Maurice Okumu
Senior Software Engineer at Thoughtworks
Streamwood, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaurice Okumu is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of professional experience, currently at Thoughtworks and actively seeking new opportunities while mentoring remotely as a Hacker-in-Residence for Hack Reactor. He is a full-stack contributor comfortable across front-end and back-end work, demonstrated by substantive contributions to the widely used cloud-carbon-footprint project—adding error handling, expanding emissions accounting, UI refinements, and initial GCP billing support. Based in Streamwood, Illinois, Maurice blends practical engineering with a sustainability mindset, focusing on measurable impacts like energy and carbon estimation in cloud systems. His background includes a Hack Reactor software engineering certificate and a non-traditional path from retail management into tech, which informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach to building reliable software.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in software engineering Computer Software Engineering, Certificate in software engineering Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Github Skills (14)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
gcp9
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
footprint9
carbon-emissions9
cloud-computing8
athena8
aws8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footprint
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Cloud Carbon Footprint is a tool to estimate energy use (kilowatt-hours) and carbon emissions (metric tons CO2e) from public cloud usage
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Maurice contributed significantly to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the cloud-carbon-footprint project. They implemented new features and refactored existing ones, including adding error handling to the Athena service, and expanding account emissions data. They also worked on UI improvements, specifically refining the donut chart display and error page messaging. In addition, they implemented initial support for GCP compute engine billing data.
climatepythonfootprintcloudemissions
department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Public resources for building on and in support of VA.gov. Visit complete Knowledge Hub:
Contributions:4 comments, 9 issues in 11 months
govvisitknowledge
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