Well, my name is Walter Kaunda if you don’t already know. A social scientist by education (unfortunately) and a computer programmer by choice. I mostly program as a hobby, programming is an end in itself for me. Although, getting paid to do it is kind of nice, I definitely prefer that over kumangolubwalubwa at home ndekha.
Professional Work Experience
Following is a high level overview of where I have worked and what tools I was using. If you need details on what exactly I was doing you can always ask for my C.V.
2017 - Software Developer at Credit Data (Blanyre, Malawi)
- Primarily Web backend development
- Credit Referencing Applications Development
- Python, Java, PHP, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Elasticsearch
2018/19 - Software Developer at Baobab Health Trust (Lilongwe, Malawi)
- Web backend development
- Health Information Systems Development
- Ruby, MySQL, Postgres, CouchDB
2020/21 - Software Developer at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (Lilongwe, Malawi)
- Web backend development
- Health Informations Systems Development
- Ruby, Python, MySQL, CouchDB
2021/now Data Engineer at One Acre Fund (Kigali, Rwanda)
- A tragic accident!
- ETL Pipelines development
- Dataiku, SSIS, SQL Server, Python, Elasticsearch, Logstash
Personal projects
Please see my github and gitlab profiles.
Interests
If you want to have a decent conversation with me then try and stick to these topics:
- Programming languages
- (Backend) Software Architecture
- GNU/Linux + Unix
- Free Software
- Classic Video Game Consoles (+ emulation)
- Metal (Mostly metalcore/deathcore)
- Television (Forged in Fire, Ancient Aliens - other Paranormal/Science documentaries)