Dishon Weru Wangai
Nairobi
Summary
tionality: Kenyan
Current Location: Nairobi, Kenya.
Position applied for: System Integration Developer
Total years of experience: 12 Years
Relevant experience in banking IT projects: Over 5 years experience implementing integrations on core banking systems, payment switches and mobile banking platforms to external systems to support banking operations.
Self-driven Data Engineer professional with about 12 years of experience (7 years in data integration, data warehousing and ETL pipelines implementation/maintenance, and 5 years in banking and payment systems integration) including strong skills in Python, Java, C#, Data Modelling in DBT, AWS cloud and Apache SuperSet.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director, Data Engineering
Lendable Inc
01.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Lendable is a leading technology enabled investment & alternatives platform that focuses on global impact alternatives
- Spearheaded data ingestion/integration process updates and optimizations to ensure faster data ingestion turnaround time
- Key contributor in a team that designed and implemented a new PySpark based data platform, that saw the runtime of data pipelines reduce by up to 10 times compared to the legacy pandas-based pipelines
- Formulating and maintaining data quality KPIs that are easy for business teams to understand.
Data Integrations Engineer
Lendable Inc
01.2017 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: Lendable is a leading technology enabled investment & alternatives platform that focuses on global impact alternatives
- Led technical integrations (ETL Pipelines implementations), ensuring seamless data transfer from FinTech partners to Lendable's data warehouse, enabling analysis of over 28 million loan contracts and 490 million loan payments across multiple geographies
- Engage with client tech teams, understanding their data system nuances and native data models
- Monitor and maintain live data pipelines, ensuring optimal uptime and swift issue resolution
- Ensuring high data quality standards are maintained by performing rigorous data testing on new data versions
- Verified data from fintech partner systems against independent 3rd party sources to ascertain data legitimacy and mitigate fraud
- Lendable is a leading technology enabled investment & alternatives platform that focuses on global impact alternatives
I.C.T Programmer
Family Bank Limited
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Company Overview: Banking Services
- Mobile P.O.S application design and implementation(C/C++ Programming)
- Mobile P.O.S transaction switching for mag-stripe, I.C cards and contact-less cards
- External service systems integration to core banking solution
- Bio Metrics(Finger Print) authentication integration to core banking system
- Core banking system customization
- Banking Services
Alternative Channels Technical Support
Family Bank Limited
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Company Overview: Banking Services
- ATM switch operations and administration
- Mobile banking platform development and integration to core banking system
- External systems integration to mobile banking platform and core banking system
- Core banking application deployment, trouble shooting and support
- VISA certification processes
- ATM machine monitoring and troubleshooting
- POS configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting
- Debit card processing operation
- Banking Services
Operations Officer - Front Office Teller
Family Bank Limited
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Company Overview: Banking Services
- Performed front office teller operations at the branch including teller duties, floor management, accounts opening, ATM card and PIN issuance
- Banking Services
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Technology
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
01.2011
Skills
- AWS S3 storage solutions
- Proficient in AWS Batch
- Experience with AWS EMR deployments
- Experience with Redshift data warehousing
- Database administration on AWS RDS
- AWS Glue expertise
- AWS Athena proficiency
- AWS Lambda implementation
- Proficient in AWS EC2 services
- Experienced with data visualization in Apache Superset
- Experienced in Python programming
- Data manipulation with Pandas
- Skilled in Numpy data manipulation
- Skilled in data manipulation using Polars
- Data processing with PySpark
- Skilled in Apache Kafka implementation
- Continuous integration using CircleCI
- Experience with Airflow orchestration
- DBT model development experience
- Snowflake data management
Certification
- Systems Thinking, Ongoing course by MIT X-Pro
- Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking System Technical Architecture, Oracle Financial Services R&D Center - Bangalore, India
Languages
English
Technology Tools
- AWS S3
- AWS Batch
- AWS EMR
- RedShift
- AWS RDS
- AWS Glue
- AWS Athena
- AWS Lambda
- AWS EC2
- Apache SuperSet
- Python
- Pandas
- Numpy
- Polars
- PySpark
- Apache Kafka (Beginner)
- CircleCi
- AirFlow
Passions
- Motoring and Aviation Enthusiast
- Passionate about vehicles including restoring/fixing grounded ones, diagnosing issues, logging/visualizing sensor data (for fun and diagnosis) and driving long distances.
- Am also an aviation enthusiast and love reading/watching air accident investigation reports/documentaries.
Timeline
Associate Director, Data Engineering
Lendable Inc
01.2022 - Current
Data Integrations Engineer
Lendable Inc
01.2017 - 01.2022
I.C.T Programmer
Family Bank Limited
01.2015 - 01.2017
Alternative Channels Technical Support
Family Bank Limited
01.2013 - 01.2015
Operations Officer - Front Office Teller
Family Bank Limited
01.2012 - 01.2013
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Technology
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology