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Work Experience
Software Engineering Team Lead
2023 – present · 3 yrs
Mukuru
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I lead a dynamic team at Mukuru comprising 3 software engineers and 1 QA engineer. Our primary
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focus is on developing new features and maintaining a legacy PHP monolith, coded in Kohana.
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Collaborating closely with the Product Owner and a Business Analyst, we meticulously plan our work for
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upcoming sprints.
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In conjunction with the Scrum Master, I ensure the team consistently delivers and meets sprint goals.
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This involves conducting thorough code
Senior Lead Developer
2019 – 2023 · 4 yrs
Payfast
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I architected and lead the building of the PayFast merchant dashboard, which included the
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authentication and authorisation layers as well. Recently upgrading some of our micro services from
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Laravel 5 and 6 to v9 as well as our websocket server to Node 16.
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'm responsible for code deployments of the various micro services to the staging and production
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environments using CICD with gitlab pipelines. I've also helped maintain our development docker
Technical Team Lead
2017 – 2019 · 2 yrs
EDGE Education
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OOP PHP
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Laravel
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Angular 4+
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Javascript, CSS, Html
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MySQL
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GiT
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Docker (production and dev)
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CI/CD with Jenkins, Rancher and BitBucket Pipelines
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Scrum and Kanban Agile workflows (in Jira)
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Project planning and documentation
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Ubuntu, phpStorm, webStorm, Linux CLI
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Server management and setup
Full Stack Web Developer
2008 – 2018 · 10 yrs
OpenTech Solutions
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Scope of work included:
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* Freelance work provided through platforms like PeoplePerHour [pph.me/php_developer]
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* Custom web solutions for Gutsy Green [www.gutsygreen.co.za], Rising Star Awards
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[www.risingstar.co.za], Do It 4 Charity [www.doit4charity.co.za], Harper and Toms
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[www.harperandtoms.co.uk]
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* Clients ZooMedia [www.zoomedia.co.za]
Skills
Frontend Development
Angular, Vue, Vue.js, AJAX, JavaScript
Backend Development
PHP, Server-side JavaScript, Laravel, OOP
DevOps & CI/CD
CI/CD, Docker
Tools & Software
Git, Github
Cloud & Infrastructure
Ubuntu
Availability & Preferences
Hours per week
20-40 hours
Education
Certificate · Computeach International Ltd. · 2007 – 2008
CompTiA A+ IT certification · Computeach International Ltd. · 2007 – 2008
College · Boland College · 2005 – 2006
Financial Management · Boland College · 2005 – 2006
Advanced Level · Hoërskool Dirkie Uys · 2000 – 2001
High School Diploma · Smuts Malan High; Primary and High School · 1991 – 1998
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