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City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

As a valued member of the development team at my current position, I actively contribute to the Vumacam's security platform, which serves to integrate incoming alerts, video feeds, and control room operators as part of the broader SafeCity initiative. In my role, I provide crucial technical assistance to the analysis and design team, specializing in the development of microservices and the implementation of services on the Azure platform. Additionally, I serve as the technical advisor for data analytics at Vumacam, enhancing our CI/CD processes and conducting thorough code reviews. Furthermore, I have taken the initiative to facilitate developmental huddles for OpenVantage and organized an in-house coding challenge, showcasing my commitment to fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Joined Luno's user experience team, enhancing soft skills and becoming a well-rounded software engineer. Managed interactions and user experiences, launching new cryptocurrencies globally and collaborating with regulators. Ensured Frontend engineers received accurate data and correct screen specifications in Luno's Backend driven environment. Conducted interviews, rigorous code reviews, and contributed to technical design documents for new projects.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Drafted technical architecture and requirements, managing projects like the Covid-19 Portal for Dimension Data's office spaces in South Africa and Kenya. Led a follow-up project focusing on global office management, enabling staff planning and capacity management. Also contributed to optimizing Dimension Data's bonus calculations, reducing processing time from months to minutes.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Assumed leadership role, mentoring and training four graduates while overseeing their progress through report writing and tracking. After hours, initiated migration of RPA platform to Spring framework for future microservices support, reducing dependency on external web servers and deployment time. Tasked to work on the conversion full time due to platform stability. Implemented a new authentication server, enabling multiple social logins and streamlining future security configurations. Conducted successful penetration testing sessions for the framework.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Taking the lead role on internal projects, collaborating in a small team with guidance from Senior Solution Architect. Worked on the development of an Agri-IoT solution for Royal Eswatini Sugar Corporation, streamlining sugarcane processes and conducting simulations for accurate predictions. Contributed to core code development for an in-house Robotic Automation Process (RPA) solution, integrating diverse systems and technologies.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

As a Graduate Consultant at Britehouse, I researched and implemented technologies to enhance projects. I focused on making solutions more generic and modular, reducing implementation time by breaking them into web services and microservices.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

At Digiata, my responsibility was doing support work on their SQL database at a client. The tasks included the use of in-house developed tools to create automated procedures and rules for managing data migrations, data transactions and generating dynamic reports.

Honours Degree B.Sc. Computer Science And Information Systems, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Student Assistant Field of study: • Information Systems Engineering • Computer Security • Decision Support.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Information Technology

Major Subjects: • Expert Systems • Artificial Intelligence • Communication Skills • Computer Networks • Databases • Data Structures.

National Senior Certification