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Folau Kaveinga

Software Engineer

  • Employment Status : currently Employeed
  • Employer : Sidecar Health
  • Open for new work : Not at the moment
  • Coding Site : lovemesomecoding.com

About me

PROFESSIONAL PATH

Hi! My name is Folau and I love building Software, websites, and APIs that solve our day to day problems. I have developed exceptional web applications that either fixed problems my customers had or facilitate employees lives with an organization. Check out my skills, portfolio and interests!

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Databases(Data Store)

MySQL, Postgres, Amazon Aurora, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Firestore, Snowflake

GraphQL

Frameworks

Spring(Java backend) - Spring Boot, Spring Data(JPA), Spring Security, Spring Rest, Testing, etc

Flask(Python backend) - Rest API

FastApi(Python backend) - Rest API

Laravel(PHP backend) - Rest API

React(Javascript frontend) - Typescript, Routes, Components, etc

Angular(Javascript frontend) - Typescript, Routes, Components, etc

jQuery(Javascript frontend) - DOM Manipulation, Effects and Animations, Event Handling, etc

Wordpress(PHP backend)

Cloud

AWS - EC2, ECS, ECR, Route53, Lambda, Codepipeline, CodeCommit, SQS, SNS, SES, VPC, RDS, Secrets Manager, DynamoDB, etc

Google Firebase - Authentication, Database, Storage, etc

Tools

CI/CD Pipelines - Github Actions -> AWS ecr -> AWS ecs - Github Actions -> AWS lambda - AWS codebuild -> AWS ecr -> AWS ecs

Git - Github, Bitbucket, CodeCommit

Build Tools - Maven

Operating System - Unix, Linux, and Windows

IDE - Visual Studio Code, PyCharm, Intellij, Eclipse, etc

API Documentation - Swagger, Postman

Project Management - Jira, Trello, Miro

Diagramming Software - Lucid, Draw.io, Miro

Testing Tools - Postman, jMeter, Selenium, Mockito, Rest-Assured

Others

API - Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, Maintenanace, etc

Third Party API - Stripe, Authorize.net, Plaid, Marqeta, AWS, Lob, etc

Fullstack Application - Frontend, Backend, Deployment, Maintenance, etc

Website(Static) - Design, Create, Host, Maintain

Wordpress - Design, Create, Host, Maintain

HTML Emails - Design, Create, Maintain

Portfolio

MY WORK
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Work Experience

JOBS

Senior Software Engineer

Sidecar Health
MARCH 2018 - PRESENT

1. As a founding engineer, I handle day-to-day tasks of managing the Aws Cloud infrastructure as well as developing the micro service architecture for our software applications.

2. As an Engineer, I am responsible for designing, architecting, and developing backend APIs for our mobile application as well as our web application. I own the applications and services on our backend system and work with other engineers to solve business and technical problems.


Full Job Description

Development tools, stack, and APIs
  • Java
  • Spring/Spring Boot
  • JPA, Spring Data, SQL
  • AWS (Codepipeline, CodeCommit, Ec2, S3, SQS, SNS, SES, Route 53, Cloud Formation, ECS, Lambdas etc)
  • CI/CD Pipeline
  • Elasticsearch
  • Javascript, React, HTML, CSS
  • MySQL
  • Redis

Software Developer

Columbus Technologies and Services
June 2014 - Febuary 2018

1. Write high quality, consistent, clean, and maintainable code on highly scalable platforms such as AWS.

2. Develop high performance and usability software with software development lifecycle fully implemented.

3. Collaborate with development team on new challenges and create strategies to improve business model.

4. Work in team environment to ensure completeness of projects and meet deadlines.

5. Translate project requirements to development activities.

6. Software developed: resume system, recruiting system, and local intranet system.


Development tools, stack, and APIs
  • Java Spring Framework 4, SpringBoot
  • Hibernate 4, JPA
  • MySQL, DYNAMODB
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • GITHUB
  • Stripe API
  • AngularJS
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • HTML Email

Reason for leaving: I wanted to solve different problems and work with more technologies.

Software Engineer

Dealer Socket
January 2014 - June 2014

1. Modify and clean up existing code to implement design patterns for best practices.

2. Develop platforms and templates to be used as libraries and standards.

3. Debug and Test code for dev and production environment.


Reason for leaving: I moved to Los Angeles and the 4 hour commute became unbearable.

Software Developer

BYU Hawaii
January 2012 - December 2013

1. Develop software to facilitate students academic needs such as dynamic web sites for taking class test and quiz.

2. Develop software to convert BrainHoney to Canvas and help IT group make their life easier.

3. Develop Dynamic web sites to help departments with in the organization accomplish their goals.


Development tools, stack, and APIs
  • Java and JSP
  • Spring Framework
  • Hibernate
  • PHP
  • MySQL and SQL
  • HTML
  • Javascript
  • CSS

Reason for leaving: I finished school and moved back home to California.

Education

ACADEMIC CAREER

BACHELOR DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

BYU HAWAII - SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING(2011-2013)
GRADUATED IN DECEMBER 2013(2 YEARS)

COURSES ON COMPUTER SCIENCE

CAMINO COLLEGE(2009-2011)
TRANSFERRED IN DECEMBER 2011(2 YEARS)