A very dedicated individual with years of experience in the field of Information Technology and keeping up to speed with the latest happenings in the field of technology. Enthusiastic about design and has skills in IT support services, web development and facilitation/training. A very good team player and forward thinker with finesse of paying attention to detail and with good communication skills.
Michael Sedinam Korku Tenu
Web Developer
Skills
Frontend
Intermediate
- HTML
- CSS / Tailwind CSS
- Javascript
- Bootstrap / jQuery
- Wordpress
Backend
Intermediate
- PHP / Laravel
- Wordpress
- mySQL
Devops
Intermediate
- Git
- Cpanel
- Heroku
Work Experience (11)
Aug 2021
- Current
Assistant Coding Trainer
AmaliTech gGmbH
AmaliTech provides technical teaching support to ICT Teachers for the Coding for Kids programme at SOS-Hermann Gmeiner Schools (HGS SOS) in Ghana.
Prepare lesson activities for HTML, CSS, and JS.
Prepare lesson materials for Scratch.
Generate study tasks or activities for Scratch and HTML & CSS.
Provide relevant support to on-site trainers.
Develop a strategic roadmap for completing the course outline with the aid of the Trainers.
Develop software system to track performance of students enrolled onto the programme at the varoius school branches.
Jul 2022
- Dec 2022
iT Operations Associate
Medtronic Labs
Train and assist Health Care workers to use company’s software solution to track and improve access to healthcare of people living with diabetes.
Liaise with HCWs to increase enrolment and assessment numbers from facilities for reporting purposes.
Liaise with team members and program lead for interventions to increase system use and participation.
Supervise and strengthen 15 Peer Support Groups of enrolled patients across 5 facilities.
Jan 2016
- Jan 2018
Developer
Listium
Built a very large and complex React / Redux application. It works on all platforms and has IOS/Android builds due to it being a PWA. (wrapped it in React Native though only implementing a WebView)
Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.
Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.
Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare
Hybrid app supported on all platforms
Jan 2011
- Current
Co-Founder
Cdnjs
Following Google’s CDN for jQuery, we decided to start a CDN for the less popular Javascript frameworks. The CDN is community moderated and open source on GitHub. We secured a partnership with Cloudflare who now supports the infrastructure.
Millions of sites use the CDN in production
Larger market share than Yahoo's, Microsoft's and Google's javascript content distribution networks
We serve hundreds of billions request a month
Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries
Millions of developers visit the site per year
Apr 2014
- Jan 2016
Developer
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.
Developed new tools for contacting congress
Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues
Lots of social networking integration
Mar 2013
- Jan 2015
CTO
Earbits
Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.
Managed a small team of developers and designers
Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js
Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS
Apr 2014
- Current
Founder
JSON Resume
JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes. There is no reason why there can't be a common standard for writing a resume that can be extended with an ecosystem of open source tools.
This resume is built with JSON Resume
Over 3000 stars on Github
Community developed themes
Tens of thousands of users
Jun 2013
- Jan 2016
Developer
Taskforce.is
Worked on many politically charged campaigns against mass surveillance. Not only technically challenging work but also a lot of networking and getting my hands dirty with politics. Our biggest project was "TheDayWeFightBack"..
Generated 37,000,000 banner views
100, 000 phone calls to congress
500, 000 emails
250, 000 signatures
Jan 2013
- Current
Co-Founder
Drone Hire
An international directory of civilian drone / UAV operators for hire. Services include aerial photography, aerial video, mapping, surveying, precision agriculture, real estate photography, remote inspections and infrared imaging. Our plan is to be the place to go when looking for UAV/Drone services. The website is built in Backbone.js and API is built with Node.js and Postgres.
The site and blog combined have managed to receive over 200,000 visitors in 2014.
Jan 2011
- Jan 2014
Founder
BackboneTutorials.com
I write tutorials and blog post regarding the popular Javascript framework Backbone.js. The tutorials cover a range of topics regarding front end development aimed at beginners, experts and anyone in between.
Over two million unique visitors a year
25,000+ ebook downloads
300,000+ Youtube views
Jan 2011
- Jun 2012
Front-end Developer
Ephox
Ephox is a worldwide company who is heavily involved with the development of TinyMce and enterprise editors. My primary role included building front-end widgets and applications. Worked on a major product using Backbone.js as a base. Heavily involved in UI/UX design and wire-framing. Also spend a lot of time designing API specifications and documentation.
Education (1)
Bachelors
Computer Science
Catholic University Ghana
- Current