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OracleDirector of Software Engineering
Oct. 2025City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaContinuing my journey to transform the software industry through cutting-edge AI tooling — redefining what’s possible in healthcare applications by raising the bar for intelligence, safety, and real-world impact.
OracleSnr. Software Development Manager
Mar. 2021 - Oct. 2025Primary Role
Engineering Leader; areas of people, product and service management within various greenfield and existing products. Responsible for product feature planning, delivery & maintenance. Value areas
Delivering business value via the following areas: .People Management
- Team Structuring of around 8-12 headcount within a larger organization
- Team Expansion through Hiring, Promotions
- Individual Contributor Growth through Coaching & Development
.Product Development
- Manage all engineering aspects of a product
- Systems Architecture through Business alignment & Stakeholder engagement
- Feature Delivery through Engineering management
- Product Maintenance through Operational Excellence Other Notable Skills
Effective, Efficient & Constructive communication skills (written & verbal) across different stakeholders and audiences: .Engineering
- Building & communicating Engineering Roadmaps
- Establishing & improving development processes
- Collaborating over high value Product and Developer User Experiences
- Collaborating and driving Service Architecture & Design decisions
.People
- Driving Hiring, Performance evaluations, Compensation reviews
.Product
- Driving internal stakeholder communications
- Representing teams in Business/Roadmap Reviews
Amazon Web ServicesSoftware Development Manager
Oct. 2015 - Oct. 2019Joined the AWS EC2 Control Plane Platform (CPP) organisation and led various engineering teams during this period. The role included the end to end responsibilities of managing a business (combinations of C- roles). Responsible and accountable for all aspects of running a business Recruiting and Performance Management, Product ownership, Project and Operations Management. The role involved engaging and reporting to various levels of leadership as required. Managed and promoted SDEs up to the Senior SDE level. Directly managed up to 12 engineers across ~15 production systems. Largest systems were the EC2 API Web Service, Cache Service and EC2 Tags service. Key contributor in developing and communicating the CPP organisations identity, purpose and services. Provided technical support throughout project life cycles including design, implementation, and delivery of scalable software. Direct contribution to launching at least 4 major public EC2 product feature launches and supported numerous others. Actively managed the strategic direction of engineering teams and ensured that team goals were always aligned with that of the broader organisation. Provided engineers with daily coaching and mentoring in developing their goals and being more happy and effective in their deliveries.
Mr DeliveryDevelopment Manager
Apr. 2015 - Sep. 2015Reported to the CTO. Initially responsible for both Mr Delivery Courier & Mr Delivery Food engineering teams. The Food systems had not received sufficient investment prior, they were outdated and operationally highly unstable. Worked with engineers, Technical Project Manager and the Head of Business to stabilize daily operations and put together a roadmap plan for rebuilding the stack from the ground up. Introduced basic monitoring (New Relic), which helped identify and resolve major inefficiencies in the system. Developed the high-level architecture and migration plan that would guide the build of the new stack. It was modelled on distributed microservices architecture and a mobile first development approach along with RESTful APIs. Built python scripts to automate infrastructure provisioning in AWS. It allowed Dev, Pre-Prod & Prod to be spun up or torn down automatically. This served as a proof of concept to explore the costs of AWS, as an anchor point for learning AWS technology and an initial cost saving function in day to day development.
Naspers LimitedSolutions Architect
Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2015Joined the MIH group and got the opportunity to be part of a massive re-architecture programme for the largest retail website; the Amazon of South Africa. Part of the 5-member team of senior engineers that seeded the project. Thereafter moved into a tech lead role as a Solutions Architect. Led and managed the kalahari.com Buyer engineering team (~4-6 engineers). Responsible for the development and maintenance of the entire Buying experience on the website. Daily activities included designing and developing software, recruiting engineers and on-boarding new team members. Regularly worked with other teams like Marketing, Product managers, Business analysts, UX designers and Customer support. Received 2 formal promotions during this time going from Senior Developer to Tech Lead and finally to Solutions Architect.
kalahari.comSenior Software Engineer
Jan. 2008 - Mar. 2011Moved to Cape Town to take on a 4-month engineer contract based at kalahari.net offices. Started a greenfield project and successfully led and managed 2 other engineers to help deliver it. Upon completion we moved into a broader engineering team where I regularly took on leadership tasks to help grow and coordinate work in my team. Day to day tasks involved all aspects of a Technical & Project Lead role.
3fifteenSoftware Developer
Dec. 2006 - Jul. 2008Joined 3fifteen, a software consulting company after graduating from the Microsoft Graduate Academy. Grew my software development skills set in Microsoft technologies during this time. Transitioned into the Senior Engineer role around 2008 and led projects as an engineering consultant based at client offices.
MicrosoftGraduate Trainee
Jan. 2006 - Jul. 2006
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