John Santos

ABOUT

Telecom VAS Engineer | Software Developer

I am John Santos and I love everything about Systems, Technology and Learning.

I'm a dedicated Telecom VAS (Value-Added Services) Engineer with a robust background in software development, I am proficient in a spectrum of technologies including Javascript Frameworks, PHP, and Python, and am fluent in English and French.

As a VAS Engineer I perform the integration of VAS platforms with existing telecom infrastructures, Global Support Services for telecom companies (especially Airtel Africa)

Do I sound like a good fit for your team? Get in touch with me : johnndiwayesusantos@gmail.com

Facts

Total projects worked on (including freelancing projects)

Web apps and softwares (collaboration)

Telecom products / tools or sofwares

Internet of Things (IoT) : Linking a web app to a hardware payment system

Skills

below the skills related to different programming languages, technologies, CMS and other platforms

VAS (VALUE ADDED SERVICES), GLOBAL SUPPORT SERVICES GCS
USSD, SMS, GSS
CISCO, MITEL, AVAYA
PUTTY, WIRESHARK, PRTG Network Monitor, DATABASE MANAGMENT TOOLS
MYSQL, ORACLE, MONGODB, WINDOWS SERVERS, LINUX., MS365, ETC.
JAVASCRIPT/TYPESCRIPT, PHP LARAVEL, REACT, VUE, NODEJS, PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
COMMUNICATION SKILLS, REMOTE WORK
ATTENTION TO DETAILS
FAST AND CONTINEOUS LEARNING
DEADLINE DRIVEN SKILLS

Resume

Sumary

John Ndiwayesu Santos

Bachelor in Electronics and Telecommunication technology at KIU Polytechnics, Kigali Independent University. different trainings in Web development, Telecommunication softwares, Networking, Routing protocols, Voice applications, Cloud technologies, etc. Experience working remotly with tech companies.

  • Kigali, Rwanda | Congo-Kinshasa, DRCongo
  • +243 975 134 801
  • johnndiwayesusantos@gmail.com

Education

Fullstack-Open Program

2022

Online Program

Fullstack Software Development Program, University of Helsinki

Bachelor : Electronics & Telecom

2017 - 2020

Kigali, Rwanda

Kigali Independent University | KIU Polytechnics

Industrial Technics

2010 - 2016

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

ITAM : Institut Technique Maranatha

Trainings

IBM : Artificial Intelligence Analyst Mastery Award - 2019

Kigali, Rwanda | KIU Polytechnics & IBM

SOLOLEAN : FULLSTACK WEB DEVELPMENT - 2018

Kigali, Rwanda | Online Training : Frontend and backend develpment with Python Django and Flask, Javascript(NodeJS, ReactJS)

Awards

Ministry of Industry : Winner of the Masterclass - Edition 2019

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo | Ministry of Industry

TVET Youth Challenge for Technology - Edition 2018

Kigali, Republic of Rwanda | TVET Youth Challange Competition

Languages

English

French

Swahili

Professional Experience

COMVIVA TECHNOLOGIES / India — VAS ENGINEER (Congo DRC)

December 2022 to Present

https://comviva.com

  • ✅ Telecom Value Added Services and Global Support Services for Airtel Africa (Airtel Congo CD)
  • ✅ USSD | SMS | Databases
  • ✅ Prevention checks and Telecom house-keeping activities

EVOLUDATA Montreal/Canada, — Fullstack developer VAS (Remote)

December 2022 to Present

https://evoludata.com | https://wikisuite.org

  • ✅ Effectively contributed to the release of Tiki25 (https://dev.tiki.org/Tiki25), the Greatest Tiki Release, applied minor and major UX improvments to make the project more user-friendly,
  • ✅ Contributed 50% to the development of a new tool called TikiThings that improved the trackers usage (Connecting IoT and Cloud technologies)
  • ✅ In addition to suggesting UX ideas that ended up becoming features, I also fixed several bugs and developed new feautures

Torre Labs / US, — Technical Support Engineer (Remote)

June 2022, December 2022

https://torre.co | www.master-chief.torre.co

  • ✅ I've worked as a front-line engineer to manage the bugs reports, bugs analysis and assignment, watching and maintening our services up. but also actively helped on problem solving activities as well as managing datastudio dashboards,
  • ✅ I've suggested ideas for better UX that turned to become chores and/or features.

Torre Labs / US, — Frontline Software developer (Remote)

Mar 2022 - Jun 2022

https://torre.co | www.master-chief.torre.co

  • ✅ Contributed to reach +32% Effectiveness on bugs fixing and new feature development
  • ✅ Worked on the UX features that makes the user application process quick with the reusability rules.

SillonBlue Technologies / Congo DR — Back Office Developer (hybrid)

Nov 2020 - November 2021

https://sillonblue.co | Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • ✅ Contributed to a government nationalwide project SecutifPro v1.4 [Land affaires ministry DRC]
  • ✅ Helped/Contributed to increase the company's global income from the project secutifPro
  • ✅ Leading the Beta release of sillonDMS Software (Document Archiving and workflow managment System)

SillonBlue Technologies / Congo DR — Software developer (hybrid)

May 2020 - November 2020

https://sillonblue.co | Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • ✅ Contributed to a government nationalwide project SecutifPro v1.4 [Land affaires ministry DRC]
  • ✅ Technical support activities, backups and software testing activities

SillonBlue Technologies / Congo DR — Software developer Intern (On site)

May 2020 - November 2020

https://sillonblue.co | Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • ✅ Software development apprentice, Learning sessions and tech discovery activities
  • ✅ Worked on sillonDMS, A Document managment software, designed for document archiving activities and workflow managment

Vodacom Congo SA, Goma MSC — Core Network Intern

January to May 2018

https://www.vodacom.cd | Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Internship at The Mobile Switching Center of Vodacom Congo
  • ✅ Telecom equipment Maintenance(BTS, Microwaves, GSM Ant, switching Room, Network Coverage Analysis(Drive Test)...)
  • ✅ Networking configurations with Huawei equipments
  • ✅ Developping autonomus systems with Python and SQL

Projects worked on

TORRE : A software that makes the process of finding work and finding talents transparent and automated

TORRE MASTERCHIEF : Masterchief is an ATS that help automaticaly screen and process candidates applications and manage job posts

TIKI WIKI CMS Groupware : A software communication association, helps building websites and web apps

WIKISUITE : The most integrated suite of Free/Libre/Opensource softwares with unlimited free features

SILLONDMS : An automated Company's workflow & document managment system

SECUTIF PRO v4 : A system that manages and automate the DRC Land Affairs Ministry.

bKAFI | at bTECH-Bakanna technology : A payment system based on fintech and Internet of Things launched in Chad (N'Djamena) in 2021