Twenty-five years shaping fintech from the ground up — from ISO 8583 message parsing at South Africa's biggest payment network to architecting Kubernetes clusters processing millions of transactions daily. I don't just maintain systems; I build the tools nobody thought to build yet.
Full-stack infrastructure ownership, from a single RDS index to a multi-cluster VPC spanning three AWS regions.
I've spent a career operating at the intersection of reliability engineering and product delivery — the person who owns the pager, writes the runbook, builds the tooling to make the alert go away permanently, and then ships the feature that makes the whole thing faster.
At Shoprite, I manage payment infrastructure that cannot go down. Tens of thousands of POS endpoints. 4,000+ stores. Reconciliation pipelines that must be exact to the cent. The systems I build aren't demos — they're the actual rails that move money through South Africa.