Experience

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  Salt Pay

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
    • London, England, United Kingdom

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  BlueNova

  • Somerset West Area, South Africa

  • Electrical Software Engineer

    • Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
    • Somerset West Area, South Africa

    Remote monitoring and over-the-air firmware updating software for high-current lithium-polymer (LiFeYPO₄) batteries using Raspberry Pi Zero and STM32 MCUs.

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  Wallfly

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Inventor & Lead Engineer

    • Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Music brings order and chaos; revitalizes the soul. Be heard with Wallfly: a revolutionary smart volume control system that ensures perfect levels at your next event.

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  Telemetrics

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Founder

    • Dec 2014 - Aug 2020
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Fix your "No Answer" problem with Telemetrics automated mystery dialler to gather internal retail call analytics.

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  JaSure

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Interim CTO

    • Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Named the company. Collaborated with Hanno van Zyl (Hanno.co.za) to establish striking corporate identity. Prototyped an on-demand insurance platform backed by Clojure & Datomic, exposed via React Native app. Published internal test app to Apple App Store.

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  WeFix Repair Specialists

  • South Africa
  • Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Chief Technology Officer

    • Dec 2015 - Jul 2017

    Wrote the software that runs the business, which was acquired by weFix. It handles stock, repairs, logistics, accounting, forecasting, customer notifications. In my role I oversaw the development of greenfield systems to unify a solution to the corporate/franchise complexity.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Jun 2007 - Nov 2015

    Licensed my software to weFix until it was acquired.

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  MyNames Domain Management (Pty) Ltd

  • Cape Town, South Africa

  • Founder & CEO

    • Jun 2013 - Nov 2016
    • Cape Town, South Africa

    Built and bankrolled a domain registrar from scratch for painless .CO.ZA domain management. Custom EPP implementation in Python with best-in-class domain search.

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  Krit.com

  • Cape Town, South Africa

  • Founder

    • 2011 - 2013
    • Cape Town, South Africa

    Let your customers reach you directly and privately from their phones. I designed and built everything you see and touch on krit.com.

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  Rhythm Online Music Store

  • Lead Web Developer

    • Jun 2006 - Dec 2012

    Everything: Digital purchases and downloads. Shopping cart. Credit card transactions. Design. Database management. Sysadmin.

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  wiWallet

  • Embedded Developer (Contractor)

    • Oct 2010 - Nov 2010

    Implemented a protocol state machine to handle proprietary a wiWallet XML transaction protocol in C++ to run on Windows CE and Windows XP point-of-sales systems.

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  wiWallet

  • Stellenbosch

  • Embedded Developer (Contractor)

    • Aug 2008 - Sep 2008
    • Stellenbosch

    Implemented proprietary XML protocol over TCP/IP + SSL on Windows CE using a state machine.