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City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Refactored the existing web applications into a monorepo, extracting common functionality into libraries, reducing the code base and removing repetition.• Identified common components and services and further refactored those into NPM packages for company-wide usage.• Implemented state management and enabled caching, effectively removing all duplicate API calls and reducing infrastructure costs.• Implemented offline availability of existing applications using service workers and… Show more • Refactored the existing web applications into a monorepo, extracting common functionality into libraries, reducing the code base and removing repetition.• Identified common components and services and further refactored those into NPM packages for company-wide usage.• Implemented state management and enabled caching, effectively removing all duplicate API calls and reducing infrastructure costs.• Implemented offline availability of existing applications using service workers and the caching mentioned above. • Implemented automated unit, e2e and visual testing with Jest, Cypress and BackstopJS, moving code coverage from 0% to 100%.• Refactored the web front end using Ionic and vanilla CSS, enabling responsive and fluid UI’s that adapt to all form factors and platforms (Android, iOS and desktop).• Ongoing mentoring of developers within the team. Show less

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• Created the bank’s design system, the single source for copy standards, design principles and guidelines, typography, icons, reusable components and technical documentation.• First to implement single-signon integration with the bank’s Active Directory and AWS using serverless technologies.• Researched, standardised and documented cloud architecture, security and development standards within the bank• Designed modular, reusable Angular UI components and services, implemented by… Show more • Created the bank’s design system, the single source for copy standards, design principles and guidelines, typography, icons, reusable components and technical documentation.• First to implement single-signon integration with the bank’s Active Directory and AWS using serverless technologies.• Researched, standardised and documented cloud architecture, security and development standards within the bank• Designed modular, reusable Angular UI components and services, implemented by teams within the bank and across countries.• Created framework agnostic web components, initially in Vue.js and then Stencil, resulting in extremely lightweight packages. • Went on roadshows promoting the design system, encouraging component reuse and consistency from design through to development and deployment. Also presented to external companies.• Aligned the tech. stack across the bank’s web teams. Standardised the web framework, currently Angular, implemented testing strategies and assisted with build pipelines.• Architected a hybrid solution for integrating web applications in our mobile applications.• Ran a web guild, promoted best practices and standards including design patterns, clean code, code QA, code re-use and cross-team communication. • Placed in the top 3 out of 40+ teams in 3 bank hackathons with solutions consisting of offline banking, digitising the home loans application process from start to finish and contactless ATM Show less

• Developed the bank’s first mobile banking app for Android in a 3 month deadline. • Developed on the Windows Phone platform team and released the first SA banking app on Windows 8 OS.• Travelled to China as technical consultant with ICBC on development of Windows Phone app.• Developer lead on the iPad banking app team• Designed and developed .NET web applications for the bank including Vehicle and Asset finance calculators and yearly customer fee rate change site with… Show more • Developed the bank’s first mobile banking app for Android in a 3 month deadline. • Developed on the Windows Phone platform team and released the first SA banking app on Windows 8 OS.• Travelled to China as technical consultant with ICBC on development of Windows Phone app.• Developer lead on the iPad banking app team• Designed and developed .NET web applications for the bank including Vehicle and Asset finance calculators and yearly customer fee rate change site with administration site.• Integrated with SQL databases to create and display daily reports from various bank systems. Show less