Dewald De Jager Email & Phone Number

Melrose Arch

My duties include:• API development: Development and management of REST and GraphQL APIs through the SDLC• API integration: Integrating APIs by using queues and event-driven architectures. Setting up and operating of networking infrastructure such as load balancers, API gateways, proxies, reverse proxies, private network connections between AWS accounts and on-prem. Hoisting shared functionality such as authentication, rate-limiting, circuit breakers, etc., out of APIs and into an API gateway so it can be leveraged by all APIs• Automating build, test and release processes using a variety of CI/CD tools. Improve team workflows with automation to decrease lead time and time to market• Coaching and leading teams as well as mentoring individuals• Presenting, contributing to and organizing a multitude of training initiatives• Migration of applications from on-premise and within AWS, including re-architecting applications to be cloud-native and get the most value from being in the cloud• Driving initiatives to increase observability of applications• Native iOS and Android app development• Contributing to open source projects and promoting an innersource culture• Ensuring that applications are recorded in the CMDB and are mapped to business functions so that impact to the systems can be translated to business impact. Ensure the team is following the correct change, incident and problem management processes.• Promoting SecOps best practices by rolling out tooling and automating the assessment of application and infrastructure source code to ensure adherence to organizational governance and compliance standards• Assist teams with debugging issues in complex, and sometimes unknown, environments• Performing technical audits: Meet with teams to walk through their cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes to identify opportunities for increasing DevOps and software engineering maturity

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

- Work on a range of projects including website development, Android apps, embeddedmicro-controller programming, data science and technical consultation- Many programming languages and technologies are used in the work, requiring me to learnnew things quickly and on the go- Learnt strong time management skills and dealt with many clients who still hire me often- Introduced to many industries and had to learn many new skills to suit the requirements ofcertain projects

University Of Pretoria, South Africa

- Implementation of a bounded model checker in Java using three-valued abstraction. Thisentails encoding a concurrent system and the property to be checked using a propositionallinear temporal logic (LTL) formula and using a boolean satisfiability (SAT) solver to verify thesystem- Work on extensions of current research in formal software verification

University Of Pretoria, South Africa

- Contribute to the open source framework CIlib by implementing new CI algorithms,specialising in particle swarm optimisation (PSO) and genetic algorithms- Perform general research tasks such as exploring new topics and reporting back or startingdevelopment of new techniques- Currently working on using PSO for rule extraction from random forests

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

South Africa

Project management, level design, application and software testing. In charge of 2 employees and seeing that production runs smoothly.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Ballroom & Latin Dancing, Rock Climbing

Education record

Activities and Societies: First Aid, Public Speaking, Speechmasters, Desert Walks, Red Blazer Programme (Leadership), Biology Club