Senior software engineer and technical lead with extensive experience delivering web, mobile, and backend solutions for high-scale streaming and digital platforms. Strong track record in solution design, code reviews, engineering leadership, AWS infrastructure, DevOps, observability, release management, and production support.
Work experience
Technical lead for frontends (Web and Leanback), involved in mobile apps to ensure product consistency across platforms. Lead solution implementation design with Architecture, Backend, and Media Engineering teams; document flows and sequence diagrams. Review code implementations, guide delivery, mentor engineers, perform reviews and maintain infrastructure.
Consulted at Multichoice within the Connected Video team focusing on the DStv Now website, migrated on-prem Connect website from ASP.NET WebForms to .NET Core, documented systems.
Part of the team that rewrote Bidvest’s banking system on top of the .NET Stack. Mentored junior developers and contributed to quality improvements.
Built shared business-layer services for DStv Online products, developed RESTful services, maintained MongoDB, and supported deployment of public APIs.
Member of the Digiquill division; experienced traditional Waterfall Project Management methodology and worked on big projects like Edcon Group and South African Tourism.
Designed, developed, and maintained web applications and databases using Microsoft technologies; managed hosting and deployments.
Worked on a Microsoft Dynamics NAV project; built a patient statement closely resembling the previous system.
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