Stephen Wanyee

Inquisitive software engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience building impactful solutions with React, Vue, and NestJS. I've led engineering teams where I mentored developers and managed to cut our release cycles in half by streamlining our workflows and automating repetitive processes. I'm big on using analytics and session recordings to make smart, data-backed decisions that actually improve user experience and business metrics.

One of my greatest strengths is asking the right questions that uncover the core problems and create clarity that improves execution.

Software Engineer at Patrium Health (2023-10 – Present)

• Built a custom WYSIWYG-like text editor in the Directus CMS using tiptap API to define text-based form input for the Patrium platform
• Provided support and contributed to the react-native mobile codebase improving user experience
• Developed nodejs scripts that automated refactoring migrations from serverless-heavy codebase to a NestJS microservice monolith
• Technologies: nestjs, vuejs, reactjs, redux, react-native, directus CMS, aws incognito, aws appsync

Product Developer at Kinetic Education (2022-09 – 2023-10)

• Led a 3-member engineering team, specialising in Django and React
• Streamlined codebase, optimising database operations, and introduced new features within a tight 2-month launch period
• Reduced release cycles to 2 weeks, resulting in more stable product releases through good processes and automations
• Collaborated with the CEO on product strategy utilising product analytic tools to make data-driven decisions
• Contributed to the development and release of 3 new modules during tenure

Software Engineer at Identigate Integrated Solutions (2021-06 – 2022-09)

• Led the development of SaaS applications using Laravel, Vue, InertiaJS and TailwindCSS
• Promoted a culture of writing tests and improving supporting documentation on the team
• Created technical workflows in wikis to support education and training of newly hired employees
• Operated as part of continuous delivery pipelines, providing ongoing contributions to rapid development efforts

Software Development Consultant at Slash Dot Labs Limited (2020-06 – 2020-07)

• Built applications that integrate with the iPay payment platform, handling the whole development cycle from requirement analysis to deployment
• Helped debug and maintain several WordPress plugins

Software Developer at Slash Dot Labs Limited (2020-01 – 2020-03)

• Worked in a small team of interns handling several client projects, mainly WordPress-based
• Handled data integration and backend business logic for client projects
• Developed a WordPress plugin for a coupons site to handle payment integrations
• Introduced CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) to the company's development processes
• Championed documentation of company processes for posterity and better developer on-boarding

Project Intern at HP Research Lab, Strathmore University (2019-03 – 2019-12)

• Part of the backend team building an Integrated Academic Management System for an insurance college
• Handled data integrations from their existing system and linked new APIs to the system
• Participated in setting up the staging and deployment servers for the system
• Served on the demo team during client progress meetings

Bachelor of Science in Informatics and Computer Science – Strathmore University