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Kwadwo Ampadu-Yeboah

Software Engineer
Accra,AA

Summary

I am a resourceful engineer looking to design, develop and improve expansive solutions. With years of experience working with remote teams on complex and exciting projects, I have demonstrated my understanding of core programming, and the ability to think effectively over problems to create solutions that scale. My full-stack capabilities give me a well-versed opinion on the interworking of intricate solutions, which makes me an exceptional candidate - a creative and ingenious engineer.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Social Security and National Insurance Trust
Accra
08.2018 - 05.2021

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust, is an agency of the government of Ghana. It administrates the National Pension Scheme. In so doing, the trust owns major amounts of stock in Ghana's principal companies, and is an important part of Ghana's economy.

Supported the development of the official SSNIT mobile application. The application's tasks were to aid end users access pension statements, access the SSNIT calendar, access the SSNIT pension calculator, put in benefits request and more. The frontend was built using Java for android, swift for IOS, and the backend, Laravel - powered API driven.

Independently built a system for the records department. The web - based system helps keep track of the SSNIT records, it allows record addition, physical record tracking, record request - this goes through a chain of permission grants, and responsibility transfer. The system also allows employees to attach documents and images to the records. The front end was built with react and backend with python.

Led the development of the USSD platform to merge the SSNIT social security number and National Identification Authority number for the entirety of the country. This was a nationwide project.

Led the development of a USSD platform that allows employers pay their contributions and SSNIT debts through a mobile payment method called "Mobile money".

Other things I did:

  • Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
  • Created procedures for system monitoring, recovery, backup and optimization.
  • Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments.
  • Built chatbots for all SSNIT social platforms.
  • Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
  • Consulted regularly with internal customers on application development project status, new project proposals and software-related technical issues.
  • Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.
  • Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in programming and working to improve overall team performance.

Lead Developer

Akoa Limited
Accra
09.2019 - 05.2020

Insurance Market Ghana

Insurance market is an auto insurance generator, it hosts the different insurance companies in Ghana and helps auto generate accurate quotes from each host for the end users. Example, motor and home insurance.

Independently developed and deployed this system. On this project, i demonstrated my competence in frontend development by designing intuitive graphical user interfaces using knowledge of serial communications and database design to improve user experience ensuring the applications were designed to meet modern UI standards, and in backend development by delivering excellent and secure Laravel APIs for a plethora of services that drive the application experience.

Designed and maintained integrated requirement traceability matrices to verify development performance consistency for the project.

Implemented target tracking to research prototypes over large data sets.

Lead Developer (Mkay)

Blache Inc
Accra
10.2019 - 03.2020

Mkay is a fashion marketplace that provides a request-based shopping experience for fashionistas in Africa who struggle with finding exact clothing styles in an era of big, impersonal service and selections that contain everything but the style they want.

A modern fashion marketplace solution. As the sole architect and developer for the Mkay application, I independently developed the full stack application for the end-users: buyers, vendors and fashion designers. The solution includes 3 cross-platform mobile applications built with flutter, and Laravel for backend. The application allows vendors upload products through "stories" and allows the fashion designers upload product through a personalized setup store. End-users are able to purchase from these stories or stores and also put in requests from specific kinds of fashion items.

The project comprised of one application for the buyers, one for the vendors and the last for the fashion designers with a web-base administrator application built on Laravel, Javascript and Tailwind. I executed the project from planning, through to design, development and deployment.

Intern Junior Developer

MTN Ghana
Accra
09.2017 - 12.2017

MTN is a multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in many African and Asian countries.

  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
  • Assisted in business acquisition efforts by designing customized solutions for proposals to potential customers.
  • Inspected equipment, assessed functionality and optimized controls.

Intern Junior Developer

SIC Insurance Company
Accra
09.2016 - 12.2016

SIC Insurance Company is a Ghanaian insurance company. They are listed on the stock index of the Ghana Stock Exchange, the GSE All-Share Index.

  • Recommended and installed upgrades and helped businesses to plan for technology to match growth.
  • Planned and developed interfaces that simplified overall management and offered ease of use.
  • Inspected equipment, assessed functionality and optimized controls.

Intern Junior Developer

West African Gas Pipeline
Accra
09.2015 - 12.2015

The West African Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline to supply gas from Nigeria's Escravos region of the Niger Delta area to Benin, Togo and Ghana. It is the first regional natural gas transmission system in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Conducted research on network products, services, protocols and standards for network procurement and development efforts.
  • Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers and other hardware.
  • Inspected equipment, assessed functionality and optimized controls.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Ghana Inst. of Management & Public Administration
Ghana
02.2014 - 03.2018

High School Diploma -

St. Peters Senior High School
Ghana
09.2009 - 11.2013

Skills

    Python

DevOps

Java

Software Development

NOSQL

SQL

Flutter

PHP

REST/RESTful APIs

React

Nodejs

Web services

Javascript/jQuery

Ajax

Swift

Timeline

Lead Developer (Mkay)

Blache Inc
10.2019 - 03.2020

Lead Developer

Akoa Limited
09.2019 - 05.2020

Senior Software Engineer

Social Security and National Insurance Trust
08.2018 - 05.2021

Intern Junior Developer

MTN Ghana
09.2017 - 12.2017

Intern Junior Developer

SIC Insurance Company
09.2016 - 12.2016

Intern Junior Developer

West African Gas Pipeline
09.2015 - 12.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Ghana Inst. of Management & Public Administration
02.2014 - 03.2018

High School Diploma -

St. Peters Senior High School
09.2009 - 11.2013
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