Gauteng, South Africa
Experienced Digital Integration Manager with a proven track record of driving innovation and delivering results. With over 21 years of experience (3-year hiatus running my own signage business), as a software consultant and recent leadership at IWyze, I excel in problem-solving and fostering collaboration. Skilled in streamlining processes, implementing cutting-edge technologies, and guiding teams to achieve their full potential. My passion lies in creating adaptable solutions that add lasting value to businesses in today's fast-paced world. Known for my ability to balance technical expertise with business needs, I thrive in dynamic environments where accountability, efficiency, and team growth are paramount. Ready to take on new challenges and inspire teams towards greater success.
As Custodian of IWyze Integration Layer, my responsibility is seamless integration of 50+ systems and services, internal and external, via Wyze Technical Functions (WTF). WTF forms the foundation of IWyze infrastructure, handling numerous API transactions daily, from generating policy documents to partner API endpoints. The plug-and-play approach enables rapid integration with vendors. Ensuring robustness and reliability, WTF serves as critical backbone for transactions. Maintaining a healthy and stable integration layer is crucial, with zero tolerance for downtime. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Streamlined logging and monitoring by migrating logs from ELK stack to DataDog, enhancing visibility for non-technical users. Replacing Dynatrace with DataDog led to 80% cost savings without compromising monitoring capabilities. DataDog's ease of setup improved integration efficiency and configuration of alerting and monitoring. • Optimized DevOps processes with daily deploys and zero downtime, improving service delivery and customer experience while eliminating overtime. • Led migration of on-premises insurance solution (TIA) to AWS, achieving up to 500% performance increase and cost savings. Gain full infrastructure visibility for monitoring purposes. • Introduced pair programming, resulting in fewer bugs, knowledge sharing, accountability, and faster code turnaround. Boosted team morale and improved coding processes and software changes. • Managed migration of CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions/ECR/ECS, containerizing servers and applications for faster deployments. Enhanced visibility with Slack notifications and JIRA integration. • Oversaw migration of monolith JAVA integration layer to AWS Lambda and API Gateway, leveraging Lambda layers for scalability, reusability, and maintainability. Achieved cost savings and improved application performance. https://stackshare.io/elmerIWyze/elmer
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Founded and manage software consultancy, delivering sustainable solutions for businesses | Design and implement client technical brief for non-regulated fund distributions to creditors | Designed and implemented flexible Microservices API architecture to accommodate increased transactions and support business expansion without compromising existing interfaces | Successfully integrated acquired debt control management system into payment distribution engine, driving significant company profit growth | Rapidly resolved issue by integrating JD Edwards web services into Excel, streamlining data exchange and saving up to R250,000. Developed user-friendly diary and project management applications, seamlessly integrating databases. | Delivered consultancy in Solutions Architecture, Business Analysis, Project Management, and Software Development, driving efficiency gains such as reducing reporting time from 30 days to 1 day NOTABLE CLIENTS Multotech Engineering, NPDA (National Payment Distribution Agency), Eskom