Work History
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Work history
UpStack
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
2022 - Present (3 years)
Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.
Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.
Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.
GoDaddy
Technical Manager (Software Development)
2019 - 2022 (3 years)
Built and executed new workflow services, customizable content templates and email rendering pipelines for customer campaigns within GoDaddy.
Developed and implemented a React-based content compser with a real-time dependency loader on the project.
Led GoDaddy's platform team to design and release a social content management service on the platform.
ThymeBase
CTO
2019 - Present (6 years)
Designed, developed and implemented technical solutions for Thymebase from inception to commercialization.
Manage budgets, set priorities and strategize technology investments in concert with business development and engineering needs.
Partner with the dev team to identify, assess and advance technical upgrades to existing products supporting efforts within Thymebase.
GoDaddy
Senior Software Developer
2014 - 2019 (5 years)
Supervised EOL processes and tasks for a legacy product and migrated customers to a new platform.
Participated in full integration activities for MadMimi into GoDaddy email marketing - maintaining accounts and billing services.
Led rollout processes and tasks for GDPR compliance on two products and implemented the shared header microservice for customers.
Mad Mimi
Lead Developer
2010 - 2014 (4 years)
New York, United States of America
Provided product lifecycle management expertise within Mad Mimi - iterating new features and managing releases.
Offered ongoing product support on different products for Mad Mimi - addressing bugs and providing fixes to technical debts.
Wrote and deployed clean code for UI and backend solutions and implemented new features to enhance existing products.
Norclippet
Software Developer
2005 - 2010 (5 years)
Designed, built, and maintained efficient and reliable software solutions and backend services on projects.
Designed and maintained data storage solutions and handled the integration of user-facing elements with server-side logic.
Implemented best practices of behaviour-driven development and ensured coding standards on solutions.
Showcase
CTO - Thymebase
ThymeBase is a platform for managing events, tasks, and details.
It includes a client portal with no account required and collaboration tools.
The project involves overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from design to launch.
Technical Manager (Software Development) - GoDaddy
Led the development team on multiple products and projects within GoDaddy.
Implemented new features, workflow services, customizable content templates, email rendering pipelines, and a translation service tool.
Focused on optimizing existing product capabilities.
Lead Developer - Mad Mimi
Mad Mimi is an online email newsletter creation, sending, sharing, and tracking platform.
It simplifies email marketing for users.
The developer focused on product lifecycle management, feature implementation, and ongoing support.
Education
BSc. Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics & Philosophy
University of Johannesburg
2003 - 2005 (2 years)
B.Eng Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Rand Afrikaans University
2000 - 2002 (2 years)