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Clifford Beta

Software Engineer
Adept problem solver, self-starter, and curious engineer with a love for concurrent, scalable, resilient, and cloud-native software. Demonstrates a proven record of success in leading engineering teams, simplifying processes, and managing multiple projects delivered on time. Possesses exceptional communication skills.
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Goldman Sachs
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Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
London, UK

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
  • Profession
    Back-end Engineer
  • Fields
    Software
  • Work experience
    4-6 years
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 5-10 people
  • Skills
    Java
    c#
    Python
    AI & Machine Learning
    golang
    MySQL / Mariadb
    MongoDB
    Redis
    Neo4j
    influxdb
    PostgreSQL
    Docker
    Kubernetes
    RabbitMQ
    Mqtt
    Firebase real-time datebase
    Firebase Cloud Messaging
    Microservices
    Akka
    Git
    Slack
    Skype
    Timescale
    PostGIS
    Ansible
  • Languages
    English
    Professional
    Swahili
    Professional
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Backend Engineer
  • Desired work locations
    Canada
    United Kingdom
    United States
    Netherlands
  • Freelance

Work Experience

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Associate

Goldman Sachs
Full-time
Sep 2022 - Present
London, UK
• Payments platform modernization. Implemented an automated functional testing framework integrated into the CI pipeline for the Payment Release Service. This cut the testing time from 1 day to under 30 minutes. • Worked on Kafka Connect Rest Endpoint security. Implemented a connect rest extension library to integrate with the firm's identity and access management systems. • Led efforts to adopt the automated testing framework across the payments org by presenting on it, writing guides, and providing support for developers working on the same. • Fixed production bugs that were causing incidents. • Implemented line transfer relationships API for use by downstream Liquidity Management Systems. • Upgrading on-prem RHEL6 hosts to RHEL7 • Led Payments Autosys upgrade
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Software Engineer II

Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
2 yrs 1 mo
Nairobi, Kenya
• Indexing and serving Viva topics suggestions in Outlook web reducing the p95 query formulation latency from 3 seconds to < 100ms. • Implemented M365 tenant index replication, saving $2,000,000 in annual server costs. • Near real-time synchronization of M365 Contacts, Calendars, Teams Chats, and Teams Channels to Cortana, resulting in more contextual speech experiences. • Integrated App commands into search enabling the user to perform actions such as turning on dark mode from the search box in Outlook Mobile. • Enhanced the Microsoft search performance testing environment by implementing a way to route a proportion of traffic to that environment for performance validation. • Designed experiments for each of the features and new entities I introduced to search, measuring user metrics like coverage and session success as well performance metrics like latency. • Contributed to open-source Clean Architecture solution, making it work on Mac and Docker -https://github.com/ardalis/CleanArchitecture • Fixed bugs in the core indexing library used for enterprise search. • Participated in Microsoft ADC community events and programs: LEAP for senior engineers and Game of Learners (GoL clinics) for early-stage engineers. • Conducted technical interviews for engineers joining various teams in Microsoft ADC. • On-call engineer responsible for the system health of the tenant shard. The tenant shard powers org-wide search queries for finding people in M365.
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Lead Engineer

Jun 2019 - Aug 2020
1 yr 3 mos
Nairobi, Kenya
• Developed a highly motivated team by clearly communicating end-user impact value in all projects and recognizing individual engineer contributions. • Mentored engineers across the team by conducting reviews, sharing resources, and promoting project ownership. • Participated in the recruitment of top-notch talent for various roles in engineering teams informed by current business needs and engineering capacity. • Worked with Freight and Enterprise business unit leadership to define business needs and design solutions. Consequently, we opened new markets and grew existing accounts. • Managed tracking hardware suppliers, service providers, and software platform vendors.
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Software Engineer

Sendy LTD
Full-time
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
2 yrs 0 mos
Nairobi, Kenya
• Redesigned the dispatch application as a reactive microservice using Akka. • Indexing and serving orders using Solr. • Pioneering leadership, led the first cross-functional product development team, working with mobile, backend, and web software engineers, a UI/UX designer, and a product manager. • Worked with various stakeholders to assess product readiness for the Uganda market as Sendy prepared to set up in Uganda. • Coordinated the technical preparation for Sendy Uganda expansion. This involved product testing, bug fixes, and deployment to go live in Uganda. • Led the implementation of multi-currency support for Sendy as we scaled to new markets. • Pioneering technologies, and experimented with TimescaleDB (a time-series database) for collecting, storing, and analyzing events within the system for purposes of Demand and Supply gap prediction. • Implemented the tracker server, a TCP server responsible for translating multiple tracker protocols from different vendors into a unified format used by all tracking devices at Sendy.
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Intern

Sendy LTD
Full-time
May 2014 - Sep 2018
4 yrs 5 mos
Nairobi, Kenya
• Demonstrated great initiative in learning the various technologies used at Sendy and getting involved with all teams, engineering, customer experience, and operations. • Full stack knowledge and experience having worked on the web frontend, APIs, and backend of the Sendy system. • Pioneering technologies and best practices such as docker, Kubernetes, Go, test driven development. • Tracker installation and management, resulting in increased visibility on the Sendy Platform.
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Intern

MTL Systems
Internship
Jun 2013 - May 2014
1 yr 0 mos
Nairobi, Kenya
- System testing and documentation - Learnt web development in PHP and Javascript

Education

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Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
BSc. Telecommunication and Information Engineering
2013 - 2018
Description
Worked on a Neural network approach to adaptive beamforming for millimeter-wave systems for my final year project. Used the ML model for time-series prediction of vehicle motion along a road segment and a beamforming algorithm for adjusting the antenna beam to match the predicted vehicle motion.