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Cape Town, Wc, Za

Cape Town

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Strategic Leadership: Architected and implemented the engineering operational strategy, emphasizing organisational design, hiring during the challenging "talent wars" of 2022, and enhancing the employee experience.Scaling Expertise: Successfully doubled our technical staff headcount YoY, enabling the creation of strategically crucial product teams, and played a pivotal role in scaling up our technical infrastructure and AI capabilities.Team Building: Assembled a powerhouse engineering management team comprising 4 top-tier leaders, ensuring a culture of continuous growth and delivery.Major Contributions:• Partnered with the Head of People Experience and Operations to design a comprehensive career progression framework.• Hiring of 20+ engineers across various roles and diverse product teams.• Oversaw privacy responsibilities until successful transition to in-house legal counsel.• Thoughtfully expanded our engineering team to optimise performance, cohesion and headcount budget.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Leadership: Planning and execution of technology initiatives, with a particular focus on enhancing developer experience (DX) and deriving maximum value from our data assets.Team growth: Built out the next evolution of our data team, culminating in its establishment as a standalone function.Privacy & compliance: As Privacy Officer, brought about GDPR compliance through operational, cultural, and product transformations.Major contributions:• Key decision-maker in hiring pivotal roles within Data Analysis, Data Science, and Data Engineering.• Orchestrated the successful transition of Data Science products from inception to production.• Established data pipelining capabilities using tools like dbt and Airflow.• Implemented a Business Intelligence framework, ensuring quicker and more accurate insights.• Devised Data Science strategies for improved salary guidance and addressing onboarding drop-offs.• Represented OfferZen's privacy, security, and system health during the Series A fundraising Technical Due Diligence.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

OfferZen is a fast-growing marketplace where companies hire software developers, UI/UX designers, scrum masters and other technical roles. We flip the normal recruitment model around, so instead of developers applying for jobs, companies send them interview requests with upfront salary indications. We are changing the way that people, who are involved in the making of software, find work in South Africa.Technologies used:Ruby on Rails, React.js, Python, Heroku, AWS, MongoDB, Redshift

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Master Of Science In Engineering (Msc(Eng)), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering (Bsc(Eng)), Electrical Engineering, With Distinction

Bachelor Of Engineering Science (Bengsc(Bme)), Biomedical Engineering

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