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Rodney Boachie

Accra

Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Respectful self-motivator gifted at finding reliable solutions for software issues. Fluent in Java and JavaScript and accustomed to working with cross-cultural, global teams.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Backend Engineer

Andela Limited
11.2019 - Current
  • Accomplishment 1: Increased mobile application API integration time by over 300% by building Java SDK for interacting directly with API
  • Accomplishment 2: Built Java Microservices for clients that led to 100K+ customer lead conversion rate in first three months alone.

Senior Backend Engineer

CarnegieLearning
10.2022 - 06.2023
  • Built ExpressJS backend API that interfaced with Clever Education Systems and other third-party ed-tech solutions to provide real-time student identity information to CarnergieLearning Platform. (Typescript,ExpressJS,Javascript,MongoDB)
  • Added full OAuth implementation to CTP codebase as independent identity service which allowed third-party vendors of CarnergieLearning API to securely automate authorization of their data to their different clients. This led to 150% increase in third-party API customers in first quarter of 2023. (Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Amazon RDS, Spring Security, Hibernate)
  • Resolved major bugs and rebuilt portions of existing RosterImport Engine which led to 66% increase in speed of importing student data as cron job. (Javascript,NodeJS, MySQL)
  • Developed and maintained core product services, libraries and frameworks.

Senior Backend Engineer

IBM
05.2022 - 09.2022
  • Canadian Lightning Ingest: Built and deployed microservice in GitOps environment that records live nationwide Canadian lightning data feed and makes it available to global weather channel feeds, this prevents airlines from fatal accidents that could directly affect over 10000 lives daily utilizing k8s, docker, flux, Java, Spring Boot, AWS EKS and other microservices tools.

Senior Software Engineer

Safaricom
07.2021 - 04.2022
  • Audit Microservice: Built Audit Microservice API which aggregates key operations from 12 microservices in business suite using Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Redis PubSub
  • Shiriki Microservice: Built Shiriki Microservice API which transports data from USSD service into RESTful endpoints for usage on SMB platform using Java, Spring Boot, Postgres,Redis
  • Ticket Microservice: Developed ticket microservice which handles ticketing and billing of over 10000 businesses in Kenya using Java, Spring Boot, Postgres
  • Accomplishment 1: 300% new businesses(compared to total businesses in previous year) signed up on new platform in first month alone
  • Accomplishment 2: Audit API was developed, there was 50% more conflict resolutions that happened in less than 30seconds as compared to typical duration of 3days in previous manual work.

Lead Software Engineer

Pedagog Limited
02.2019 - 10.2019
  • Pedagog App: Led team of engineers to deliver complex, fault-tolerant, and scalable learning application serving students in Africa making use of Angular, Typescript, Spring Boot, Java, NodeJS, dart, flutter
  • Accomplishment 1: Designed algorithm that detected students’ academic weaknesses and suggested concise steps to improve their grades
  • Accomplishment 2: Incorporated Kubernetes for auto-scaling, allowing for application with high-traffic volume tolerance.

Senior Software Engineer

Callens Solutions Limited
06.2017 - 10.2019
  • Tasks: Worked on all aspects of application design, development, and deployment for B2B contracts across various industries, including finance, pharmaceuticals, and insurance
  • Created software solutions that contributed to increased annual sales for clients
  • Accomplishment 1: Pioneered mobile application that resulted in first revenue for company
  • Accomplishment 2: Achieved 100% electronic automation for several bank processes
  • Accomplishment 3: Deployed SmartOil, modular and scalable application for Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority that remotely delivers real-time administrator reports.

Principal Software Engineer

SwiftPot Solutions Limited
01.2016 - 05.2017
  • Tasks: Guided versatile team of engineers building various bespoke solutions for clients in finance, telecommunications, and education industries
  • Accomplishment 1: Built timetable generation app that yielded time savings of 3000%, shortening client’s timetable scheduling process from three weeks to 30 minutes.
  • Accomplishment 2: Developed bulk SMS solution that successfully delivered 10K+ messages daily.

Backend Engineer

IT Consortium Limited Accra
04.2015 - 12.2016
  • Tasks: Furnished clear competitive advantages to clients in Banking and Finance as back-end engineer at one of Africa’s leading fin-tech service providers
  • Focused on mobile money wallet integration, including for two of Ghana’s top banks, as well as payment platform API services for third parties
  • Accomplishment 1: Automated Ghana TV License Registration and Payment USSD channel, resulting in 150% increase in registrations and collected payments
  • Accomplishment 2: Integrated MTN’s Mobile Money (MoMo) transfer API into core banking service of CalBank Ghana, allowing bank to offer MoMo transactions.

Java Full Stack Developer

Union System Global Accra
12.2013 - 02.2015
  • Entrusted to perform all Java integration for clients’ core banking systems
  • Accomplishment 1: Developed mobile application that allowed customers to perform 90% of banking operations remotely
  • Accomplishment 2: Developed custom SWIFT Java library that empowered client to conduct over $1M in international money transfers in first year.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

All Nations University College
Koforidua, Eastern Region
12.2013

Skills

  • Languages: Java, JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Kotlin, Solidity
  • Technologies: Stack, Databases & Frameworks: AWS, Spring-Boot, Spring, Angular,Ionic, Kafka, GCE, MySQL
  • Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, Hibernate, Kubernetes, REST, Continuous Integration(CI), Jenkins, Continuous
  • Deployment(CD), TDD, Unit Testing, Mockito, testcontainer, JUnit, JIRA, Spring Data

Timeline

Senior Backend Engineer

CarnegieLearning
10.2022 - 06.2023

Senior Backend Engineer

IBM
05.2022 - 09.2022

Senior Software Engineer

Safaricom
07.2021 - 04.2022

Senior Backend Engineer

Andela Limited
11.2019 - Current

Lead Software Engineer

Pedagog Limited
02.2019 - 10.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Callens Solutions Limited
06.2017 - 10.2019

Principal Software Engineer

SwiftPot Solutions Limited
01.2016 - 05.2017

Backend Engineer

IT Consortium Limited Accra
04.2015 - 12.2016

Java Full Stack Developer

Union System Global Accra
12.2013 - 02.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

All Nations University College

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