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Lead DeveloperDates Employed November 2016 – nowLocation Sandton, South AfricaI was promoted to lead developer for my effort and dedication in stabilising a new system. Working in an agile environment for the Fintech startup my responsibilities included:-Leading technical discussions and decisions-Mentoring junior developers-Managing the delivery through deployments, rollbacks-monitoring logs and performance, tweaking and creating new ones where necessary-Running stand-ups, retrospectives, planning sessions-Reviewing code changes, ensuring quality and agreed standards/principles are met-Developing high quality features, focusing on reliability, maintainability and scalability-Integrating multiple third party API'sKey Achievements:-Promoted to Lead Developer-Tech lead in a number of successful projects-Helped kick start remote development team in India and supporting them there afterSkills used:C# (4.0-4.5.2), ASP.net Web Forms, Angular 2, SQL Server, Amazon Web Services (AWS), REST API, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, GIT, YouTrack, Mongo, 3rd party integrations

Software DeveloperDates Employed October 2015 – December 2018Location Sandton, South Africa.Net Framework Software Developer on multiple projects for The Cyest CorporationMain Responsibilities-C# developer on multiple client applications-Maintaining existing C#, VB.net and VB based software applications for national entertainment company-Managing client relationships and ensuring company growth-Mentor junior developers-Manage developers career progression and enjoymentKey Achievements:-Helped created an Azure IoT safety application with a visual front end for a Canadian client -Performance managed external and internal developers to ensure successful project completion.-Was seconded to a Fintech startup where I was quickly promoted to tech lead and managed to stabilise the product and client relationshipSkills used:.Net Core 2.2, C# (up o 4.6), Angular, React, ASP.net Web Forms, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Bitbucket/TFS, Jira, Management, Client Interaction

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Software DeveloperDates Employed January 2011 – September 2014Location Sandton, South Africa.Net Framework Software Developer on multiple projects for South African BreweriesMain Responsibilities-Participating in technical discussions and decisions-Maintaining existing C# based software applications-Creating a visual career progession tool utilising Silverlight and C# web services-Participating in stand-ups, retrospectives and planning sessionsKey Achievements:-Placed as lead developer on a troubled national mobile project -Performance managed external team of developers to stabilise the mobile project-Was deployed as the lead tech resource for a national software tender project worth millionsSkills used:C#, ASP.net Web Forms, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, TFS, Jira, SQL Server Merge Replication, Silverlight, WCF

SEMA was a printing house mainly focussed in printing and storing large transactional statements and contracts. My job was to effectively accept multiple different file types through a generic web services and convert them to the applicable storage type and index the important pieces for easy retrieval (WCF, ASP.NET, SQL)

Worked on a B2B system for movie distributor video rental sales as well as an airline check in and seating system

Helped create and maintain an online FX trading system and a corporate internet banking system with multi level approvals