Francis Guchie
Senior Information Technology Consultant
Freetown, Western Area Urban, Sierra Leone
Summary
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SeniorFrancis Guchie is a Senior Information Technology Consultant with eight years of experience building web-based financial applications and driving fintech adoption across Sierra Leone. He specializes in open-source core banking systems, contributing backend fixes and data model enhancements to the notable Apache Fineract project that improved loan repayment logic and currency handling. As former CTO of Innovation SL and head of microfinance technical services at iDT Labs, he blends hands-on Java backend work with strategic leadership to enable financial inclusion. Outside of tech he applies the same practical engineering mindset to constructing habitable structures and tuning motorcycle engines, earning the nickname “GuchieTech the biker.”
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
banking10
finance10
javas10
bank10
apache10
sql10
java10
database-design9
spring-boot8
heidisql6
mysql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/fineract
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Apache Fineract
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 8 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Francis primarily contributed to the back-end logic and database interactions of the Apache Fineract project. Their commits focused on fixing SQL grammar issues within loan repayment processes and addressing errors related to loan transactions. The user also updated currency information and added a new currency, demonstrating work on data model enhancements. Furthermore, the user's changes included code modifications within Java files, particularly within service implementations.
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francisguchie/fineract
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
Apache Fineract
Contributions:38 commits, 190 pushes, 57 branches in 1 year 4 months
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