Antony Orenge

Antony Orenge

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ABOUT ME
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer

I am a creative problem solver with an interest in software engineering and product management. I have over 5 years of professional experience at the highest level in building scalable software solutions.
I currently work as a senior software engineer and technical lead for a company known as BRCK, where we build software to provide internet access to emerging markets. I also double as a trainer at AkiraChix, teaching over 50 girls yearly on how to program in JavaScript.
I hold a masters in software engineering from the University of Tartu in Estonia, Europe.

English
Nairobi (+03:00)
Joined October 2018
EXPERTISE
3 years experience
9 years experience
8 years experience

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SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
provJewellery
Provenance dApp for Handcrafted Jewellery
JavaScript
2
0
Koroko
A speech recognition application
Java
1
0
Stack Overflow
104 Reputation
0
2
5
EMPLOYMENTS
JavaScript Trainer
AkiraChix - akirachix.com
2019-03-01-Present
Training more than 50 young women to gain skills in web apps software development by using JavaScript as a programming language.
Training more than 50 young women to gain skills in web apps software development by using JavaScript as a programming language.
JavaScript
Knowledge transfer
JavaScript
Knowledge transfer
Senior Software Engineer
BRCK, Ltd. - brck.com
2018-12-01-Present
BRCK is a full-stack engineering company with a mission of connecting frontier markets to the internet. Accomplishments: - Developed thei...
BRCK is a full-stack engineering company with a mission of connecting frontier markets to the internet. Accomplishments: - Developed their new content management system web app (Simiti) - Developed their new Moja web app that allows users to connect to the internet by using points earned from digital work - Developed their new Moja API service that integrates with other services - Recruited software engineers and quality assurance personnel - Currently, technical team lead for Moja product
Angular
Flask
React
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Angular
Flask
React
JavaScript
Recruitment
Agile
CI/CD
Knowledge transfer
Software architects
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Senior Software Engineer
Soko, Inc. - shopsoko.com
2016-09-01-2018-11-01
Soko is a US global fast-fashion distributed manufacturer and retailer for handcrafted jewellery. Accomplishments: - Migrated their legac...
Soko is a US global fast-fashion distributed manufacturer and retailer for handcrafted jewellery. Accomplishments: - Migrated their legacy system to a microservice architecture to support scalability. - Refactored most of their legacy code for code maintainability. - Introduced continuous integration, deployment and delivery of code. This slashed by half the time it takes to deploy new features. - Improved security of their apps by performing software quality and standards tests. - Trained team members on better software engineering skills to enhance capacity development. - Trained product manager and other team members on proper business process management techniques to improve existing business processes. - Proposed coding standards and policies that were adopted as the team’s Standard Operating Procedures.
Django
Scrum
Project documentation
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Django
Scrum
Project documentation
JavaScript
Unix Server Administration
Business process management
Agile
Knowledge transfer
Angular 2
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