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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

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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

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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

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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]