consistent software delivery processes.• Provided support to teams and squads for deployments using Flux v2, promoting streamlined and automated deployment practices.• Orchestrated container deployments on EKS and Openshift, enabling scalable and resilient application architectures.• Leveraged AWS and Terraform to develop reusable IoT modules, including VPC, IoT core, IoT analytics, and Quicksight, facilitating the implementation of IoT solutions.• Implemented Grafana and Prometheus for observability and monitoring, empowering teams to proactively identify and address performance and availability issues.• Strengthened the security of existing Jenkins pipelines by integrating Sonarqube and Veracode scans, ensuring the delivery of secure and high-quality software.• Collaborated closely with software development and testing teams to design and develop robust solutions that met client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.• Conducted thorough reviews of project specifications and designed technology solutions that consistently exceeded performance expectations. Show less

  • Backend and Integration Engineer

    Mar 2023 - now

  • Platform Engineer

    Mar 2022 - Apr 2023