Clarice Bouwer Email & Phone Number

Mauritius

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.

Mauritius

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.

Mauritius

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.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

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.

Randburg, Johannesburg

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.

Dstv Digital Media - Randburg

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.

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

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

Johannesburg North

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.

Sandton

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

Bedfordview

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.

Vb.Net Certificate Course, Vb.Net

National Diploma, Information Systems: Software Development

Activities and Societies: Bursary ScholarshipSimilar to Computer Science Diploma however included C# (Full Language), Hardware Essentials.

National Diploma, Computer Science Internet Development

Computing Concepts, End User, Using Linux, Processing and logic concepts, Software engineering, Program design, relational database.

Matriculated, English (Hg), Afrikaans (Hg), Mathematics (Hg), Science (Hg), Economics (Hg), Computer Science (Hg), Grade 12

Activities and Societies: Representative of the Student Council (2002-2003) Editor of school newspaper (2003) Layout editor of school.