Yosua K

IT Project Technical Leader & Head of Research and Development

Oct 2021 - Jun 2023 • 1 yr 8 mos

• Directed company’s IT research initiative on microservices best practices, enabling engineering teams to focus on deliverables and reducing trial and error cycles by 30%. • Standardized company’s Node.JS API architecture implementation by creating project initialization boilerplates, reducing setup time by 1 week and eliminating repetitive boilerplate coding. • Conducted code reviews and led technical planning across multiple concurrent projects, while remaining hands-on with development tasks to ensure technical quality and team accountability. • Conducted mentoring initiatives for interns and junior engineers, developing standardized curriculum and assessments aligned with company requirements in mobile (React Native), full- stack development (Laravel), web frontend (React.JS), and backend development (Node.JS, NestJS, Laravel, and Java Spring Boot), accelerating average readiness to 1 month. • Standardized company coding assessments by designing test cases and evaluation criteria, introducing a quantitative scorecard based on qualitative code analysis (cleanliness, structure, efficiency), enabling the hiring team to make consistent, data-driven decisions.

Backend Developer

Feb 2020 - Oct 2021 • 1 yr 8 mos

• Delivered backend microservices for client projects using Node.JS (TypeScript), Laravel, and Java Spring Boot. • Introduced Node.JS with TypeScript into the company’s tech stack, training engineers and establishing technical standards; by 2022, 90% of new projects adopted Node.JS, streamlining hiring by leveraging the trend of increasing Node.JS popularity. • Developed a Laravel-based worker application to automate Clockify API integration and excel reporting, increasing finance team’s data recap speed by 70% and improving reporting accuracy.