Experience

FoondaMate

• United States
• E-learning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder, CEO/CTO at Foondamate

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  Remote FoondaMate helps students access quality study material and knowledge quickly and affordably using AI on WhatsApp. We build chatbots that bring quality study material and curated internet search to messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Our goal is to help the 300M+ students currently unable to use the internet to study, or struggling to find useful information, access the information they need to succeed. Over 1 million students use FoondaMate as a… Show more FoondaMate helps students access quality study material and knowledge quickly and affordably using AI on WhatsApp. We build chatbots that bring quality study material and curated internet search to messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Our goal is to help the 300M+ students currently unable to use the internet to study, or struggling to find useful information, access the information they need to succeed. Over 1 million students use FoondaMate as a WhatsApp/Messenger contact (study buddy) to help them with homework and prepare for tests. Show less



XX

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• The New Normal Cohort

  • Feb 2021 - Apr 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area



ninety9cents

• South Africa
• Advertising Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Full Stack Engineer

  • Dec 2019 - Jan 2021

  Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 99cents is an advertising agency headquartered in Cape Town. At 99cents I was part of a 4-person development team at its infancy that was driving digital innovation at the agency. As the only backend developer I built and maintained all our backend systems for our internal tools and tools used by clients, as well as automated and maintained all our deployment pipelines.



Monetise E-commerce

• Full Stack Developer

  • Jan 2017 - Nov 2019

  Cape Town Area, South Africa Monetise is an eCommerce agency based in Cape Town. At Monetise I developed and maintained online stores powered by Magento, an Open Source PHP MVC based eCommerce framework, as well as worked closely with the COO to put together proposals, quotes and project scopes and project plans. My key technical responsibilities were setting up Magento, customising the default backend functionality to meet the functional specification, customising the frontend to meet the design… Show more Monetise is an eCommerce agency based in Cape Town. At Monetise I developed and maintained online stores powered by Magento, an Open Source PHP MVC based eCommerce framework, as well as worked closely with the COO to put together proposals, quotes and project scopes and project plans. My key technical responsibilities were setting up Magento, customising the default backend functionality to meet the functional specification, customising the frontend to meet the design specification, automating product migrations from previous platforms to Magento or from stock management systems to Magento, migrating products from Magento 1 to Magento 2, enhancing the default Magento theme user experience, developing internal Magento modules , developing internal WooCommerce modules, installing and configuring third party Magento modules and developing internal Magento modules. Monetise did not have an appointed Senior Developer, I was a de facto Senior Developer. This translated into working closely with the COO to compile quotes and proposals for clients and to scope projects. It also required interfacing with clients and managing client relations. I wrote manuals for client training and trained clients to manage their shops. My stack at Monsetise was PHP, Symfony, Python, Magento, WooCommerce, HTML, Javascript and Jquery. I built: https://timberland.co.za, https://orms.co.za, https://trudiamonds.com, https://shoptoms.co.za, https://jansport.co.za, https://inksaver.co.za, Show less



Lumico (Pty) Ltd

• South Africa
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern Web Applications Developer

  • Oct 2016 - Nov 2016

  Cape Town This was an internship I did during the Fees Must Fall protests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeesMustFall) while the university was shut down. My role entailed creating and maintaining websites using HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery, Wordpress and PHP . I also built as well as helped maintain custom Wordpress plugins.



University of Cape Town

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Front Desk Assistant

  • Feb 2015 - Nov 2015

  Cape Town Area, South Africa This was a student Job at Kopano residence where I stayed in my first and second year at the University of Cape Town. As a student front desk assistant, I communicated messages to the house through the intercom, coordinated the signing in and out of guests, managed access control and acted as a liaison between students and Sub wardens.