Stephen Perelson Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

My daily tasks generally revolve around mentoring, reviewing, coding, and planning. My team heads up the marketing related technical tasks that impact the profit centre projects. In a typical sprint we would make changes to sitemap generation, information architecture, and data tracking. We also head up implementation of new features that have included integration of browser notifications into our Websites and by leveraging our micro-services architecture. My team is also in charge of the… Show more My daily tasks generally revolve around mentoring, reviewing, coding, and planning. My team heads up the marketing related technical tasks that impact the profit centre projects. In a typical sprint we would make changes to sitemap generation, information architecture, and data tracking. We also head up implementation of new features that have included integration of browser notifications into our Websites and by leveraging our micro-services architecture. My team is also in charge of the creation and maintenance of related Wordpress blogs. We recently used Imagify to help improve the performance and Core Web Vitals score for our blogs. Show less

South Africa

Port Elizabeth Area, South Africa

The CTO role for the Cars vertical mostly encompasses the Lead/Principle developer tasks on the project. Responsibilities include: * Team management (hiring, mentoring, growth)* Business management (liaising with the leadership team, planning projects, expectation management)* Ensuring that the Cars vertical operates smoothly with all other aspects of business (DevOps, SEO, UX+UI, HR, BI, etc)* Feature implementation and maintenanceBesides the business skills, I am… Show more The CTO role for the Cars vertical mostly encompasses the Lead/Principle developer tasks on the project. Responsibilities include: * Team management (hiring, mentoring, growth)* Business management (liaising with the leadership team, planning projects, expectation management)* Ensuring that the Cars vertical operates smoothly with all other aspects of business (DevOps, SEO, UX+UI, HR, BI, etc)* Feature implementation and maintenanceBesides the business skills, I am well skilled with the following technologies and concepts:* PHP* Laravel* Caching systems (e.g.: Memcache, Redis)* Queues* Git* Frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, Sass, Javascript, VueJS, and build systems)* Testing frameworks (PHPUnit)* NodeJS* AWS Show less

Remote

As a senior web engineer, I helped plan and create the architecture, design and development of Web centric systems and services in support of Mxit's users, teams, and customers.Skills used: Systems Analysis & Design, Systems Implementation, Project Management, Web Development (PHP), MongoDB, DevOps (AWS centric)I was deeply involved in projects that enabled revenue generation. This included conceptualisation, planning, as well as maintenance and support. Tasks included… Show more As a senior web engineer, I helped plan and create the architecture, design and development of Web centric systems and services in support of Mxit's users, teams, and customers.Skills used: Systems Analysis & Design, Systems Implementation, Project Management, Web Development (PHP), MongoDB, DevOps (AWS centric)I was deeply involved in projects that enabled revenue generation. This included conceptualisation, planning, as well as maintenance and support. Tasks included identifying and prioritising features as well as ensuring other departments get the best possible gains from their chosen solutions. Primary projects include the Mxit Launch platform that enables marketing efforts to easily gain access to the Mxit userbase and the Help bot, which enables an integrated customer relationship management with the Mxit userbase.I worked remotely from my home-based office in Port Elizabeth. Show less

Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Freelance development creating advanced mobile and web based solutions. Work includes Windows Phone projects and an advanced web service for a popular mobile chat network.I am usually involved for most of the development lifecycle advising or creating the architecture and specifications through coding and implementation.

Aduity was a small South African startup that was focused on Ad management and SMS campaigns.I was deeply involved in the architecture, design and development of innovative and practical web based services and mobile applications for the smart phone market.Skills used include Systems Analysis & Design, Systems Implementation, Project Management, Web Development (PHP), MySQL, MongoDB, JavaScript, Objective-CI was initially involved in the development of an SDK for Nokia… Show more Aduity was a small South African startup that was focused on Ad management and SMS campaigns.I was deeply involved in the architecture, design and development of innovative and practical web based services and mobile applications for the smart phone market.Skills used include Systems Analysis & Design, Systems Implementation, Project Management, Web Development (PHP), MySQL, MongoDB, JavaScript, Objective-CI was initially involved in the development of an SDK for Nokia smartphones to allow WRT (Web Runtime applications) and Qt based applications to pull managed ad units from the Aduity ad mediation and application exchange services. I then progressed to an iOS based version of the SDK. Finally, became involved with the design and development of a Web based product for the advanced tracking and reporting of SMS marketing campaigns. Show less

As a lecturer, I was responsible for the creation of learning material, lecture planning, as well as teaching various technical skills such as: .NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, T-SQL, and soft skills like problem solving.The specific details of this job: * Created and lectured the Development Software 4 module as well as other modules* Assessed learners as they progressed through subjects and tried to impart knowledge in order to further the learners understanding of the… Show more As a lecturer, I was responsible for the creation of learning material, lecture planning, as well as teaching various technical skills such as: .NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, T-SQL, and soft skills like problem solving.The specific details of this job: * Created and lectured the Development Software 4 module as well as other modules* Assessed learners as they progressed through subjects and tried to impart knowledge in order to further the learners understanding of the subject matter. Show less