Victor Miclovich
C.E.O. at APPOCRITA
Uganda
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Miclovich is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 16 years of experience leading product and research initiatives from Uganda as CEO of APPOCRITA and a longtime contributor at Makerere University's Media Lab. He blends hands-on engineering across Python, Java, C/C++, and Linux with academic-rooted expertise in cryptography, computer vision, databases, and scientific programming. Victor has taught mobile engineering and applications development while mentoring students and driving industry-university collaboration to commercialize research and foster entrepreneurship. An active open-source contributor, he improved URL handling and maintainability in the widely used RapidSMS project, demonstrating attention to robust back-end design in real-world, SMS-driven systems. Comfortable switching between research, teaching, and production engineering, he often bridges gaps between academia and industry to ship practical software solutions.
16 years of coding experience
B.S of science, Computer Science; Computer science student, B.S of science, Computer Science; Computer science student at Makerere University
Github Skills (12)
url-routing10
web-development10
templater10
template-tags10
template-engine10
web-application10
webapp10
python10
django10
ember-i18n4
i18n-js4
rails-i18n4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rapidsms/rapidsms
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
Build SMS applications with Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on fixing and improving the RapidSMS application's URL handling within Django templates. They addressed issues related to URL generation with hyphens and made various adjustments to ensure correct linking across different pages, including login, logout, and the dashboard. The user also made several merges, potentially integrating other contributions, while maintaining and adjusting URL configurations across various templates. These efforts involved ensuring the correct implementation of URL tags and resolving related parsing errors, improving the application's overall usability and maintainability.
pythonsmspython3
unicefuganda/edtrac
Oct 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:1357 commits in 1 year
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