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GwamakaCharles/README.md

Hi, I'm Gwamaka!

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About Me

I am a Full-stack Software engineer with more than _ years of experience. I have a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and my tech-stack consists of Python, Typescript, Django, React, React Native, GraphQL, NestJS, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure and SQL Databases. My passion is to build distributed software systems with mobile and web clients and I would love to work in a company that develops distributed computing systems in their products so that I can apply my knowledge with the support of talented co-workers. I would love to become a leader in tech someday and I am learning that now. One interesting fact about me is that I am a music DJ and I love to do that whenever I get a chance.

Music DJ to Software Development

Right after college I decided to practice music dj'ing but I wasn't committed to it because I loved coding. And so I started to learn programming online, mostly at Pluralsight, Datacamp and Codecademy. I would build websites for Interfrempa and Piminnovators and then my website where I posted my Portfolio of projects I have been working on.

Cloud Computing and Serverless Technologies

Two years ago I started to learn about Cloud Computing, and through the Students - GitHub Education program, I was able to subscribe to Microsoft Azure and Digital Ocean where I learned about the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. Then I created a free account on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Cloud Computing Services to learn about Nodejs deployment and how different it is from other cloud providers. I struggled with docker containers and Kubernetes deployments on AWS and so I decided to use Azure Kubernetes Service for that.

Mobile Apps Development

I started mobile apps development 2 years ago with Flutter and React Native. I use React Native because it is easier to use the React knowledge that I have and therefore I tend to re-use most of the code I write for either a website or a mobile app. Plus, this decision becomes effective when I write the backend in TypeScript and GraphQL.

Hackathons and Bootcamps

  1. Build For Sustainable Development Goals Challenge - April 2019

    I was selected to participate in the #BuildforSDG Challenge with Andela and Facebook. I was part of the team that built an online machine learning primer notebook to teach computer science students the concepts of machine learning. We used Python and the Jupyter notebook platforms.

  2. Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship - November 2020

    I was selected to participate in the Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship | Queen's Innovation Centre (queensu.ca) where I tried to build a food delivery services startup. I used Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, React Native, GraphQL, Azure Cache for Redis and Azure PostgreSQL technologies to build mobile and web clients and deployed the backend to Microsoft Azure. My startup was not selected amog the final 10! but I learned a lot about entrepreneurship, leadership and cloud technologies.

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  1. 30-Days-Of-Code 30-Days-Of-Code Public

    Forked from sagarchoudhary96/30-Days-Of-Code

    This Repository contain solutions to HackerRank 30 Days Of Code Challenge

    Swift 1

  2. 30-Days-Of-Python 30-Days-Of-Python Public

    Forked from Asabeneh/30-Days-Of-Python

    30 days of Python programming challenge is a sep by step guide to learn Python programming language in 30 days.

    Python 1

  3. 30DaysOfJavaScript 30DaysOfJavaScript Public

    Forked from Asabeneh/30-Days-Of-JavaScript

    30 days of JavaScript programming challenge is a sep by step guide to learn JavaScript programming language in 30 days

    JavaScript 1

  4. Analyzing-the-Dimensions-of-Poverty Analyzing-the-Dimensions-of-Poverty Public

    Forked from sharmaroshan/Analyzing-the-Dimensions-of-Poverty

    The Data set is picked from Kaggle which describes the Situation of the Multidimensional Measures around the globe. In this Analysis, I have tried to used Pandas, seaborn, and Ipywidgets for the En…

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  5. Google-Job-Skills Google-Job-Skills Public

    Forked from sharmaroshan/Google-Job-Skills

    Having an Exploratory Analysis at what kind of Jobs and Job Locations are provided by Google and Youtube, also we look into some specific details which are important to get hired by youtube and goo…

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  6. interactive-coding-challenges interactive-coding-challenges Public

    Forked from donnemartin/interactive-coding-challenges

    120+ interactive Python coding interview challenges (algorithms and data structures). Includes Anki flashcards.

    Python