Desmond Brown

Full Stack Developer

Career Summary

I have longed dreamed of science and technology since I was a kid that I constantly sought it out which has made my passion in it grow exponentially with time. To me science and technology projects are fun, as such, engaging in them makes me feel like a child in a candy store. This led me into taking the challenge to code since age 14 and as such I have about 8 years of experience writing software applications. Even though I have that years of experience writing software applications, I have actually had the opportunity to work and develop real world applications for about almost 5 years now. I consider myself very proficient from an intermediate level approaching the advanced level as a result of my ability to learn very fast

Work Experience

Team Lead Software Developer

Talent CoOp
January 2023 - Present

I play the major role in planning with business owners and customers to spec-out tasks. I lead and guide developers to execute these tasks to ensure successful completion of the projects
I am involved in mentoring interns and junior devs to move to the next level. Also, I perform ocassional performance review and time allocations for developers.

Chief Technology Officer

SocialPostsAI
September 2021 - Present

I play the major role of fulfilling the technical needs of the company, by leading and delegating tasks to devs. Plan with business owners to determine the next set of features to ship to maximize profits.

PyData Global Organizer

PyData Global 2022
November 2022 - Present

I worked closely with experts from renowned companies such as Google, OpenAI and NumFocus to coordinate schedule and intakes for the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the PyData 2022 conference.

Team Lead Software Developer

Gradia Limited
October 2020 - Present

Responsible for playing a key role in the designing, building, maintaining and testing of both back-end and frontend based applications. Co-ordinating with other developers on the delivery of application code. Improving existing scripts. Reporting directly to the head of the software development team.

Achievements:

By combination of my smart, hard and persistent work, I was able come up with these achievements which not only helped save time and money for the company but also generated more income

  • Identified problems (bugs) in the previous Gradia Lab web app and created a patch that fixed it.
  • Created useful utilities such as Email service that helped bootstrap the company's development time, thereby saving time.
  • Optimized code by implementing software development best practices and the use of better suited data structures and algorithms for their specific use cases.
  • Came up with sophiscated and trickier testing methods that helped catch software bugs at early stages before production.

Technologies used:

  • React
  • Python
  • Django
  • Babel
  • Webpack
  • HTML/SASS
  • PostgresSQL
  • Circle CI

Backend Developer

BeNeverEnding Inc.
Dec 2021 - February 2022

I collaborated with both frontend devs and other backend devs to built some of the backend functionality of character building beneverending platform.

Coding Mentor

MEST - Meltwater Foundation
November 2020 - January, 2021

I was responsible for making sure students of different levels of proficiency, are able to understand full stack web development concepts using the MERN Stack (i.e Mongodb, Express, React & Node) within 6 weeks of intensive mentorship. After which I guilded them in finishing up a final project (Captsone project) to showcase their proficiency in fullstack web development using the MERN Stack

Achievements:

As always, because of the fact that passion drives my every move, I was able always available and ready to help mentees who were stuck or lost. As such I fortunately became:

  • best mentor for that particular cohort
  • mentees' favorite
  • Mentor who fixes what blocks students no matter what or when

Technologies used:

  • React
  • Node
  • Express
  • Babel
  • Webpack
  • HTML/SASS
  • Mongodb
  • JEST

Junior Software Developer

Mpedigree
March 2019 - October 2020

Responsible for designing, creating, testing, maintaining and deploying of both native android apps and web applications. Receive guildlines from the Team Lead (Senior Software Engineer) on best practicles that produces better software products.

Achievements

Even though I was starting out as a Junior Developer, I was noted for my speed and consistency in learning new concepts. As such, complex problem sets were assigned to me making me the youngest solution provider

Technologies used:

  • Python
  • Django
  • Java / Android SDK
  • Flutter
  • Ansible
  • Vagrant
  • AWS
  • PostgresSQL

Projects

Modern Blogging System

Personal
Not Deployed

A blogging platform built using Python (Django) as the backend with vanilla JS, HTML, CSS with Bootstrap and couple of other technologies including npm, sass, webpack and babel for customization of Bootstrap on the frontend. This blogging platform was intended only for educational purposes. i.e to demonstrate common web development principles and operations using Django - (a web development framework for Python). As such it was not deployed

Highlights

Even though this web application was meant for education purposes, it included almost anything a modern blogging platform will have. Below are some worth noticing ones

  • A WYSIWYG Editor particularly, CKEditor. This helps enhance an enriched writing experience. Enabling users to create contents of anykind. i.e videos, images, links, tables, etc.
  • An Authentication system that implements Login/Logout, Signup, Reset Password and Change Password
  • A tagging system that allows users to be able to tag posts and get related posts based on tags
  • A basic commenting system
  • Users can like or dislike posts
  • Integration of CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) tool particularly, Github actions and Codacy
  • Containerized driven development using Docker

Technologies used:

  • Python
  • Django
  • Github actions
  • HTML
  • CSS (Bootstrap)
  • Javascript
  • Docker
  • Sqlite3

A Fintech Web App - (CashFlow)

Company (confidential)
Deployed

A web application that basically allows users to make transactions and manage financial related stuffs.
In this app, users can:

  • make money deposits
  • make money redrawals
  • transfer funds to another user
  • keep record of their business sales
  • generate a report of their transactions
    • etc...
The functionality of this spans a lot of different different aspects as far as financials with technology is concerned. There is an integration of the local payment methods to the app. This means that users can make transactions using either banks accounts or mobile money accounts. On the frontend, it includes a dashboard for the users statistics. There is also a mini-inventory system in the app for keeping records of a user's (could be a company) products and their descriptions. There was a lot that went into this app and above are just highlights briefly what the app entails.

Highlights

The following highlights some few key features of the application

  • A full fledged authentication system that implements everything an authentication system has
  • An email service built on top of the main Django email sender for much more dynamic email sending capabilities
  • A dynamic sms service for notifying customers
  • Api for accessing all the functionalities and services the app offers. This api is used by the mobile version of this app
    • etc...

Technologies used:

  • Python
  • Django
  • Github actions
  • HTML
  • CSS (Bootstrap)
  • Javascript
  • Docker
  • Sqlite3

Skills & Tools

Frontend

  • React
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • HTML/CSS/SASS/LESS

Backend

  • Python/Django
  • Node/Express
  • Ruby/Rails
  • PHP

Mobile

  • Java
  • DART/Flutter

Others

  • DevOps
  • Code Review
  • Git
  • Unit Testing
  • Wireframing
  • Adobe xd
  • Figma
  • bash scripting
  • data mining
  • Pygame
  • Vagrant
  • sockets

Education

  • Bachelor of Science
    Georgia State University
    2022 - Present
  • Diploma (WASSCE)
    Sogakofe Senior High School
    2015 - 2018
  • Diploma (BECE)
    St. Raphael International School
    2012 - 2015

Awards

  • Best Physics Students
    Because of my love for science, and particularly things that has to do with solving problems through thing and calculating, I got the best Physics student in my badge
  • Overall Best Student
    After the summation of all the grades from the different subjects in high school, I came out as the overall best student during our graduation

Language

  • English (Native)
  • French (less profience - can read better)
  • Chinese (less proficient)

Interests

  • Music
  • Neurology
  • Robotics
  • Biology