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Marvelous Arku

Marvelous Arku

Senior Software Engineer
Greater Accra,Greater Accra
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Work History

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FULL STACK

POYNT
Greater Accra
01.2024 - Current
  • Developing API's for the Vendor Service in the Poynt social commerce application built with a microservice architecture.
  • Built a React checkout feature for the Poynt vendors to allow their buyers buy products in a seamless way by accessing a url.
  • Serving API's for Aider which is a docker containerized microservice application with the Laravel framework used.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FRONTEND

IT CONSORTIUM
Accra
09.2019 - 12.2023
  • Built the administrative portal for Ghana's electronic currency(E-Cedi) software system.
  • Created user interface designs and developed parts of Ghana's central governmental software system(ghana.gov.gh) which has essential services like Ghana Passport applications & management, Ghana Revenue Authority and Ghana Immigration Service.
  • Developed and maintained the employee KPI management system. Used PHP(Laravel) for the version one and Angular & PHP(Laravel) for version two.
  • Developed Chango web applications(Private & Public Portals) - The company's first crowd funding platform with over 2.5 million customer base. This was developed with Angular & Laravel.

MOBILE APP DEVELOPER INTERN

SNOOCODE
Accra
09.2017 - 08.2018
  • Developed the company’s first energy saving application.
  • Developed Snoocode Red - An application built to cater for health care emergency services in Ghana. This was developed using Android Studio and Java.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

GHANA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, Accra, Ghana
11.2019
  • Second Class Honours - Upper Division

Skills

  • Core Web Stacks Include - HTML, CSS, Typescript & JavaScript, PHP
  • Frameworks - Angular, Laravel
  • Libraries - Bootstrap, Tailwind, MaterialUI, React, Redux, jQuery
  • Query Languages - SQL(mySQL)
  • API's - REST, Graphql
  • Containerization - Docker & Docker Compose
  • Main Tools - Figma, Trello, VSCode, TeamWork, ClickUp, Jira, Slack, Cloud9
  • Cloud - AWS, Github, Bitbucket
  • Web and MVC Architecture
  • GIT

Work Availability

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Timeline

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FULL STACK - POYNT
01.2024 - Current
SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FRONTEND - IT CONSORTIUM
09.2019 - 12.2023
MOBILE APP DEVELOPER INTERN - SNOOCODE
09.2017 - 08.2018
GHANA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY - Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

Projects

  • A Towing Service Locator(QuickTow) – An application that connects vehicle drivers to towing service workers whereas when a driver's vehicle breaks down in the middle of the road, he or she easily requests a nearby towing company through a real time map, and they get their vehicles towed in a safer and more convenient way.
  • Mediware – A connected medical “village” of patients, doctors and pharmacists that allows patients to access both past and present medical records, allows easy communication between the 3 parties and allows easy issuance of medication by
    pharmacists through permitted review of patients' health conditions, especially allergies. This was done using Blockchain technology(Ethereum) and web technology (HTML5, CSS3 & JS(Angular)).

Activities

  • IBM Bootcamp Participant & Coordinator – IBM GHANA (February, 2019)
  • Republica Ghana Festival - Coordination Volunteer(December,2018)
  • Sanitation Hackathon Team Lead By Ministry Of Sanitation & Water Resources(MoSAWR), Ghana – SanXpress Team(December, 2018)
  • Volunteering In Teaching High School Girls The Basics Of Programming - Legacy Senior High School & Galaxy International School (September, 2018 and October, 2018)
  • Participant Of Developers In Vogue BootCamp (June, 2017)

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

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