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Berlin, Germany

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Led a small team in charge of internationalising the core home services booking platform and product for readiness in new markets, including Kenya, Nigeria, and Egypt.Responsibilities Include:- Worked with key stakeholders across the engineering, product, and operational teams to identify and plan upcoming features and technical initiatives.- Onboarded new team members and mentored junior engineers.- Continuous refactoring and improvement of existing systems, pages, and screens while building new functionality from the ground up.- Overhauled key systems responsible for matching system-level operational areas with customers' locations using geolocation and geospatial data.- Implementation of new features on the Python backend, and new web pages and mobile screens using React and React Native

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Working with the following technologies:Backend: Python (Django), MySQL, GraphQLFrontend: Javascript, React, React Native, HTML and CSSInfrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Docker and Gitlab CI/CDKey responsibilities and projects:- Implemented numerous frontend improvements to the core booking funnel and booking edit flows on both web and mobile- Implementation of new features, such as shareable profile pages for workers on the platform and added functionality to the cancellation funnel.- Optimisation of CI/CD pipelines- Collaboration on site reliability and dev ops related tasks and planning sessions- Ongoing maintenance of the core systems' code and infrastructure- Continual upgrades and migrations to new versions of frameworks and packages- Specification and planning of new features and integrations from inception through to implementation, testing and delivery.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Tripco is the holding company of LekkeSlaap.co.za and TravelGround.com, which are South African accommodation booking platforms akin to Booking.com or AirBnB.Worked with the following technologies:Backend: PHP, Python, C++, MySQL/MariaDBFrontend: Vue.js, HTML and HTML5, Javascript (including ES6), CSS, SASS/SCSS- Worked within the agile methodology using Jira and CI/CD systems integrated with GitHub- Continuous support, and maintenance of existing systems and webpages.- Implemented improvements to developer tools and company-wide administrative pages and tools- Researched new frameworks and migrated existing pages from JQuery and outdated PHP-practices to PHP 7+ with Slim, Vue, Javascript ES10, and SCSS.- Communicated with other teams to formulate specifications for major projects- Designed and developed new pages and features from specification through to quality-assurance testing.

Stellenbosch, South Africa

Conducted tastings and tours at Van Ryn’s Brandy Distillery (Part time). Assisted with sales of brandy and brandy-related merchandise.

Westlake, Cape Town, South Africa

Developed a custom back- and frontend that pulls data from a hosted Wordpress installation using the Wordpress REST APIs and displays it in a native PHP, HTML, Javascript and CSS system.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Learnt the Objective C and Swift programming languages for use in iOS (iPhone and iPad) application development. Helped out with bug fixing and implementing Google Drive uploading for user files in the Universe application.

Muizenberg, South Africa

Helped out with administrative and secretarial duties.

Bachelors, Geo-Informatics And Computer Science

National Senior Certificate (Matric)