Karen Okonkwo

Tech Stack

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

PRESENT & PREVIOUS JOBS

August 2021 - Present

Bloomberg L.P.

Currently building and maintaining the BloombergNEF web platform that delivers critical data, analysis, and insights for energy, transportation, and industrial sectors. I leverage a versatile tech stack including NextJS, PHP, Kafka, Postgres, and Comdb2 to build, optimize, and maintain both frontend and backend systems, enabling real-time data streaming, secure data handling, and an enhanced user experience for finance and policy professionals globally.
Built out full-stack tools/solutions within the Bloomberg Terminal to ensure that the most valuable content is being written and promoted by Bloomberg's 3000+ editorial staff worldwide to 300,000+ Bloomberg Terminal subscribers at all times using Python, Typescript, Kafka and Comdb2.
Built solutions to privilege large datasets curated by Bloomberg's data journalists using Python and React.
Leading feature and project executions, managing client and stakeholder communications to ensure alignment with product goals and timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
As scrum leader, orchestrated efficient sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, fostering a cohesive and agile team environment.
Driving industry diversity initiatives by mentoring emerging talent, conducting technical workshops, running candidate interviews and leading outreach and recruitment to support a more inclusive tech environment.

2018 - Present

Freelancer (Contract Roles)

Providing services that span from front-end development to full-stack application development. This involves handling the translation of various designs and wireframes into high-quality code for the front-end, architecting and developing fully functional, accessible, and responsive web applications using various tools and technologies for multiple clients.

May 2020 - July 2021

Softcom Africa

Built out the web application for the 3rd version of Eyowo (Eyowo X) using React and Typescript. Eyowo is a fintech product which provides online personal/business banking and other financial services to 600,000+ users in Nigeria.
Built out the non-graduates (N-creative) web portal for the NPower programme - a job creation and skills empowerment scheme created by the Nigerian Government - for over 1 million applicants using React and Typescript.
Collaborated with other teams/disciplines including backend developers, product managers, designers, UI developers and QA testers to deliver value with each product.`

June 2018 - Dec 2018

GRIT Systems Engineering Ltd.

Worked with the software team to build software to support the company's hardware products.
Designed, developed and maintained the front-end application for the company's project using ReactJS, TypeScript and Material UI.
Developed web services for user and order management using Flask.

Aug 2018 - Sept 2018

Eko Konnect Research and Education Initiative

Worked primarily with Linux (UBUNTU) as an operating system, learning about and unlocking its benefits and applications in everyday development.

ACADEMIC CAREER

Udacity, Inc.

May 2020 - Sept 2020

This nanodegree course extensively taught various technical skills needed to build database-backed APIs and web applications including:

Find the full syllabus here.

Udacity, Inc.

May 2018 - Nov 2018

This course taught comprehensively various technical skills important in frontend web development.

Completed several projects encompassing the knowledge of:

University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Nov 2015 - Jan 2020

Graduated with first class honors.

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