Candidates About

Meyer Kimera

SUMMARY

I work with people, and a times work independently, as I take part in different solutions development phases. I can greatly collaborate in the development of computer programs, software engineering, web applications development, and management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·         Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Mac OS and UNIX operating systems.

·         Web Servers: Apache, Nginx.

·         Web Development: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Django, Flask.

·         Mobile Development: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Bootstrap

·         Programming Languages: Python, Javascript

·         Databases: SQL Server, Postresql, MySQL

·         Cloud: AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

WORK EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS                                                                                                              

Full Stack Python Developer | Umojivity.com | 2013 - Present

·         Python/Django Web Application Development
I’m part of the lead development team, developing a user-centric, data-processor, and cross-browser web application, with a front-end that renders and views responsively across multiple viewports. The backend is built to allow for a dynamic and user engagement, powering users to create valuable and compelling user experiences in-turn. I have used the feature driven development methodology as my first approach to finding and applying the right methods through a stack of challenges during designing, coding and iteration stages.

·         Security and Stress Testing
I frequently perform surface threat explorations on the app’s front end stack in order to discover areas where security can be improved. This takes an active and collaborative role play with developers, and test users, during code performance testings, hybrid security testings, cross browser testings, load stress performance testing, and syntax validations during the apps lifecycle  stages. This phase enables our development and production teams to model, design and deploy scalable and secured apps.

·         Data Models and Development
I also collaborate in the stages of deploying code with Python’s Object-relational-mappers to synchronize, improve, maintain and scale a custom CMS portal which performs CRUD operations on MySQL and PostgreSQL servers.

·         Cloud Provisioning | AWS Certified Solutions Architect
As a cloud architect, I always have to apply the best architectural practices to design and operate reliable, secured, efficient and cost effective systems on Amazon Web Services that run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures.

·         Linux / LAMP / LNPP
Because Linux is designed to handIe the more demanding needs of business applications, Linux is our first choice OS. I actively design and test environments, components, and stack for code committing. To ensure all processes operate within specified limits and configurations for use, I continuously take part in layering security protocols that allow managing permissions to system's resources, perform system and package installations, updates and decommissioning of systems and packages.

Apple Sr Advisor for iOS and Mac Devices | Convergys | April, 2016 - April, 2017

·         For one year, I successfully embarked on a customer service challenge/journey, in order for me to learn, work-together with and help customers resolve software, hardware and usability related issues. Determining customers’ issue causes, and in order to find and apply good working solutions, I actively and continuously listened and as well collaborated with customers as we worked toward a solution. I successfully resolved over 3800+ tech issues and subsequently, this made customers happy.

Python/Django Software Developer | Technology Assurance Labs | Nov 2015 – Jan 2016

·         I refactored and re-wrote python code for a Django web application. I collaborated during bug fixes, feature enhancement and application documentation of the OWL site service portal. I successfully created  and implemented a multiple files uploader for parsing MID data aggregated from a multi-faceted user interactivity backend. This enabled tracking of business critical  information from the web portal management and reporting output of the application stack.

DevOps Freelancer | Umojivity 2013 – 2015

·       DevOps | Github, Vagrant, Jenkins, Chef, AWS, Slack, Email
leaned inward implementing with the lean and agile principles and methodologies. I collaborated in shared objectives such as capturing the right process data, curbing down and dealing with bottlenecks, inefficiencies or waste during a project, an app or a process’s life cycle. I collaborated in the planning, issue tracking, monitoring, configuration management, source control interactions, computing, networking environment architecting, continuous integrations and deployments.

Personal Projects | 2011 – 2013

·         Transitioned relocation from South Africa to USA.

·         Took Computer Science e-Courses.

·         Read numerous developers’ code.

Co-founder | Full Stack Developer | Corps Savants Networks | 2007 – 2010

·         Helped to design an Intranet application used for opportunity management and global markets forecast. HTML, CSS, PHP, Python,  CGI, Apache, HTTP, MySQL.

·         Web Server administration experience including hardening, website operation, and managing production web environment.

·         SSL encryption/decryption, certificate maintenance, and renew (OpenSSL).

·         Installed and configured Apache web servers to enable answering and secure HTTP connections.

·         Installed and enabled SSL certificates in default SSL Vhosts.

·         Implemented instance hardening.

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                 

Continuing Education

Edx, http://edx.org

Udacity, http://udacity.com

Coursera, http://coursera.org

Khan Academy, http://khanacademy.org

·         Software Engineering and Website Apps Development.

·         Statistics and decision making based on data, Algorithm designs and analysis.

·         Computer Design and Software Testing.

Information Technology, Diploma | 2004 – 2006

Boston City Campus, Johannesburg, South Africa

·         A+, Networking, Trouble Shooting, Network Security

·         Windows, Linux, Networking.

·         IT Project management.

Computer Science, Certificate | 2003 – 2004

Boston City Campus, Johannesburg, South Africa

·         Introduction to Computer Science.