Kaliisa Thatcher
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Experience
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Development Initiatives
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United Kingdom
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International Trade and Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Feb 2021 - Present
• Led 2 projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing vague problems, proposing high impact solutions, and executing them against sets of success criteria. • Increased user engagement by 10% through an enhanced user experience on the DI website by replacing static images with interactive dynamic maps resulting in improved data visualization. • Collaborated with peers remotely during product brainstorms, technical design discussions, pair programming sessions and code reviews. • Designed comprehensive tests(unit and end to end), ensuring seamless and high-quality execution of our software products resulting in increased product stability. • Successfully mentored intern software engineers into highly productive team members through regular pairing sessions and code reviews. •Proactively ensured compliance with accessibility standards by conducting comprehensive analyses of our software products using accessibility analysis tools, and effectively implementing changes. Show less
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Proxpert Legal
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Uganda
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Legal Services
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Software Engineer
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May 2020 - Jan 2021
Proxpert Legal is a web platform that eases access to legal assistance by providing a portal for users to interact with legal professionals. • Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for creating organised project plans. • Designed and built responsive and intuitive user interfaces using knowledge of HTML/ CSS / Javascript and database design. Proxpert Legal is a web platform that eases access to legal assistance by providing a portal for users to interact with legal professionals. • Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for creating organised project plans. • Designed and built responsive and intuitive user interfaces using knowledge of HTML/ CSS / Javascript and database design.
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BRASM
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Belgium
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Investment Banking
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Software Engineer
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Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
BRASM is a project that carries Biometric Registration of Artisanal and Small Scale Miners under the Ministry of Energy Uganda. • Worked closely with software development team members to design and develop robust data collection, storage and retrieval solutions to meet customer requirements for functionality, scalability and performance. • Wrote highly maintainable, solid code in Javascript and Python for the frontend and backend REST APIs. • Set up testing infrastructure and implemented a continuous integration pipeline. Show less
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Education
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Makerere Universiry
Bachelor's degree, Electrical engineering -
Nabisunsa girl's school
Physics,Chemistry,Math and German -
Trinity College Nabbingo
I studied both arts and sciences