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City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

* Remained ‘hands-on’ and continued the responsibilities of Principal Engineer* Liaise closely with the Chief of Product to identify PoC’s, manage timelines and provide high-level estimations on business initiatives.* Development of 4 year IT Strategy in line with long term Business objectives* Established SOP’S resulting in smoother process of support.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

* Stabilize and secure existing platform* Improved performance and scalability* Moved existing platform into Kubernetes* Led Cape Town engineering team from a technical perspective, which later extended to cover engineering within Nairobi.* Re-architecture of existing platform including decomposition of monolith applications.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Sydney, Australia

Working at one of Excelian's clients, Macquarie Bank within Commodities and Global Markets sector. Working on central rates platform using scala, gradle, Sybase.

Sydney, Australia

Engineering Lead for the mobile backend services. Role involved the decomposition of the monolith into microservices, high level estimations and planning. Technology stack included Springboot, Java, Play! framework and extensive use of AWS services, such as Route 53, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, CloudFront and Lambdas.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Moved back to SATSO for a short term contract to help rebuild the Java team due to the passing of the previous Lead Developer. Main objectives were recruitment, upskill and knowledge share of iTransact and related Java products, assist in upgrade of one of their clients core banking engine, documentation of environment and infrastructure, and to continue.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Outlined Continuous Deployment pipeline strategy, redesign of architecture for custom developed applications, architectural design of proposed PaaS Solution, recruitment and mentorship of developers. Technology Used: WildFly 8, Java EE 7, MySQL, JUnit, Arquillian, Maven, Git, DDD, Nexus, Sonar, Jenkins, Linux, MacOSX, Continuous Integration (CI).

Cape Town

Work as part of a small team building internet banking solutions and reporting tools for various banks across the continent. The system integrates with the T24 banking engine. Role involved full server prep, WildFly configuration, Java development, setup of Redmine & MediaWiki, help setup of T24 backend test environment, Linux administration.Technology.

Cape Town

Led a team of 3 working on the BSG Multisport application. Successfully upgraded the environment to Java 7. Reinforced the benefits of Object Orientation, separation of concerns, good application design and architecture, and the benefits of having a sound testing strategy. Introduced the concept of an SLA rotating support doctor, with the aim of knowledge.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Single handedly introduced the Spring framework to one of the software applications, including dependency injection, JDBC DAO support, and Spring integration testing. Also complete refactoring of services within one of the business domains, to bring it into line with current Java EE6 standards.

An online gaming company, applying domain driven design to add new functionality to the existing Bingo software. Porting legacy code from EJB2 and JDBC to EJB3 specification using Hibernate as the persistence implementation. Involved in meetings to discuss the development and improvement of performance and scalability, with the aim of vertical and.