About Me
Courage Waelinam Ahorttor is an experienced software engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He has proven to be very efficient in both frontend and backend aspect of software development with extensive Knowledge on Linux Operating system (UBUNTU). He is Motivated by a passion for problem solving and software development. He enjoys contributing in high performing teams and building effective solutions to real-world problems.
Software Developer & Linux System Administrator
Courage W. Ahorttor is currently working as a Technical Lead with Gwo Sevo solutions Ghana Limited formerly called (TxtGhana Ltd).
- Website: www.waelinam.com
- Country & City: Accra, Ghana
- Education:KNUST, ATU, IPMC
- Email Address couragea57@gmail.com
Skills
Resume
Sumary
Courage W. Ahorttor
As an Experienced, Analytical, and detailed-oriented individual, I am looking to obtain a challenging position as a software engineer in an innovative and dynamic establishment, with the purpose of utilizing my skills to the achievement of organizational goals and self enhancement.
- Accra, Ghana
- couragea57@gmail.com
Education
Bachelors of Science
2022 - 2024
KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY of TECHNOLOGY
HND. COMPUTER SCIENCE
2013 - 2017
ACCRA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Advance Diploma in System Engineering
2019 - 2021
IPMC COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY.
Professional Experience
LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER,
April 2022 - Present
TXT-GHANA LIMITED, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Strategize organizational direction on emerging technology platforms and communicate the effectiveness to stakeholders.
- Effectively involved in implementing external Telecommunication (Orange, Vodafone, MTN) APIs for header Enrichment purposes and subscriber carrier billing (SCB).
- Developing Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and SMS gateways for client and in-house purposes
- Write comprehensive unit tests for existing and new features of a project written in PHP 8.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
January 2021 - March 2022
TOLDO LIMITED, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Built innovative microservice with third party API integration payment integration such as SMS API and fintech API. This helped to facilitate smooth payment transactions
- Actively involved in maintaining and refactored existing codebase written in PHP 7, Laravel and MySQL.
- Actively involved in improving buggy application functionality and introduced better ways of writing clean codes and testing of codes.
- Actively trying to introduce the use of other technologies such as Docker in the software development process to reduce operating system related bugs.
WEB DEVELOPER
March 2019 - December 2020
I-TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Spearheaded the transition of already existing web applications in CMS tools such as WordPress, to PHP, Laravel, JavaScript and Vue.
- Single handedly built an employee attendance standalone application in the java programming language to enable easy monitoring of employees.
- Helped in the creation of Application programming Interfaces (API) for the easy integration of products into third party applications.
- Helped in the setting up networking infrastructure, by laying ethernet cables and maintaining it using Microsoft windows server 2016 and Red-hat Linux operating system
