As the director, I oversee daily operations, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently. I focus on making practical decisions, resolving immediate issues, and supporting my team to deliver exceptional outcomes. My role is all about keeping things on track and fostering a collaborative, productive environment.

As a software engineering team lead, I support my team in building quality software by guiding projects, removing roadblocks, and fostering growth. I act as a bridge between the team and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and balanced workloads. While I still code, my focus is on enabling the team to collaborate effectively and deliver great results.

As a software engineer, I design, develop, and implement software solutions while building and supporting Cloudsure's technology team. I collaborate with the VP of Engineering, customers, and partners to define product requirements and translate them into actionable plans. I focus on delivering high-quality systems on time, managing resources effectively, and ensuring thorough testing and validation.My role also involves supporting recruitment, mentoring the team, and maintaining strong relationships with customers and development partners. I stay updated on emerging software trends and work collaboratively to solve technical challenges, ensuring progress is communicated clearly to stakeholders.I am on the team who has architected and developed a distributed solution on GCP, leveraging Clojure for functional business logic, Node.js for APIs, Pub/Sub for asynchronous messaging, Firestore for NoSQL storage, and Kubernetes for container orchestration. We designed systems using the Command Pattern and custom event-sourcing approaches to ensure modularity, resilience, and auditability. We built and maintained a microservices-based architecture with real-time updates, eventual consistency, and robust failure handling, delivering a maintainable and scalable platform for complex, distributed workloads.

Integrate between virtual machines and hosts by writing software to create and manage virtual machines from a customer's perspective using Clojure and ClojureScript in the https://app.cloudafrica.net solution. Develop features on internal tools to administer VMs. Audit and report on data. Set up Prometheus monitoring across the stack reporting through Grafana.

I work on the DStv Now project: a service offering online streaming for linear and video on demand to DStv customers.I am responsible for creating new features, maintaining the website and supporting customer queries escalated from a Command Centre agent.

I was based at DStv Digital Media the day I joined 3Fifteen (now Britehouse). I was introduced to Agile and formed part of a Scrum environment in a cross-functional team.The first team I joined was the Original Productions team. I worked on projects:* Idols South Africa* Big Brother Mzansi and Big Brother Angola* Channel O Music Video Awards* Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards (AMVCA)I was later moved to the DStv Now website, an online DStv live TV and Catch Up streaming service for selected subscription packages.

I was responsible for the development and maintenance of automated processes and custom development integration with XMPie for on-demand variable data printing solutions.

I was responsible for the development of custom event registration and management solutions. My primary focus was on Microsoft events such as Tech-Ed (Africa and Middle East), Partner Summit, Bootcamps, DevDays and TechDays. In 2010, I was promoted to Team Lead.In most Tech-Ed and Partner Summit I would design & develop registration websites & supporting tools. (A full support tool for support centre staff was created as a Windows application by a different developer who I worked closely with)The registration portion included:* registration form for delegate, speaker, sponsor, Microsoft staff* allow support staff to apply discount* online payment using (Nedbank iVeri Lite or Mashreq)* a session scheduler with a built in evaluation form* an agenda* design competition images to be displayed on the isle TVs during the eventOnsite I would:* ensure that rotating content displays correctly on the isle screens (competitions, agenda etc)* display top speakers and top talks in the speaker room* setup onsite website on onsite machines for easy self-help* aid support staff with any delegate queries* support speakers regarding their evaluation queries* provide client-facing support where neededFor Bootcamps, DevDays and TechDays the registration website was built with a full support system in the back-end.My colleague and I worked closely with the Support Centre personnel.

I was responsible for developing, enhancing and supporting the internal Global Hotel Reservation web application.

I started working as an Assistant Instructor as I was awarded a bursary. I was responsible for managing students, developing pre-test materials, hosting workshops and marking projects and exams. In October 2005, I was promoted to Junior Instructor.