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Name
Location
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Career Start Date
Highest Qualification
Field of Study
Institution
Completion Date
Undergrad
Job Titles
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Employment Type

Candidate ZA002

Pretoria

12
2013
Bachelor's Degree
Computer Science
University of Pretoria
2013
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Senior Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer
Rust, Blockchain, Ethereum, Go, PHP, Kubernetes
150000
Permanent
Experience
RnD, blockchain & talent acquisition company
Senior Software Engineer
Remote working from SA, company based in San Fran USA
4 years, 5 months (2022 - 2026)
- Protocol Engineering: Lead contributor to a high-value trustless bridge (~$200M ATH TVL), managing the full lifecycle from initial development to mainnet deployment.

- Cross-Chain Infrastructure: Specialized in Ethereum light client integration on Substrate-based parachains and maintaining protocol alignment with Ethereum hard-forks.

- Full-Stack Technical Ownership: Executes end-to-end feature implementation ranging from React-based UIs to on-chain Substrate code and Polkadot SDK contributions.

- Ecosystem Leadership: Active member of the Polkadot Technical Fellowship, providing high-level technical governance and ongoing "on-call" protocol maintenance.
Domain registry and web hosting, a global leader (Company 2)
Senior Software Engineer
Remote working from SA
1 year 11 months (2020 - 2022)
- Built, maintained and deployed APIs used by the three different platforms
- iOS, Android and Web, Go, Kotlin, Spring Boot, GCP, Kubernetes.
Application for social media content creation (Company 3)
Backend Software Engineer
Remote
7 months (2019 - 2020)
- Mobile and web app for content creation
- Go, MySQL, GCP, Kubernetes, API’s

Reason for leaving: Company 3 acquired by company 2
Software Consultancy specialized in telecom and air transport
Principal Software Engineer
Promoted to Principal Engineer 2018, Senior Engineer 2016
Johannesburg
6 years, 1 month (2013 - 2019)
- API Strategy & Standards: Expert in API architecture and design principles, specifically focused
on transforming businesses into Digital Service Providers. Contributed to global industry standards for REST API programs.

- Product Leadership: Served as Product Owner for a subscription billing platform; managed the full product lifecycle, including feature definition and strategic roadmap development.

- Engineering Mentorship: Actively mentored engineering teams on technical skills and professional development.

- Operational Excellence: Played a key role in defining and implementing organizational engineering best practices and process improvements.
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