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Waterloo, On, Ca

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Mirdrand

Responsible for creation of high-level and low-level design documentation for AWS Cloud solutions as well as K8S Microservice solutionsArchitected and completed development in order to facilitate the migration of several high volume user journeys to leverage CloudFront in order to meet Vodafone performance KPIsDeveloped Terraform Infrastructure as Code to meet the requirements of our move into AWSBuilt and took live an AWS Solution to deploy WSO2 Identity Server implementation as centralised Identity ProviderDesigned and Implemented Identity & Access management architecture for Digital ChannelsConducted production incident analysis and either applied code fixes or advised responsible teamAwardsWas awarded Group I.T. Star Award for my contributions in delivering Vodafone's Performance KPI for the vodacom.co.za websiteOn-prem tech stack: Springboot, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Informix DB, Oracle DB, REST, SOAPAWS tech stack: CloudFormation, Terraform, CloudFront, ELB, EC2, ElasticSearch, RDS, EFS, AWS Backup, IAM, S3

Midrand

Drove agile ceremonies and practices for the engineersWas responsible for delivery of projects in alignment with IT and business objectivesResponsible for creation of the high-level and low-level design of Microservices solutionMentored developers, completed code reviewsEnsured the team adopted newly provided platform capabilities and CICD tooling as they became availableDeveloped Microservices solutions for deployment into on-premises Kubernetes clusterDeveloped business features, unit tests and bug fixesTech stack: HTML, CSS, ReactJS, Java SE, Springboot, Kubernetes, Informix DB, Oracle DB, REST, SOAP

Sandton City, Johannesburg

Provided technical leadership to the BBD team based at the clientDelivered low-level designs required for feature developmentMigrated SIP (Single Insurance Platform) to JBoss 6 EAPImplemented performance improvements which improved dashboard first load performance by 90% by leveraging async calls to retrieve data and improved address lookup time by 80% Profiled Java code and implement performance enhancements based on findingsRoot cause analysis and code fixes for production incidentsDeveloped SOAP UI automation to test servicesTech stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java SE, Java EE, JBoss Application Server, SOAP Webservices, JMS, JBoss SEAMTooling: Eclipse, Subversion, JIRA

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Migrated ~50 IBM Actuate reports to Jasper ReportingMigrated approximately ~20 WebSphere Portal functional portlets to Oracle WebLogic Portal portletsCreated XHTML Mobile web presentations for consumption by feature phone to deliver the online mobile strategyLead engagement with business stakeholders and UX to redesign the buy-bundles business capability - including consolidating the airtime and bundle transfer functions into a single streamlined journeyLead a team of 4 developers tasked with rewriting the journey using AngularJS, REST APIs, and EJBDelivered performance improvements of up to 97% over previous webservice response latencyTech stack: HTML, CSS, AngularJS, Java SE, Java EE, JSR 286 portlets, Informix DB, Oracle DB, Jasper Reports, REST, SOAPTooling: Eclipse, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Oracle SQL Developer

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Implemented and operated several osCommerce PHP websitesCreated, implemented, and maintained plugins which provided enhancements to the sites functionality (added and integrated credit card payments, implemented basket tracking to encourage abandoned basket owners to place their orders, media and content plugins which provided image carousels and other enhancements to provide a better user experience)Managed inventory (researched new items, maintained stock levels with our suppliers)Administered company financesSupported customers and handled customer queriesTech stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Java SE, Java EE

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Managed and mentored junior developersPrepared and facilitated Java programming testInterviewed prospective candidates and provided input into hiring decisionsDesigned software components and maintained Java Customs clearing solutionTech stack: Java SE, Java EE, JDBC, Firebird DB, Java Applets and Crystal Reporting

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Demoed software to prospective customersInstalled software and provided user training to new customersProvided telephonic and on-site support to customersAttended stakeholder meetings with Customs & Excise to understand new rules and present these to the team in order to make the necessary changes to our application software

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Information/Software Engineering

Certificate Of Competence, Software Technologies And Techniques

Certificate Of Competence, Introduction To Software Engineering

Certificate Of Competence, Software Project Management

Certificate Of Competence, Database Systems

Certificate Of Competence, Software Development Methodologies, Analysis And Design

International Advanced Diploma In Computer Studies, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Comprehensive Programming Diploma, Java Development