City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Experienced System Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry with a strong interest in business domains. Skilled Software Architecture, Integrations, Software Development and DevOps practices. Strong engineering professional with a Bsc (Hons) IT: Computer Science focused in Computer Science from University of Pretoria.
Heading up the FNB Corporate Banking portfolios which include International Trade, Global Liquidity Management, Settlement and Swift, and Custodial Services. I am also deeply involved in FNB Integration's target capabilities and architecture. This includes the architecture and standards for API X initiative which extends to a public API capability. In addition I have been consulting widely within CBA on various subjects including but not limited to integration patterns and practices, DevOps, Microservices vs Monoliths, Scaling strategies, high availability, design patterns and software architecture.
Conceptualized, designed and built a custom taxi cab application for the South African market. Platform fully deployed via "single click" using CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. Scalability and platform growth was core to the solution and has been sold off to major corporates as a base realtime location tracking platform.
Responsible for the International Trade portfolio. Responsibility includes solution architecture, technical architecture and integration architecture of the replacement systems.
Contracted to Standard Bank Corporate Transactional Services I was involved in customer to bank integration concerns, general payment concerns and internal integration concerns.
Contracted to SITA and worked on various aspects of the Integrated Financial Management System. The system was intended to create better transparency for financial concerns in the Government.
Conceptualised, designed, implemented, delivered and supported a prototype Chat Bot Platform for MTN.