I was the lead web and mobile developer at PlayPal for 8 months in 2024. I worked at PlayPal with PHP Laravel, ReactJS and ReactJS Native. I added translation support for English and Spanish across the website and mobile app. I achieved the Recognition Award from the UK government Cabinet Office in April 2019 using Bash, PHP, Java and JavaScript. I was in the team at Mission Labs (2019 - 2020) that made the JD Sports mobile app using ReactJS Native. At Mission Labs I had ownership of the warehouse delivery management CRM software, made with AWS, NodeJS and ReactJS. See my website for more at https://www.kelvinkamara.com .

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Born & raised in south east London, I have excellent IT skills. I am a great time keeper with outstanding organisational skills. I am also always willing to learn new skills. I am friendly, helpful and polite, with a good sense of humour. I am able to work both independently and in busy teams.

I am outgoing, tactful and capable of listening effectively when solving problems.

Most importantly - I am dedicated and committed to performing to the best ability.

I am a person who strives to complete personal and team goals.

I have over 10 years programming experience working with Unix systems to a high level. I have enjoyed working with both monolithic and microservice applications.

I am a firm believer in using the right tool for the job. Specializing in backend server development I was fortunate to achieve the Recognition Award in April 2019 from the UK government Cabinet Office for my work with secure web systems, using Bash, PHP, Java and JavaScript. You can find out more about the award on my website at https://www.kelvinkamara.com .

I was a software engineer at Mission Labs (2019 - 2020) in the team that made the JD Sports mobile app with ReactJS Native, and the warehouse delivery management software for which I had project ownership with AWS, ReactJS and NodeJS.

I created, managed and deployed the website and mobile app for PlayPal in 2024 with ReactJS Native, and the website with PHP Laravel and ReactJS. At PlayPal the website and mobile app needed to have the same look and feel as the PlayPal logo. I was responsible for design, delivery and deployment of these platforms. The website and mobile app for PlayPal had translation support for English and Spanish.

I worked as a contractor lead web developer at VacancySoft for 23 months (April 2022 - February 2024) where I created systems in Python Django and PHP Laravel that would scrape millions of websites in routines, gathering data as VacancySoft is a publishing data company.

At Job Sender in 2020, I was responsible for the entire IT side of things for its job-posting platform. I oversaw and contributed towards the complete technical operations for the company including but not limited to managing programming, IT infrastructure, task management, development and product technical direction. I learned and used the pre-existing FuelPHP-framework app to add a job board and to create an API for third parties to access system operations like job posting.

www.kelvinkamara.com

• https://github.com/kkamara/premium-artist-cms-template

• www.npmjs.com/package/github-to-bitbucket-backup-repo-updater

I am working with Visual Studio Code.

• Use TAB key to trigger emmet snippets in Vim (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34822074/vim-key-mapping-for-emmet-vim)
• Eclipse (Windows, macOs, Ubuntu Linux) (The Leading Open Platform for Professional Developers)
• Notepad++ (Windows)
• TextMate (macOs)
• Sublime Text (Windows, macOs, Ubuntu Linux) (written in C++, Python)
• vscode-install-extensions.sh
• vscode-settings.json.

• PHPTheRightWay
• Production Best Practices: Security
• Forms, File Uploads and Security with Node.js and Express
• The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP)
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial.

• https://phptherightway.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeeBXWbQvJE
• https://github.com/kkamara/playground/tree/main/py
• https://github.com/kkamara/playground/tree/main/php
• https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/go/fibonacci/main.go
• https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/go/projectsearcher/main.go
• https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/go/wait-groups/main.go
• https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/javascript/descending-order/test.spec.js
• https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/javascript/template-literal/test.spec.js
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/popover

• https://gist.github.com/kkamara

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself

• https://www.flamingo.me/flamingo-commerce.html#Home

npx npkill

npkill

npx gitignore

gitignore

$( pnpm bin )/react-scripts

pnpm bin npm bin

npm cache clean --force

npm cache

ctrl + r # reverse search in the terminal

# command-line history & quick cmd select
hstr
hstr clone

hstr

ps aux | grep -e Google

sudo kill -9 `pgrep oogle`

netstat -ltpn

• Github
• Bitbucket

Height: 6 foot 4 inches.

Favourite football team: Arsenal.

Free Text To Speech Reader Online. I use that to listen to articles, books and tutorials.

YouTube Video and Audio Downloader Online.

Binaural Beats Explained (see description for 5 different wave types).

What is bilateral music?

Favourite music: The Kelvin Kamara sound app.

Favourite photo: Node.js CRM 5.png

Nationality: I have a UK passport.

I was born and raised in Lewisham, south east London. I am from Lagos, Nigeria on my father's side. I am also from Sierra Leone. I have visited Lagos, Nigeria, twice.

I use f.lux to reduce eye strain. This software is available for Windows operating system.

I have an alarm every day at 8pm to stop coding and rest. I mostly adhere to this except for rare cases.