Amos Welike (@amoswels)
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Software Developer
Kampala
Meet client needs, build quality products, provide great experience to technology consumers.
Andela Developers Uganda andela.com
●Developed a tool to improve meal management and tracking for the organization which reduced costs spent on missed meals that were being billed for. ● Built out features for a meeting room management application for better room management. ● Built a tool that was used by people to pen down their thoughts, stories, and plans. ● Led a program titled superwoman, under the women in technology department that were aimed at equipping women with technical skills and securing internship opportunities for them as well. ● Offered myself up for leadership and pioneered an outreach to the Kampala school of the physically handicapped, where we shared a meal with the disabled children and gave out all the merchandise that we had gathered from contributions. ● Volunteered for several leadership roles that weren't limited to; cohort rep, society rep, and community initiatives. ● Participated in agile scrum development as a scrum master and attended all the scrum events. This style of project management contributed immensely to the success of all the applications that I was a part of.
MassChallenge masschallenge.org
- Contributed to the accelerate code base by building features and resolving bugs. - Actively participated in all agile scrum meetings, estimation, ticket grooming, and PR reviews. - Continually support the data engineering team during Partner Online judging that required data manipulation and constant database updates. - Offered myself up for leadership as a sprint lead, wrote up tickets, led Epics, and facilitated retrospective meetings. - I proactively assigned myself infrastructure tickets and delivered them.
PostBank (U) Ltd postbank.co.ug
● Built an application that PostBank clients can access from anywhere to update their information without necessarily having to walk into the banking hall. Link to application- (https://kycupdate.postbank.co.ug/). ● Built the administration application for bank operation managers to access and review this client update information and take action e.g. Approve or reject the information update. This application is housed locally on the bank's internal network. ● Led the design of all the necessary documentation templates that are to be used going forward. These documents include a Functional specification document, technical speciation document, and user manuals. ● Built multi-level document approval workflow using Microsoft SharePoint, power automate, power apps, and SharePoint connectors ● Supported mobile and internet banking vendors during the revamp of the project ● Attended a Finacle training and gained technical experience that helps with troubleshooting and fixing any issues at the bank transactional level. FInacle is the core banking system of the bank. ● Built a stock management application used by the administration office to track, monitor, approve, reject and issue stock to branches. This application is used by branches to requisition for stock as well. ● Led agile scrum events to aid in effective project management and tracking
Volunteer Online Mission volunteeronlinemissions.org
Amos received a 3 months contract to work as a sole developer on a project to manage online volunteers, their subscriptions, payments, and learning. The key role was to build out pending features, as well as to execute all bugs and chores as were required Built out a web application with this website https://volunteeronlinemissions.org/
GBi-Solutions (U) Ltd gbi-solutions.com
● Successfully developed the key features of the existing customer relationship management system. ● Improved the full entire authentication process for a new user so as to improve client experience and satisfaction. It was also a way to enhance the security of the application. ● Improved the user interface designs for the different screens of the application ● Changed the structure of the codebase to increase modularity. ● Saved the company from incredible financial loss by saving the project and having it delivered on schedule.
Enovate Soft Limited enovatesoftug.com
Amos joined a team of 2 other developers to develop a web Application (Conkevlists) that can allow research about all politically exposed people and perform analytics on the data models to generate desired patterns across the information. Find the key achievements below; ● Learned above financial risk profiling and made necessary system design recommendations for the different bank-facing applications that were being built. ● Built a tool that helped the company to reduce costs when gathering data about politically exposed people. This tool offered analytics as well. ● Supported a team of 3 with onsite client deployment roles, mostly at Finance Trust Bank
Rural Electrification Agency rea.or.ug
Amos undertook internship training as a requirement for the partial fulfillment of the award of a degree in software engineering. Worked on a project that was to customize the Human Resource Management System. Please find my key achievements below; ● Gained extensive knowledge as regards the grid system of tracking electric pole faults across the country. ● Supported the selection and customization of a human resources management system for the internal use of the organization. ● Participated in the set up of a local area network at the agency. I configured part of the patch panel, made ethernet cables, and also laid cables across different terminals. ● Documented and successfully passed my internship. http://www.rea.or.ug/
NanoDegreeProgram, React
Proof you completed a career-related program focused on technical skills Certificate of graduation from a Udacity Nanodegree program
Built out three projects - React Fundamentals - React & Redux - React Native
Bachelor's of Science, Software Engineering
Attained my Bachelor's degree after four years of study at Makerere University
Leadership in Halls of residence
College Degree, Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education
Organized by the Uganda National Examinations Board, I completed this course as a pre-requisite to join University.
Leadership and co-curricular activities
College Degree, Uganda Certificate of Education
Organized by the Uganda National Examinations Board, I completed this course as a pre-requisite to join University.
Leadership and co-curricular activities
Preliminary Studies, Primary Leaving Examinations
Organized by the Uganda National Examinations Board, I completed this course as a pre-requisite to join University.
Leadership and co-curricular activities
Society Leader, and Cohort representative
at Andela Developers Uganda The role involved representing fellow colleagues while at work when it came to issues that pertain to organizing events, resolving queries, and being a voice for other colleagues.
Mentor
I worked together with a team of women-in-tech leaders to design up a curriculum that would help ladies in the tech space to learn javascript and later on React Js. We structured the program such that every lady had their own mentor who would aid them with learn and any other facilitation they would need. We organized meetups for debriefs and engagement. I believe that together we inspired a number of women to join the software development industry and they are currently learning the necessary skills to help them kickstart their careers. Details https://github.com/super-woman
Youth Leader
The role involved in active leadership at Rolec for over 10 years now. The voluntary role/work is assigned to individuals that have been mentored and possess the ability to lead, direct, and hold others accountable to the integrity of the accepted ethics.
Team Lead
As a cohort representative of my teammates, we were able to mobilize resources within the organization that I worked at. We raised over two million Uganda Shillings and a notable quantity of relief items. We delivered them to the School of the handicapped, had a meal with them, and brought smile to many. This was fulfiling.
Network assistant
The role involved setting up a Local Area Network for the company. He made over 50 ethernet cables for the client, and helped in configuring the patch panel.
The U.S. Department of State runs Zoohackathon
Amos was part of a team that participated in the 2019 zoo hackathon where they emerged as second runners up. For details about the hackathon, https://uganda-zoohackathon-2019.devpost.com/ Details about the concept presented. https://devpost.com/software/wics-wildlife-intelligent-crime-scanner
Andela Developers Uganda Limited
Ensures that there is prompt, immediate, effective and reliable attention that is given to the victims. The attention could be from a registered colleague, family member, insurance service provider, police, or even the nearest registered health facility. Check it out here https://devpost.com/software/isafe-aihkqr
Built Lego. Lego is an illustration of a geology concept called faulting. Which is the process by which the rift-valley was formed. Through this education, I hope that it’ll help a geology teacher, lecturer, student, parent or researcher better understand the whole concept of faulting. Check out here for more - https://devpost.com/software/lego
MTN Uganda
Amos was part of the team of three that won the in the agricultural category for the best agricultural application. He presented the concept with his teammates. https://techjaja.com/winners-mtn-app-challenge-2017/ https://www.facebook.com/MTNUG/videos/1907695932589978 at timestamp 2:10:28hrs