Elmer Botha

Digital Integration Manager at Old Mutual iWYZE
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Gauteng, South Africa, ZA
Languages
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Afrikaans Full professional proficiency

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Credentials

  • Azure DevOps First Look
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Azure Serverless Computing
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • DevOps Foundations: Accelerating Continuous Delivery in the Enterprise
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Agile Software Development
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • DevOps Foundations: Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Leadership in Tech
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
    Amazon Web Services
    Aug, 2017
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Old Mutual iWYZE
    • South Africa
    • Insurance
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Digital Integration Manager
      • Jun 2020 - Present

      As Custodian of IWyze Integration Layer, my responsibility is seamless integration of 50+ systems and services, internal and external, via Wyze Technical Functions (WTF). WTF forms the foundation of IWyze infrastructure, handling numerous API transactions daily, from generating policy documents to partner API endpoints. The plug-and-play approach enables rapid integration with vendors. Ensuring robustness and reliability, WTF serves as critical backbone for transactions. Maintaining a healthy and stable integration layer is crucial, with zero tolerance for downtime. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Streamlined logging and monitoring by migrating logs from ELK stack to DataDog, enhancing visibility for non-technical users. Replacing Dynatrace with DataDog led to 80% cost savings without compromising monitoring capabilities. DataDog's ease of setup improved integration efficiency and configuration of alerting and monitoring. • Optimized DevOps processes with daily deploys and zero downtime, improving service delivery and customer experience while eliminating overtime. • Led migration of on-premises insurance solution (TIA) to AWS, achieving up to 500% performance increase and cost savings. Gain full infrastructure visibility for monitoring purposes. • Introduced pair programming, resulting in fewer bugs, knowledge sharing, accountability, and faster code turnaround. Boosted team morale and improved coding processes and software changes. • Managed migration of CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions/ECR/ECS, containerizing servers and applications for faster deployments. Enhanced visibility with Slack notifications and JIRA integration. • Oversaw migration of monolith JAVA integration layer to AWS Lambda and API Gateway, leveraging Lambda layers for scalability, reusability, and maintainability. Achieved cost savings and improved application performance. https://stackshare.io/elmerIWyze/elmer Show less

  • CuraWiz Custom Software Solutions
    • Contracting and Consulting Years
      • Mar 2002 - Present

      KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Founded and manage software consultancy, delivering sustainable solutions for businesses | Design and implement client technical brief for non-regulated fund distributions to creditors | Designed and implemented flexible Microservices API architecture to accommodate increased transactions and support business expansion without compromising existing interfaces | Successfully integrated acquired debt control management system into payment distribution engine, driving significant company profit growth | Rapidly resolved issue by integrating JD Edwards web services into Excel, streamlining data exchange and saving up to R250,000. Developed user-friendly diary and project management applications, seamlessly integrating databases. | Delivered consultancy in Solutions Architecture, Business Analysis, Project Management, and Software Development, driving efficiency gains such as reducing reporting time from 30 days to 1 day NOTABLE CLIENTS Multotech Engineering, NPDA (National Payment Distribution Agency), Eskom Show less

Education

  • Alfa e-Learning
    RabbitMQ : Messaging with Java, Spring Boot And Spring MVC
    2020 - 2020
  • David Bombal CCIE #11023
    The Complete Networking Fundamentals Course
    2020 - 2020
  • Dilip S Technology Enthusiast, Online Instructor
    Build Reactive RESTFul APIs using Spring Boot/Webflux
    2020 - 2020
  • in28Minutes Official
    Master Microservices with Spring Booth and Spring Cloud
    2020 - 2020
  • Ali Rizavi - Web Technologist & Software Engineer
    DevOps: CI/CD using AWS CodePipeline & Elastic Beanstalk
    2019 - 2020
  • CIO Academy
    IT Leadership: Succeeding in the CTO/CIO IT Director Role
    2019 - 2020
  • Stephen Grider - Engineering Architect
    Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide
    2019 - 2020
  • TetraNoodle Team
    DevOps with AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins and AWS CodeDeploy
    2019 - 2020
  • BOUALI Ali - Leader technique Java/JEE
    Mastering Swagger Framework with Spring Boot
    2019 - 2019
  • John Thompson - Spring Framework Guru
    Testing Spring Boot: Beginner to Guru
    2019 - 2019
  • Sergey Kargopolov
    Spring Boot Microservices and Spring Cloud
    2018 - 2019
  • Cloud Guru
    AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification
    2017 - 2017
  • Pretoria Technikon
    Diploma
    1993 - 1996

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