02 — Curriculum Vitae
A career,
in full.
Download CV (PDF)A decade in fullstack engineering — from junior dev to founder of a small studio. The complete record below: profile, experience, projects, skills, and education. Prefer a file? The PDF carries the same detail.
Profile
As a senior software engineer dedicated to collaboration and personal growth, I tackle complex challenges with patience and creativity. Driven by curiosity and a readiness for constructive feedback, I thrive in dynamic environments and naturally step into leadership roles. My mission is to deliver impactful solutions aligned with business goals, leveraging my skills to foster growth and success while continuously advancing my expertise.
Experience
2024 — Now
Founder & Senior Software Engineer
Tri2b (Pty) Ltd
Solo studio building fullstack products for clients and side experiments. Laravel + Inertia front-of-house, self-managed Kubernetes cluster behind the scenes.
Oct 2024 — Dec 2025
Senior Software Engineer
Baobab Web Services
Contract engineering for BWS and its client portfolio. Primary project: RE/MAX hub — a Laravel + React property management platform — plus supporting services including a Laravel public site and an AWS Lambda listing-description agent (LangGraph + Gemini).
2019 — 2024
Senior Software Engineer
MOHARA Ventures, Cape Town
Five years across a wide range of greenfield and brownfield products — IoT pipelines, fintech microservices, data warehousing, housing platforms. Led projects end-to-end, mentored junior engineers, and collaborated with distributed teams across five countries.
Jun — Oct 2019
Temporary Junior Lecturer
North-West University, Potchefstroom
Co-lectured the C for Engineers module alongside an M.Sc. student. Set and graded assignments and exams, and mentored a cohort of engineering undergraduates through foundational programming concepts.
Selected Projects
2024 — present
PARAMOS
Architect & Technical Lead
Multi-tenant SaaS for workspace and subcontractor management — Laravel + Inertia + React on GCP Cloud Run, fully isolated per-tenant databases, Typesense search, all infrastructure in Terraform.
2026 — present
RE/MAX
Lead Software Engineer
Three-part platform for RE/MAX South Africa: a Laravel + React property management hub, a Next.js public search portal, and an AWS Lambda AI listing-description agent (LangGraph + Gemini with vision and tool-calling).
2024 — present
Synapse Notes
Solo build
Multi-tenant knowledge API that decomposes notes into atomic, vector-indexed parts via LLM. Go + pgvector on PostgreSQL, REST + MCP + OAuth 2.1, deployed on self-hosted Kubernetes.
2023 — present
Projects
Solo build
Distributed task coordination service for agent workflows — projects, tasks, and subtasks with dependency edges and gRPC work-leasing. pctl CLI, Bubble Tea TUI, and MCP skill integration.
2023 — 2024
Go-Places
Lead Software Engineer
Unified marketplace dashboard consolidating sales, inventory, and traffic data from Amazon, TikTok Shop, and others into an AWS Redshift warehouse with QuickSight on top. Serverless TypeScript on Lambda, Terraform-managed.
2022 — 2023
EVO
Senior Software Engineer
Housing maintenance platform connecting owners, tenants, and contractors. Led the zero-downtime migration of the monolith to GCP Cloud Run, rebuilt auth and invoicing, and shipped a Next.js tenant site.
2021 — 2022
Kikapay
Software Engineer
Open banking payment facilitator generating secure EFT links so vendors never store credentials. Python gRPC microservices on Kubernetes; worked across payment execution and webhook delivery with retry/back-off.
2019 — 2021
EMSOL
Junior Software Engineer
IoT air quality monitoring for construction sites — edge devices stream readings over MQTT to AWS IoT Core for threshold-based compliance alerting, with a React dashboard for live and historical data.
Earlier work: Valinor Intelligence · Stoa · SML · Triga
Skills
Backend
LaravelPHPGoNode.jsPythongRPCMCPREST
Frontend
ReactNext.jsVueInertia.jsTypeScriptTailwind
Data
PostgreSQLMySQLRedispgvectorTypesenseMongoDBDynamoDB
Cloud
AWSGCPKubernetesTerraformDocker
Practice
ArchitectureTech leadershipMentorshipCode review
Education & Languages
Education
Hons. B.Sc. Computer Science — North-West University (2017)B.Sc. Computer Science — North-West University (2014 – 2016)
North-West University (2017)
North-West University (2014 – 2016)
Languages
Afrikaans (native)English (proficient)
References
available on request
Availability
Open to contractsRemote · CAT