Experience

DraftWise
• Design Services
• Avid Technologist

  • May 2023 - Present


Open Source

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Open Source Enthusiast

  • Feb 2009 - Present

  Taught a group of young people Java, HTML and JavaScript. Decided a game would be a good way to for them to learn relevant skills. Designing and building a free open-source multiplayer in-browser tank game using: - ES6 - BabylonJS - SpringBoot It has also given me an opportunity to mentor younger programmers. The game can be found on GitHub https://github.com/team142/gg Taught a group of young people Java, HTML and JavaScript. Decided a game would be a good way to for them to learn relevant skills. Designing and building a free open-source multiplayer in-browser tank game using: - ES6 - BabylonJS - SpringBoot It has also given me an opportunity to mentor younger programmers. The game can be found on GitHub https://github.com/team142/gg



Zapata Computing, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Engineer

  • Jun 2022 - Jan 2023

  Served as a Staff Engineer at Zapata Computing, a quantum computing software company based in Boston, MA. - Technical leadership: provided technical leadership and guidance to other engineers. Also included designing systems, reviewing code (occasionally one-on-one) and mentoring. - Design & architecture: larger-scale design & architecture. Working closely with other staff engineers to design the overall system architecture and worked with engineers to see designs implemented. - Product/engineering alignment: Met regularly with product leadership to negotiate and shape requirements. Managed capacity and delivery expectations. - Product: regular contributor to product design and decisions, providing insight and bringing experience to the product space. - Process improvement: often contributed to negotiating and modifying the engineering (and sometimes other areas) process. Identifying areas that need optimization. - Mentorship & sponsorship: mentoring engineers and providing growth opportunities through sponsorship. - Recruitment & hiring: Conduct technical interviews to help evaluate candidates. - Glue: serving as glue between various parts of the organization or between Engineering & other parts of the organization (legal, product, business development, to name a few). - Compliance: contributed, (and led engineering aspects of) bringing the company into alignment with SOC2 and ISO specifications. - Problem solving: investigating challenging problems and providing viable paths forward. Technologies: Go, Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, Azure, NodeJS, ReactJS Show less



WesBank

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Architect

  • Oct 2018 - May 2022

  Responsible for the design and roadmap of the Kubernetes platform. In-house SME for containerization and cloud-native concerns. The key here was aligning the platform roadmap to the First Rand Group's strategy to exploit the benefits we could realize over our legacy infrastructure.Trained multiple teams of various functions in all things Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, infrastructure-as-code, tracing, logging, metrics, and alarms. This is an ongoing transformation journey. Teams are at different points in their journeys. Served in a leadership position for the First Rand Group Container Forum. The Container Forum sets standards for both containerization and Kubernetes for the First Rand Group. Much of what connects to the Kubernetes ecosystem is also discussed and codified here.Served in a leadership position for the First Rand Group API transformation journey and API platform committee.Served in a consulting capacity to assist with Kubernetes and Cloud-Native efforts across the First Rand Group.Served as Technical Architect on numerous projects. This included work that involved a customer-facing dynamic (industry) disruptive digital loan application platform, Enterprise Content Management, a mobile app, POPI, fraud checks, loan management systems, credit scoring, records management, and many others.Lead the technical aspects of our group hackathon (300+ participants) each year from 2014 to 2019.Seconded to Group IT Audit to audit software vendors supplying the bank.Served on various security standards committees across the First Rand Group.The technologies I worked with while serving in this role include various Go, Javascript, Azure, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Longhorn, RKE, RHEL, Prometheus, Grafana, Rancher Management Server, Loki, GlusterFS, ZFS, OpenJDK, OpenJ9, .NET Core, SpringBoot, AWS EC2, EBS, ELB, SNS, SQS, Dynamo, Aurora, S3 and many many more. Show less

• Emerging Technology Specialist

  • Jun 2016 - Oct 2018

  Served as an emerging technology specialist to the Chief Digital Officer. Leadership sought to exploit emerging technologies & our team made that happen. I considered the challenges faced by various parts of bank and introduced various technologies, often novel, solve these challenges.Being appointed to leadership at the bank was an enormous responsibility and I learned a great deal from working with closely executives.---Languages: Go, Java, Javascript (ES6), NodeJS, Typescript, SQLPractices: clean code, CICD, agile, lean, release early, release oftenCloud Technologies (Azure): Container service (Kubernetes), Cloud-Native Storage, Cloud functions, App Service, Virtual Machines, Virtual networks, Load, Failover within region, SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, Bot Framework, LUIS AI, Azure Search Service & Cognitive Services.Cloud Technologies (AWS): EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, Lambda, RDS, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, API, IAM & CognitoOther: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Zipkin, Grafana & RabbitMQFrameworks: Angular, Spring, SpringBoot Show less

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jul 2014 - Feb 2018

  Various integration projects, web applications & internal applications.Built a highly scalable, transactionally safe, parallel, content solution key reducing to customer on-boarding time.



CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• SIG Contributor

  • Apr 2019 - Feb 2020

  Served in the Kubernetes Architecture SIG

• SIG Contributor

  • Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

  Served in the Technical Debt subcommittee for the Kubernetes Architecture SIG



ITQ Business Solutions (pty) Ltd

• South Africa
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Jul 2014 - Feb 2018

  Served as a senior consultant for ITQ Business Solutions at WesBank a Division of FirstRand Bank. Served as a senior consultant for ITQ Business Solutions at WesBank a Division of FirstRand Bank.



iFactory Consulting

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Consultant

  • Nov 2010 - Jun 2014

  - Led design and implementation of company time sheet system. - Led design and implementation of company equipment & inventory management system. - Extended existing systems to support report pack generation. - Documented existing environment (network diagrams, high-level architecture & assigned system business/technical owners). - Build out team, designed, gathered requirements and led implementation of tax system for SARS. The system processed R1B+ each year. 300+ tables, 50+ pages, thousands of users. Perfect uptime. Technical experience --- Languages: Java 6, later 7, Javascript, PLSQL, Oracle Database 11g R2, Oracle NoSQL, Derby DB, MySQL Integration: XML, JSON, JMS, BPEL Front end: JQuery, CSS, HTML Suites & Frameworks: Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework), Various JEE, Oracle Webcenter Content Show less