Experience

Mobiquity - EMEA & APAC

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Backend Engineer & Competence Lead

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Senior+ Backend Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Apr 2022

  Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Java Software Engineer

  • Nov 2018 - Jan 2021

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands



African Defence Review

• South Africa
• Media Production

• Director (part time)

  • Oct 2013 - Present

  Johannesburg Specialising in African military and security issues. Appeared on eNCA and gave radio interviews to BBC World Service, Catalunya Radio and others in connection with my research on the ongoing conflict in the Eastern DRC.



FNB South Africa

• South Africa
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Java Developer

  • May 2016 - Nov 2018

  Johannesburg Area, South Africa



DotModus

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tech Team Lead

  • Dec 2014 - Mar 2016

  Johannesburg I worked on a cloud-hosted large-scale customer analytics and search platform for media and telecommunications companies. The system I have helped develop is in production with many terabytes of data per customer and involves heavy use of big data solutions such as Solr for search and indexing and Google's BigQuery and Cloud Dataflow for data processing.



Argility

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Jnr. Tech Lead

  • Jul 2012 - Dec 2014

  Melrose Arch, Johannesburg • Technical lead on merchandising system used by two large retail clients - Responsible for obtaining requirements from client, writing technical specifications and providing detailed development time estimates - Split the system's code base into its own Git repository with its own build structure - Designed and implemented a release process - Implemented SOA-based integrations between the system and three other external third-party systems -… Show more • Technical lead on merchandising system used by two large retail clients - Responsible for obtaining requirements from client, writing technical specifications and providing detailed development time estimates - Split the system's code base into its own Git repository with its own build structure - Designed and implemented a release process - Implemented SOA-based integrations between the system and three other external third-party systems - Upgraded several processes from Struts 1-based workflows to Vaadin-based single-page application • Implemented an automated day-end and month-end process runner, fully configurable via switches and flags • Designed and ran two full stock conversions, one from another system into ours and another from ours into another system

• Java Developer

  • Jan 2008 - Jul 2012

  Johannesburg