Senior Software Engineer

My journey as a software developer began at university. I had a passion for video games and that was my motivator. "I want to learn how to make games" I said. A few years later I have this amazing skill to develop software applications and of course I also know how to make games.  
 
After school I began working for Discovery Ltd as a software developer. During this time, I acquired a lot of skills within the development lifecycle. I have worked on developing microservices using spring boot and maven. These services are consumed by the mobile clients. I also worked on the Android application which has more than a million downloads on the play store. I designed, created and released applications onto the play store, owning the full development lifecycle. I owned the development of mobile apps with maintainable and robust architectures such as MVP and MVi. Integrating third party libraries (Facebook, Uber and Cambridge Mobile Telematics) into apps. 
I went on to work on a multinational application called Clearscore Ltd where I improved the user acquisition and engagement. Using node.js, I integrated the web and mobile apps with restful API's in a distributed system. Monitoring tools such as Amplitude and Signal FX enabled me to track the performance of the new features and API's I released.

The next step was the bank. Standard Bank Ltd is where my ownership and technical leadership began to develop. I owned the Android portion of the business lending digital process. Through my delivery I enabled business clients to take out revolving loans and overdrafts. Using the MVVM architecture and jetpack compose to build resilient features that bring in millions (ZAR) in revenue on a monthly basis. 

In a nutshell, I am a problem solver and the software is just a tool. If the problem needs new tools, I can adapt and bring the new tools in. For example, I worked on a project which had no architecture and I had to learn a new architecture and implement it in the project. I began as a .NET developer making web apps and I have grown into a Java and Kotlin software engineer. Therefore, It's not about the tools, it's about the solution.