Building
Consolidated efforts in my building journey
My mantra - invoke the builder within and serve
I broadly categorise what I do into: Building and Serving.
Discover additional information about Building below 👇, and Serving here.
-> Please refer to my LinkedIN profile for more details on my career journey so far.
Skills and Competencies
I'm well versed in the Agile-Scrum framework
Worked remotely for 9+ years
- Software Engineering
- Technical Team Leadership
- DevOps and Productivity Engineering
- Product Management
- Product Documentation and Technical Writing
I'm available to assist, and explore synergies and potential collaborations.
Software Engineering
As a software engineer, I'm in the business of solving problems with tools (Programming languages, devices, and other technologies)
My engineering philosophy leans on Coding is like plastic; there's already much of it in the world meaning that:
- I seek out non-technical solutions in addition to technical ones
- I strive to reuse and repurpose code, not reinvent the wheel
- I empower others by creating tools, templates and workflows for productivity
Languages I chiefly write in
Retired (but write periodically)
Technical Team Leadership and People Management
Beyond serving as a Senior Engineer, I have chosen to accept people management roles as a technical team lead in some teams:
- Tushiyah Ministry Tech Team (2022-Present)
- Belwethr (2019)
and for a number of my mentees: (Discussing and planning upskilling efforts and career changes)
Tools and Resources
I implore that self-mastery and self development is important. Some tools I use are:
- The 6 types of Working geniuses analysis. Here's my write up on the model.
- Personality traits: Lion, Otter, GR, Beaver
For career development and upskilling, I create personalised skills matrices per individual (factoring in skills-gap, role, and aspiration). To get the idea consider these:
DevOps and Productivity Engineering
- Creating CI/CD pipelines
- Deploying to various cloud providers
- Improving developer workflow
Leveraging tools and cutting local and CI/CD build time for productivity
Related tools
Product Management
As mentioned earlier in Skills and Competencies, I'm well versed in the Agile - Scrum framework; both as a participant and a lead.
I organise the four key scrum ceremonies:
- Sprint planning
- Stand-up
- Sprint review
- Sprint retrospective (Retro)
Break down work into stories and epics, organise them into sprints, collaborate with stakeholders and chart product roadmaps.
I have served in this capacity in organizations, and personal and family projects:
- DigiTax (2023-Present)
- Tushiyah Ministry Tech Team (2022-Present)
- Andela (2018)
Tools and Reference
Here's a guide to scrum by Atlassian.
Since specific tools are opinionated and thereby affect how we do things, I've considered:
- The Shortcut way by Shortcut
- The Linear method by Linear. I'm still testing out Linear as an alternative to my workflow.
Product Documentation and Technical Writing
- I employ the Doc-as-code approach
- I champion Diátaxis framework of technical documentation
This is a systematic framework for technical documentation authoring.
Diátaxis identifies four modes of documentation - tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. It derives its structure from the relationship between them.
Tools
Passion projects
- DIY (Do It Yourself) projects
- Carpentry - Here are some photos of my mini-projects.
- Motor vehicle tinkering and upgrading - Here are some photos of a 1998 Honda CRV.