Kenneth Ddumba

Summary

Ddumba is a full-stack One World Coder who uses tools at his disposal and comes up with software solutions.

Availability

Unavailable

Education

• 2020 - Apprenticeship with Li-Hsuan Lung and Doug Bradbury

Language Experience

• Python (practicing)
• Ruby (practicing)
• Javascript (practicing)
• Typescript (practicing)

Framework Experience

• NodeJS (practicing)
• React (practicing)
• Django (practicing)
• Flask (practicing)
• Rails (practicing)

DevOps Experience

• AWS (Learning)
• Travis (practicing)
• CircleCI (practicing)
• Docker (practincing)

Database Experience

• SQLite (practicing)
• Postgres(practicing)
• MySQL(practicing)
• MongoDB(practicing)

Project Experience

Fundraising Consulting Company

• Used Ruby on rails to extend functionality of fetching data from an external API, filter and save it to a database then create CSV files.
• Improved performance of data insertion by 80% by switching to bulk insertions of huge data.
• Wrote system tests to ensure the apps works as expected from a user’s point of view.

Asset Managing Platform

• Used Flask to set up permissions and roles in the project there by limiting access to confidential data
• Improved email notifications and alerts by setting up daily cron jobs.
• improved fetching of data by adding filters which led to a decrease in the time it took in decision making.
• Wrote more tests that led to removing of redundant code.

Medical software platform

• Introduced caching functionality which led to an improvement in performance and load time while fetching results.
• Expanded user roles and permissions into the platform to limit access of data to only people who need it which improved on confenditiality.
• Advocated for and spearheaded adding a notification feature to send SMS to patients when their results are ready.
• Added data backing up functionalty to ensure that incase anything happens to the databases we have a back up of the data.

2-player strategy game

• Used ruby to develop an engine that I used to extended to come up with a console and web API version.

Open source projects

Drf-tracking

• Developed and maintains a python django rest framework package that tracks and saves create, update and delete operations done in an application.

ObjectDotNotate

• A javascript library that helps to turn a nested layered object into a single layered object with dot notataions. I did this to help me filtering while working with mongo db.I hope this benefits some other developers.