Skill set
Giles in a few words
Hi there. I'm Giles, a talented, hardworking, and passionate front-end engineer who has been exercising for more than five years. Thought my carrier, I have been working on apps that impacted more than 500k people around the world, shaping their experiences and constantly evolving via user feedback. All these made me a product-driven engineer which I think can be of good value to any product or team.
Experience
- Cover FinancialSenior Software EngineerDIGITAL & ITMay 2022 - August 2022 (3 months)San Francisco, United StatesCover financial is an online insurance company. I was hired primarily to replace the android Developer leaving the team.Below is the list of accomplishments I'm particularly happy of:- Kept the android app running for 500k users after the departure of the former android developer. This put to test my strong debugging, extensive engineering skills, and my abilities to adapt to different environments.- Ensure smooth mobile application technology transitioning while serving the iOS and Android app via React-Native and while progressively migrating functionalities to react-native.- Speed up development by automating deployment and testing of the applications using Bitrise and Fastlane. Also, I contributed to the maintenance and creation of privately hosted NPM modules.
- DetectSenior Software Engineer.E-COMMERCENovember 2021 - July 2022 (8 months)Guilford, United StatesDetect is a medical company that entered the market at the end of 2020, and has been doing great so far. Detect focussed on the sale of Covid-19 test kits and now is trying to expand its market by producing kits that can detect many other diseases. Detect has two main parts: The Eccommerces website and the React Native mobile application.Below are the Items that I'm proud of working on:- Increasing the population reach of the e-commerce website by tech-spec and implementing site translation to Spanish using react-intl in NextJS. This was particularly tedious because we were loading markdown text from Shopify using GraphQL.- Increased the maintainability of the e-commerce site by migrating the content of Shopify to the appropriate cost-effective CMS tool.- Keeping the mobile application up-to-date by upgrading our react-native SDK version after 2~3 version shifts.- Being a great team player by pixel perfectly realizing designs implemented using Figma while following accessibility best practices and communicating with the rest of the team, making sure the expectations are mad.- Speeding up development and Increasing development experience by automating testing, and deployment.- Ensured great code quality and stability by writing end-to-end tests and screenshot testing, adding strong linting rules, and using Typescript.
- LinkinnovSenior Front-end developerEDUCATION & E-LEARNINGAugust 2021 - November 2021 (3 months)Paris, FranceContracted as a consultant to speed up the development of the research platform and provide expertise in front-end development.Below is a list of accomplishments I'm proud of:- Acted as a great team player by pixel perfectly implementing hot designs from Adobe XD in the required timeline while constantly communicating with the rest of the team to ensure we are on track.- Big code refactoring through the introduction of hooks and customer hooks for tasks that were recurrent.- UX improvement while considerably reducing the loading of the application through code-splitting strategies using React.lazy + React.Suspense and Webpack settings.- Implemented data-intensive pages without trading off performance.
1 recommendation
CM
Cornelius Mbouopda recommend Giles
25/01/2023
Giles is an awesome individual who always thrive for industry best practices and client satisfaction while considering him as a code artist. As a leader he has always been thoughtful on clients’ date lines and expectations and making clients happy.
Education
- Beng Telecommunications Engineering.University of Buea2020