Harrison Favour

Software Engineer

Hello ______________,

I am a Software Engineer with expertise in building secure and scalable enterprise systems. With over 7 years of experience as a developer, I have worked with various languages during this period including; PHP, Java, C# and in recent times specializing on JavaScript and Golang. I've worked in very diverse teams of different sizes during the course of my career.

I enjoy building products that people love and derive a lot of fun working on open source tools. You might consider me a Full-Stack Engineer and in truth I am able to work on the frontend (I can't design though), or backend, or on some random utility library, even Desktop applications (if they still make those). I've very recently been doing DevOps "things" and I find that quite enjoyable. You'd find me writing on Medium sometimes and here's a link if you are interested.

I absolutely love playing FIFA, you can reach out to setup a match!

P.S: Ugh! At any point in time, my experiences on my website might be outdated. Check my LinkedIn profile if that's what you're interested in.

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Bitfinex Inc.
Mar 2021 – Present

Work primarily on the backend to build the KYC platform following compliance regulations.

Collaborate with team to plan and architect structure of database models, APIs, code, etc of the new KYC project.

Work with team to ensure coverage of FATF rule by integrating with relevant service providers.

Improve documentation of backend KYC project to make onboarding easier for new teammates.

Improve backend testing framework by implementing parallel tests, thereby shortening run time by 75%.
Software Engineer

Gitstart Inc.
Oct 2020 – April 2021

Worked with a team on various client and internal projects including an insurance management solution, etc.

Reverse engineer client project to locate bottlenecks and improve on current solution for better run times.

Help team members with onboarding on client projects.
Founder

Hexcord
Aug 2020 – Present

Architect individual services including a media server and web APIs.

Build service with scalability and security in mind using concepts such as rate-limiting to prevent DDOS attacks, etc. Deploying service images with Google App Engine and Linux VMs.

Work with UI designer to implement front-end interface while maintaining proper aesthetic design and accessibility.
Lead Software Engineer

Tenece Professional Services
Mar 2019 – Sep 2020

Worked with a team to deliver a highly scalable and configurable multi-tenant solution for the company's school manager service. This product (Dynamo) was developed to enable simple setup of very similar-looking applications and to enable code reuse and customizations through configurations by the clients.

Dynamo directly improved the company's school manager offering and is, in fact, being used by about 5 schools being serviced by the company with around 20,000 students across. Collaborated to work on the back-end of various internal products being used by the company including functional libraries being used by the development team.

Led the automation of DevOps practices in the company through the introduction of CI/ CD, proper code versioning, etc which reduced development time and infrastructure downtime. Mentored various members of the team and frequently held pair programming sessions with the team.
Software Engineer

Tenece Professional Services
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019

Worked on upgrading the school manager service offered by the company through the development of the Dynamo framework.

Worked on implementing school manager features using the Dynamo framework.

Built various internal products including Voucher processing system.

Understudy the company’s School Manager service offering.
Training Facilitator

Genesys Tech Hub
Feb 2018 – Sep 2020

Tutor beginner-level Software Developers (about 100 developers right now) and scale them into intermediate positions.

Mentor budding Software Developers and provide guidance in their Software Development Journey.
Training Facilitator

Tribesquare
Dec 2018 - July 2019

Curated course content for NodeJS, Laravel track for tutoring program.

Tutored and mentored beginner level Software Developers.
Software Developer Intern

TeamApt Limited
May 2016 – Oct 2016

Introduced to enterprise application development and collaborated with other developers to build Fintech software solutions for client banks.

Built features for the company's merchant processing system to enable the onboarding of new merchants and the registration of their services.

Build fluent APIs using Spring Boot framework, spring-data-jpa and MySQL.

Technical Skills

I started out I believe, with PHP sometime when I was in the university. I wrote a bit of procedural PHP and then delved into Object-oriented programming with Java after that. I explored C++ and JavaScript also while I was in school. Internship in 2016 helped me become better at writing Java and I also got introduced to Spring Boot and AngularJS as those were the frameworks of choice at the company. It was also a time of intense exploration as I worked my way around so many programming languages including Python, R, Scala, Kotlin, C, Ruby, etc. I think that helped me with my understanding of programming languages. I did a bit of C# and ASP.NET MVC at some point as well. Since then I have specialized in JavaScript and Golang.

Languages

JavaScript | Golang | Java

Backend

NodeJS | SpringBoot | Echo

Frontend

React | HTML | CSS | Vanilla JavaScript

DevOps

Databases/ Data store

MongoDB | SQL | Firestore (Datastore) | Redis

Cloud Technologies

Message Brokers

RabbitMQ | Cloud Pub/Sub

Portfolio

Hey, what have I done during my time as a Software Developer? Well here you find out.

Dynamo

A framework for building diverse Management Information Systems. It was built with primarily with JavaScript.

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Multi-tenant School Management Portal

This was built using the Dynamo framework and currently has about 5 schools using the system currently.

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Hexcord

Have you ever wanted to quickly create video content without going through the hassle of installing one software after the other and learning how to use those specific softwares? Hexcord is being built as a simple to use tool for creating presentations and tutorial videos and basically just recording anything that is on your computer screen including your face if you want that.

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React Native Kin SDK

Hey, I'm open source! This is a library for interacting with the Kinecosystem using React Native. It was built with Java.

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Voucher Processing System

Mostly an internal tool for organizations to create vouchers and scale up the approval chain for the voucher to be processed.

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Cryosleep

This is used by people seeking an easy way to manage their Bitcoin addresses and make transactions directly from within the application.

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Document Management System

It helps you manage your uploaded documents and tries to accurately classify the documents using the K Nearest Neighbour machine learning algorithm.

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Skaffold

This is an open source library for scaffolding e-commerce applications.

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Hexcord Media Server

This is an open source library for quickly deploying a full fledged media server that can stream WebRTC to either MKV format or RTMP.

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