Design, maintain & manage all technical aspects of an B2B SaaS platform which empowersthe financial services sector of South Africa. Verticals include retail credit,home loans, business loans & consumer loans.

Full Stack Engineer, worked closely with the Chief Technology Officer to capture requirements and actively worked on various projects consisting of an SaaS platform and various consumer facing prototypes in the FinTech and PropTech space. Duties/Technologies:• Technologies - Laravel, Angular, Mongo, MySQL, Nginx, Ubuntu • Design and development of REST API platform and modules• Integration with various 3rd party APIs• Development of consumer facing web applications• Integration support

PHP Web Developer, working closely with Project Manager to capture requirements for the functional elements of various web applications. Duties/Technologies:• Developing advanced database driven website solutions using CakePHP and Zend Frameworks within an LAMP environment using SVN for versioning.• Extending functionality in existing eCommerce modules (Magento, Oxid)• Implementation of a eCommerce Merchant System which communicated with various REST and SOAP APIs• Implementation of a Wordpress site using the Genesis Framework. Strict adherence to SEO and Responsive design standards• Adhoc maintenance of an application built in Java

Duties/Technologies:• Requirements analysis• Custom development and maintenance of CMS and CRM systems• Wordpress site setup/design• Newsletter design and campaign management

PHP Web Developer, worked closely with the development team lead to capture requirements and development of a web application that was used by external developers integrating with Mxit’s REST APIs (equivalent to the Facebook developer site).Duties/Technologies:• Technologies - CakePHP Framework, jQuery, MySQL, Nginx, Ubuntu, PHP CLI, Git, Linux Systems• REST APIs• Amazon EC2 AWS

PHP Web Developer, worked closely in development and requirements analysis with a team of startup enthusiasts on a free SMS Social Network which in turn provided a platform for demographically targeted advertising. User base consisted of 400 000 users.Duties/Technologies:• CakePHP Framework, jQuery, MySQL, Apache, PHP CLI, Git, Linux Systems• Integration with various 3rd party APIs (Facebook, Twitter, Xing, LinkedIn, Google, SMS Providers, South African Payment Gateway)• Built a REST API that was consumed by customers seeking a deeper integration into our platform.• Managed a team of developers in India.• Mentor for a Junior PHP developer working in Team• High traffic load balanced server setup and upkeep thereof

Junior PHP Web Developer, worked within a development team on various web applications.Duties/Technologies:• CakePHP Framework, jQuery, MySQL, Git, Ubuntu• Worked on a Moodle e-learning wrapper web application which abstracted the default authentication mechanism.• Worked on various touch screen kiosk web applications written in PHP and native Javascript.• Bulk image manipulation using PHP

Internship Position as PHP Web Developer, worked with another student on the development of a custom CRM solution using a custom in-house PHP Framework. The system was put into production.

German B2C Outbound Sales Consultant, telesales of various products to clients in Germany using the command of the German language.

I.T Support Consultant, providing general I.T support telephonically or client visits. Hardware sales and Network Installations.