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Kevin Naughton

NextByte ICT Solutions Company Limited

Client Enterprise Web Applications

1. Collecting requirements, analysing, modelling and designing relational databases which serve 10,000,000+ tuples of data.
2. Developing Code generator tools for easy generation of source codes
3. Developing configurable report tools for fast creation and generation of ad-hoc reports and aiding data analysis
4. Successfully transformed 5+ institutions (WCF, TBS, TPSF, PSPF, BRELA etc) from manually operating processes to fully managed information systems that scale over time and are easily maintained by other developers.
5. Lead the integration between Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) and Tanzania Electronic Single Window System (TeSWS) through designing and implementations of web services using Restful APIs
6. Inspiring young developers to focus on best industry practices and love the software industry.
7. Implemented web services to interface with 5+ institutions using  Restful APIs

Software As Service (SaaS)

1. Built 4+ services with 10000+ active users from scratch (NextSMS Bulk SMS Solution (https://nextsms.co.tz), Petrol Station Management System (https://psms.co.tz/) and Accounting System (https://nextaccounting.co.tz/))
2. Managed and educated a team of 5 software engineers
3. Coordinating closely with different stakeholders to understand business requirements
4. Translating business requirements into technical requirements for the development
5. Successively implementing testable, scalable and efficient code and code reviews which lead to reliable deployed solutions.
6. Interfacing applications with third party systems e.g payment gateways, mobile network operators etc

Lead Software Engineer

Inets Company Limited

Development of Online Business Name Registration System (OBRS) and Deployment (including Server Configurations). It helped the Business Registration & Licencing agency to move from manual business processing to online automated business processing. The number of successful served applications daily increases. The average time taken to process the application improved from 3-5 days to an average of 15 minutes. 

Development of file track, RFID & Barcode enabled file tracking, store and monitoring system.

Design and Development of Continental Digital USSD application for mobile service inquiries.

Development of a server-side script for delivering and providing responses for the KaribuSMS android application using PHP, MySQL database and GCM Google plugins.

Design of a relational database for KaribuSMS platform, a bulk SMS service application that started in June 2014 and is helped medium to large scale businesses and event organizers to easily communicate to a large number of people.

Chief Technology Officer

PSPF Tanzania

Maintaining and Upgrade (Development of new major modules) of ePens Benefit Management System. I took part as a software developer and system analyst during the agile processes. The technology stack used was VB.Net, Microsoft SQL Server, Crystal Report Tools. The project was successfully implemented by restoring most of the modules to operational. It was the project which was left unmaintainable by the developer who quit the institution. The project took place from Aug 2014 to March 2017

Development of a Web and SMS based pension information management system as my final year project by using PHP, Oracle 11.2g database, HTML, CSS and Javascript which was partly completed in June 2014.

Development of a desktop application by using Visual Basic 8.0, SQL 2005 and Crystal Report 8.0 which could be used to facilitate PSPF membership details reviewing plus SMS notifications to the members using ActiveX SMS Component since September 2012 during my practical training period. It was partly completed in June 2013.

Assistant Information System Officer

Built large scalable web applications serving 10000+ users using PHP, Laravel MVC, Python, Rabbitmq server as a message broker, celery worker queuing system, Django MVT, Node.js and REST APIs as backend & React.js, TypeScript, JQuery, Plain Javascript, HTML & CSS as frontend. Relational database systems such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL. Clouse Services providers experience with Amazon Web Services and Digital Ocean Cloud Computing. Knowledgeable of NoSQL, Application System Design (Time-Space Complexity measure - Big O),  Architectural System Design (Load Balancing, High Availability, Distributed System, Caching), Machine Learning, Data Analysis with statistics for data science.

An enthusiastic and result-oriented professional interested mainly in Business Management, Research, Data Science specifically Machine Learning, Data Mining & Management, Quantitative Analysis and Data Visualization. Readily to learn new ideas, concepts and highly advanced technologies. A strong team player who is capable of collaborating with anyone. Highly motivated in getting things done with tireless efforts.

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