Hi all, I'm Fezekile Gxalaba

I'm passionate Full Stack Software Developer, Security Analyst & Blockchain Developer, having an experience and skills of Web Applications with Python, Django, Flask, React.js, Node.js, Express.js, Next.js, Angular.js, React Native, Flutter App development. Blockchain development on Ethereum, Solidity, Web3.js, Moralis, Solana and Brownie Framework

What I do

I’M A SORT OF A TECHIE, GEEKY KIND OF A PERSON WHO WANTS TO EXPLORE EVERY TECH STACK

Full Stack Development

⚡ Building responsive Single-Page-Apps (SPA) & PWA in React.js & Angular.js

⚡ Building responsive static websites using Next.js

⚡ Building RESTful APIs in Django & Django REST Framework

Cloud Infra-Architecture

⚡ Experience of working on multiple cloud platforms

⚡ Hosting and maintaining websites and web applications on virtual machine instances along with integration of databases

⚡ Building CI/CD pipelines for automated testing & deployment using Github Actions

Blockchain development

⚡ Experience in developing Smart Contract using Solidity & Ethereum

⚡ Building Scripts for automated testing & deployment of Smart Contracts using Brownie & Infura

⚡ Experience of using Openzeppelin Smart Contract Standards & Chainlink Oracles

⚡ Developing NFT Smart Contracts using ERC-721 Token Standard

⚡ Building Dapps with React.js & Solidity using Web3.js, Moralis & IPFS

App Development

⚡ Experience in developing mobile applications using Flutter, Kotlin & Java

⚡ Building Scripts for automated testing & deployment of mobile applications using Firebase & MySQL

⚡ Experience of using Firebase Firestore Functions

Proficiency

Frontend Development
80%
Backend Development
70%
Figma
60%
Adobe XD
80%

Education

IBM Cognitive Class
IBM Full Stack Software Professional Certificate
September 2020 - October 2023Grade A

I have successfully completed all the modules to optain the certificate.

  • Introduction to Cloud Computing
  • Introduction to HTML, CSS & JavaScript
  • Getting Started with Git & Github
  • Developing Front-end Apps with React
  • Developing Back-end Apps with Node.js & Express
  • Python for Data Science, AI & Development
  • Developing AI Applications with Python & Flask
  • Django Application Development with SQL & Databases
  • Introduction to Containers w/ Docker, Kubernetes & Openshift
  • Application Development using Microservices & Serverless
  • Full Stack Software Development Capstone Project
  • Full Stack Software Developer Assessment

Experience

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Skyscanner

Frontend Developer
Apr 2023 – Oct 2023
Completed a job simulation where I built a web application using React as a front-end engineer at Skyscanner,developed a page for picking a travel date using Skyscanner’s open-source Backpack React library, Customised my application and ran automated tests to ensure it rendered properly.
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    Lyft

    Backend Developer
    Feb 2023 – Oct 2023
    Completed the Back-End Engineering job simulation, taking over development of an unfinished project for the Lyft Rentals team. Drafted a UML class diagram representing a new reorganized architecture. Refactored a messy codebase inherited from another team to accurately reflect my new design. Implemented unit tests and added new functionality using test-driven development
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      JP Morgan Chase & CO.

      Software Developer
      Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
      Set up a local dev environment by downloading the necessary files, tools and dependencies. Fixed broken files in the repository to make web application output correctly. Used JPMorgan Chase’s open source library called Perspective to generate a live graph that displays a data feed in a clear and visually appealing way for traders to monitor.
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        Standard Bank

        Software Engineer
        Aprl 2023 - Oct 2023
        Completed a job simulation focused on hypothetical projects to improve Standard Bank mobile app. And Built a Spring Boot application with JSON web tokens used for authentication, Developed a Python Lambda function to encode faces within images for mobile authentication. Retrieved data from Teradata by writing SQL queries, Prepared a Django application to return a personalised view of a user’s data.

          My Certifications

          Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Associate (2023)

          I recently completed the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundation Associate learning path and earned certification in the OCI Foundation Associate exam. The following are the foundations skills i gained:✅ OCI architecture, including Regions, Availability Domains, and Fault Domains. ✅ Public, Hybrid and Dedicated cloud services. ✅ Identity and Access Management (IAM). ✅ Networking Virtual Cloud Network(VCN Different gateways inside) VCN Routing, VCN Security, Local and Remote peering. Load Balancers in OCI.✅ OCI Compute service, Instance Basics, Live Migration between hosts Scaling (vertical scaling vs Autoscaling), Oracle container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE), VMs vs Containers, Docker vs Kubernetes, OKE clustera.✅ Storage

          Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified AI Associate (2023)

          I Have gained the following skills: ✅ OCI Language: Transform unstructured text into actionable insights with advanced natural language processing (NLP) models.✅ OCI Speech: Harness the power of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS conversion with high accuracy and reliability. ✅ OCI Vision: Achieve powerful image analysis, object detection, and recognition capabilities with state-of-the-art computer vision technologies. ✅ OCI Document Understanding: Automate document processing and extraction of structured data with intelligent document understanding. ✅ OCI Anomaly Detection: Detect anomalies and abnormalities in large datasets, identifying potential issues or outliers.

          Projects

          David Chu’s China Bitsro

          The site is a responsive website of a fictitious restaurant built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, & Angular.Js. This was the final project I did as a part of Coursera course - HTML,CSS and JavaScript For Web Developers. It showcases the basic features of a restaurant such as main seating area, location,menu categories,working hours and reviews. Besides, there’s also a Specials category which is randomly updated every time the Specials category page loads - so that you can get a flavour of all :)

          Demo

          Gxalaba Estate

          Gxalaba Estate is a fictional estate company. The web applications is a full stack application built with the following technologies: React.js for the front end, Express.js & Node.js for the server and MongoDB for database, JWT Firebase and Google OAuth. The web application showcase houses to be purchase and renting. Users can create account, signin delete thier account and create listings. Its a full CRUD application.

          Demo

          Fezekile`s Blog

          This is a full stack MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js) blog project with JWT Firebase and Google OAuth. The application uses advanced authentication like JSON WEB Tokens (JWT) and seamlessly integrate Google OAuth for a smooth login exprerience. The blog also uses the real-world CRUD Operations (CREATE, READ, UPDATE AND DELETE). Implementing modern search features that allow users to filter listings by title, apply sorting options, and efficiently limit search results using cutting-edge MongoDB tecniques.

          Demo

          Evently Web app

          Evently is a Full Stack event organization web app like Eventbrite or Meetup. Evently is a MERN stack web application, MongoDB, Express.js React, Node.js, and technologies like Tailwind CSS, Shadcn, React Hook Form, Zod, Uploadthing, React-Datepicker, Mongoose, Clerk, and Stripe. event management, the web app features are user registrations, search, filtering, categories, checkout

          Demo

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          Full Stack Software Developer

          South Africa