Building

Consolidated efforts in my building journey

My mantra - invoke the builder within and serve

I broadly categorise what I do into: Building and Serving.
Discover additional information about Building below 👇, and Serving here.

Skills and Competencies

I'm well versed in the Agile-Scrum framework
Worked remotely for 8+ years

• Software Engineering
• Technical Team Leadership
• DevOps and Productivity Engineering
• Product Management
• Product Documentation and Technical Writing

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Software Engineering

As a software engineer, I'm in the business of solving problems with tools (Programming languages, devices, and other technologies)

My engineering philosophy leans on Coding is like plastic; there's already much of it in the world meaning that:

• I seek out non-technical solutions in addition to technical ones
• I strive to reuse and repurpose code, not reinvent the wheel
• I empower others by creating tools, templates and workflows for productivity

Languages I chiefly write in

Retired (but write periodically)

Technical Team Leadership and People Management

Beyond serving as a Senior Engineer, I have chosen to accept people management roles as a technical team lead in some teams:

• Tushiyah Ministry Tech Team (2022-Present)
• Belwethr (2019)

and for a number of my mentees: (Discussing and planning upskilling efforts and career changes)

Tools and Resources

I implore that self-mastery and self development is important. Some tools I use are:

• The 6 types of Working geniuses analysis. Here's my write up on the model.
• Personality traits: Lion, Otter, GR, Beaver

For career development and upskilling, I create personalised skills matrices per individual (factoring in skills-gap, role, and aspiration). To get the idea consider these:

• Public Skills Matrix templates

DevOps and Productivity Engineering

• Creating CI/CD pipelines
  • Deploying to various cloud providers
• Improving developer workflow
  Leveraging tools and cutting local and CI/CD build time for productivity

Related tools

Product Management

As mentioned earlier in Skills and Competencies, I'm well versed in the Agile - Scrum framework; both as a participant and a lead.

I organise the four key scrum ceremonies:

• Sprint planning
• Stand-up
• Sprint review
• Sprint retrospective (Retro)

Break down work into stories and epics, organise them into sprints, collaborate with stakeholders and chart product roadmaps.

I have served in this capacity in organizations, and personal and family projects:

• Tushiyah Ministry Tech Team (2022-Present)
• Andela (2018)

Tools and Reference

Here's a guide to scrum by Atlassian.

Since specific tools are opinionated and thereby affect how we do things, I've considered:

• The Shortcut way by Shortcut
• The Linear method by Linear. I'm still testing out Linear as an alternative to my workflow.

Product Documentation and Technical Writing

• I employ the Doc-as-code approach
• I champion Diátaxis framework of technical documentation
  This is a systematic framework for technical documentation authoring.
  Diátaxis identifies four modes of documentation - tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. It derives its structure from the relationship between them.

Tools

Passion projects

• DIY (Do It Yourself) projects
  • Carpentry - Here are some photos of my mini-projects.
• Motor vehicle tinkering and upgrading - Here are some photos of a 1998 Honda CRV.