Experience

Advance.io

• South Africa
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer Team Lead

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Served as one of the Team leads for 3 projects, including UP (TuksSport, TuksParking, CEMS and Oncology), Vetbox and Faurecia. I also Provided Support for MTN.My responsibilities were:- Consulting on the Projects.- Providing Training to Interns/Juniors.- Migration of the Applications to the cloud.- Developing Products and fixing bugs on live systems.- Building customer relations.- Monitoring systems, Implementing Change requests and being on-call/standby for MTN.

• Junior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - May 2022

  Responsibilities / Accomplishments:- Provide General support on MTN, Vetbox and UP (TuksSport. TuksParking, CEMS and Oncology) as well as implemented enhancements and bug fixes- Was tasked to develop the new MTN Console



EPI-USE Labs

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Team Leader (Capstone Project)

  • May 2020 - Oct 2020

  Our Clients at EPI-USE Labs tasked us (Team Sigma, a group of 5 students for our COS-301 final year Capstone Project) with designing a Home Security System called Argus. Argus is a multi-platform web application capable of instantly identifying threats on multiple camera feeds around a one's home whilst also notifying them in real time either via Email or SMS of any potential threats picked up by the system. As a constraint, our clients wanted us to run the the facial detection on a Raspberry Pi. This ensured that if a new home owner came along wanting to use the web application, he/she would only be required to purchase a Raspberry Pi along with "X" number of Camera's to set up around his/her home. Argus relies solely on open source software and is loosely coupled so that any component of the system could be replaced relatively easily if so desired. Finally, Argus was built using a Role-based access control approach thus depending on the user's permissions (Admin/Advanced/Basic) he/she would have more or less capabilities grated by the system. We as Team Sigma accomplished all of this using an Agile methodology with daily stand-ups and biweekly sprints. Link: https://github.com/COS301-SE-2020/Home-Security-System Show less



University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor

  • Feb 2020 - Jul 2020

  Java Data Structures and Algorithms (COS-212) As a Tutor I was tasked with marking, setting up practical assignments, consultations and my personal favourite, giving 2-hours lectures every week. Tutoring gave me a lot of confidence when it came to public speaking especially in front of large groups of people. I designed my own presentations and was always open to criticism as anything I could do to improve would only benefit the students that I was so eager to teach. Java Data Structures and Algorithms (COS-212) As a Tutor I was tasked with marking, setting up practical assignments, consultations and my personal favourite, giving 2-hours lectures every week. Tutoring gave me a lot of confidence when it came to public speaking especially in front of large groups of people. I designed my own presentations and was always open to criticism as anything I could do to improve would only benefit the students that I was so eager to teach.



Cut and Craft Artisan Bistro

• Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Waiter

  • Dec 2018 - Feb 2019

  Holiday work. Working as a Waiter taught me many people skills especially when it came to dealing with customers and how to correctly handle conflict whilst simultaneously working towards an agreeable solution which would still meet the customer’s needs. Another valuable lesson I learned was how to push through and keep my head up even under pressure, this has also helped me during my studies with time management when it came to meeting deadlines. Holiday work. Working as a Waiter taught me many people skills especially when it came to dealing with customers and how to correctly handle conflict whilst simultaneously working towards an agreeable solution which would still meet the customer’s needs. Another valuable lesson I learned was how to push through and keep my head up even under pressure, this has also helped me during my studies with time management when it came to meeting deadlines.