Olivier JM Maniraho

• Building and maintaining high quality code
• Interviewed new candidates
• Trained new software engineers and make sure team was productive
• Ensured coding standards are enforced
• Ran Engineering meetings
• Offering technical support to engineers
• Ensured engineering processes are easy
• Lead technicalities of product features
• Implementation of WhatsApp API that increate users reach by 70% faster.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
• Learned leadership skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.

• Implemented different core features of DoubleGDP application such as - Dynamic custom forms which allowed users to create any type of forms and quick collect data and perform other actions based on what users submitted
• Gate Access: Iteratively worked on a gate access system that records about 500 guests everyday, Users were able to quickly invite guest invitations, record users entering, This made it easy for users to know who has gone in or out and increase security where this was deployed.
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Employed peer code review to better delegate error checking duties and enhance debugging outcomes.

• Worked with distributed team to deliver cutting edge solutions.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, and working to improve overall team performance.
• Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.

• Responsible for maintaining open source software "SparkEd", currently being used by 150000 users in Ethiopia
• Adopted engineering best practices and delivered highest quality scalable solutions.
• I helped lead SparkEd project in both architecting, development and delivering it.

• Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality and performance by 40%
• Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
• Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.

• Planned website development, converting mockups into usable web presence with HTML, JavaScript, AJAX and JSON coding.
• Developed and implemented process flow improvement and standardization projects
• Prepared and delivered bootcamp lessons for Javascript
• Scheduled and taught in class to increase learning opportunities.
• Quickly adapted training plans for client needs
• Performed continuous evaluations of content and plans to enhance delivery and improve effectiveness.
• Developed individualized training plans to achieve staff readiness.

• Planned website development, converting mockups into usable web presence with HTML, JavaScript
• Determined coding requirements for specialized scripts.

• Over a few weekends I volunteered to teach Lubuto Library stuff on how they can teach community kids computer skills and other technical related skills,
• Reached more than 200 girls through 5 trainees I trained.
• Curriculum I developed for this program can be found here https://bit.ly/3PFxjVZ

• In 2019 I helped start and lead forLoopZambia a chapter of an Africa wide community of passionate software developers (forLoopAfrica)
• Organised forloop meetups where we talked about different technologies and taught each others on the best practices of using them.
• Organised about 4 meetups in the year 2019 and reached over 100 software developers from across the country.
• Analyzed, prepared and managed community's operation

During school breaks in the period of 2017 - 2018 I volunteered as a lead trainer to help teach girls in rural areas in Girls Can Code Camps around the country(Zambia), We reached more than 500 girls who had no access to electricity and computers.

We taught them using small solar powered RaspberryPI, Python, Scratch and BBC Microbit. At the end of the camps, we provided them with solar power little computers.