Ben W. Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gp, Za

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

I am working with Isinyithi to build them a digital site reporting solution, working as the lead Full Stack developer to digitize their paperback on-site workflow.### Project ManagementCommunicate with technicians and management to refine the product, give time frame estimates, and exchange feedback. I use a lite agile framework to keep on top of the project and provide regular updates.### R&DCreating a solution with a mixture of existing solutions and on-site hardware. The project spans the entire field report lifetime, from input capture to data archiving.### Roles and Responsibilities- Code and repository management- Project updates- Research- Development, testing and deployment- Data storage, access, and safety- Client communication

Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

I've been part of HID's hard-working, high performance firmware team for their Mercury PACS controllers. I have been doing a variety of work:###**Building rigs and Testing:**I have built and maintained physical testing rigs used to validate firmware changes and new hardware. I collaborate with QA to diagnose and fix hardware issues, as well as run tests. To help our distributed team I set up a PC on site with remote access for QA, or other developers, to flash firmware and debug. Occasionally I'd write python scripts for data processing.### **Equipment procurement:**Organising orders from the team, I communicate stock availability, get quotes, make orders, and receive/document deliveries.###**Firmware:** While my professional C/C++ experience is not extensive, I work on smaller tickets with the team. Fixing bugs, adding support for a board variants, refactoring services and tech debt, with shell scripting here and there.###**Roles and Responsibilities**- Handle data carefully and actively think about security- Agile environment with ceremonies (standup, 3 month planning, 2 week sprints, refinement)- Async collaboration with teams in the US and UK, being flexible with hours to accomodate- Assist QA with hardware

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I was a Backend developer in a small team working on value focused start-ups and new corporate projects. I worked with a C# Backend API on a windows-linux hybrid work environment. I was lead developer on our internal employee time management tool.### CRUD:Creating and maintaining endpoints manually or with low code tools, as well as updating the OpenAPI documentation.### Data handling:Validation of database integrity and manually fixing issues in staging.### Refinement:Provide feedback on user/developer experience of our API and suggest changes.### Testing:Write both unit and Postman tests, while assisting QA with E2E testing.## Roles and Responsibilities- Implement security policies of APIs- Maintain API documentation- Work with external and internal clients- Actively participate in the Agile team and ceremonies- Thoroughly test APIs

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Backend Developer and Technical Customer Support. Worked with C# API, OpenAPI documentation, Docker local development environment and Python scripting.### FinTech startup:My priority was on a modern banking and debtor follow-up platform. I developed features and worked through the bug backlog to relieve the senior devs. I was responsible with assisting clients with debit orders and onboarding/migrating to our platform. I created shell/Python scripts for data handling and bulk client orders, give technical support to customers, execute and automate anomalous debit orders, created and updated endpoints on our C# API, and maintain OpenAPI documentation.### Government grant POC:I was the lead backend developer on a POC proxy site aimed at easing the process of employees applying for labor grants. The service was built with FastAPI and used Selenium to scrape/automate the governments website that was barely functional.## Roles and Responsibilities- Proactively consider data security at every step- Engage with the teams Agile practices- Write maintainable, auditable software- Build software with UX in mind- Diligently assist with issues when on call

Woodstock, Cape Town

I worked in a team with a few interns on a spike to investigate and propose solutions to the load times of the main dashboard. From there I joined an australian devops team where we developed a MS teams bot for internal gitlab automation.

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I mainly did web development. Using Angular, Typescript and Javascript. Dabbled a bit with D3.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Part time field technician/assistant working on surveying pipelines.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I worked part time with a hard working team enhancing events with exciting practical pyrotechnics.### Equipment handling:Neatly prep/pack equipment and product for events, ensuring secure packaging for transit. Care is taken at all times as the product is hazardous.### Rigging:Set up product and firing equipment on site. I hauled, erected, secured and primed pyrotechnics as directed by the licensed technician. I tested the remote electronic igniters.### Cleaning:I removed any debris left over after the product was fired. I cleaned and carefully stowed equipment in our warehouse after events.## Roles and Responsibilities- Always consider the safety of myself, my crew, and civilians- Analyse, identify and report risks- Follow instructions from the licensed technician- Care for company equipment

Madeira, Portugal

Bartender, dishwasher, janitor, Waiter. Bartended at their music festival.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, First Class

Activities and Societies: Regular Leetcode competitionsWeThinkCode_ is a practical focused IT Tertiary Education Program that drives hands.

Matric Bachelors, It, Mathematics, Physics, Technical Drawing, English, Afrikaans

Activities and Societies: Sound and Lighting