FRANCIS KWEKU NARTEY
Asafo Atswe St., Accra | - |-| LinkedIn Profile
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I am a hands-on astute Software Engineer with almost 6 years of experience in
designing, programming, and testing software across a variety of platforms. I have
worked on numerous projects from concept to completion. A specialist in Ruby, Python
and Node. I take pride in coding to consistently high standards and regularly refresh
my skills to ensure I keep up with ongoing developments and emerging technologies.
KEY SKILLS
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Ruby on Rails
Python
Node
JavaScript/HTML/CSS
PostgreSQL/MySQL/NoSQL
VCS (Git, GitHub & GitLab, Bitbucket)
• Data Science
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent team building
• RESTful APIs
✓ Architecture Components & Patterns
EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer and Integration Officer (Team Lead)
appsNmobile Solutions Ltd | Accra, Greater Accra
(June 2016 – Present)
Payment Gateway provider and software development firm in Ghana
✓ Drafted software requirements and designed databases schema and
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implementation.
Managed software throughout SDLC and collaborated with team members to
address issues.
Resolved errors through close collaboration with the quality assurance team.
Maintained software performance with regular updates.
Closed security loopholes by debugging and patching software.
Supervised and tutored junior programmers including task delegation.
Adapted existing software to new purposes, improving performance and
including new functionality.
Produced clean, error-free code to meet aggressive timeline.
✓ Built web applications API’s and USSD’s.
✓ Analyzed and built a model with location data of schools in Manchester to
recommend neighborhoods, preschool category, and site areas that will need
developments.
Teacher
Accra, Greater Accra
(Sept. 2010 – Sept. 2012)
High School
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learning objectives and in adherence to standard requirements.
Collected and analyzed student work samples and related data to monitor
progress and identify skill gaps.
Conducted standardized assessments to evaluate student progress and assess
the effectiveness of subject materials.
Documented student progress and attendance records according to required
standards.
Communicated with parents and caregivers to report on student progress,
potential challenges and ways to foster engagement and academic success.
EDUCATION
University of Ghana, Legon
BSc. Computer Science and Mathematics | (Sept. 2012 – May 2016)
St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Cantonments
General Science | (Sept. 2006 – May 2009)
PROJECTS
(As Software Engineer)
Virtual POS System
This application serves as a Virtual Point of Sale where clients or companies are
registered on the platform and services such as donations, sales, shows, fee
payment, church dues, and many more are served to their customers. It helped
a great deal during the Covid season and still does.
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Agri Pay Farm System
This is a platform where Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) are registered on
the platform including Purchasers and Farmers/Beneficiaries in order to trade
digitally without having to deal with physical monies. It handled theft and
established accountability due to the approval processes involved.
Recruitment System
A recruitment System for disabled people that registers applicants and take their
bio-data, educational data, job type, etc. In order to recruit them per opened
vacancies.
Validator Transport System
A transportation portal and USSD application that allows passengers to top up
their transport card bearing a unique code. They do not need physical money on
them to board the bus.
MMT Transport System
A similar thing for Aayalolo was built for MMT.
Payment or Checkout Interface
This is an integrated interface for payments via mobile money, Visa,
MasterCard, and the likes.
Many external applications of other clients integrated with this payment platform
to allow their customers to make payments.
It functioned like checkout interfaces such as Stripe.
Twitter List Portal
Binance Trading Bot
Tailors Keep API
(As Team Lead)
HD-plus Mgmt. System
Bulk Disbursement System
Bulk SMS System
Financial Payment Portal
BillPay Portal
ETicket Portal
eCommerce Mgmt. Portal
Church Mgmt. Portal
USSD Portal
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LANGUAGES
✓ English
✓ Ga and Twi
CERTIFICATES
✓ IBM Data Science Professional Certificate (IBM)
✓ Applied Data Science Module (WorldQuant University)
INTERESTS
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Artificial Intelligence
Data Science
Cloud Computing
Extended Realities
REFERENCE
Available on request
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