City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Specialising in technical execution and strategic management, I have successfully founded, staffed and led multiple teams while delivering complex AI, blockchain, and cloud solutions. I understand how engineering decisions affect the bottom line. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/jkthysse
As the founder of Thysse SA (PTY) Ltd, a diversified structure has been established that integrates technology, talent solutions, and community upliftment under one corporate umbrella. Achievements: Designed and implemented a multi-division corporate structure to support business units and divisions. Structured governance frameworks securing long-term succession planning and global investor alignment. Developed the Thysse Group SPV platform to enable project-level partnerships with investors and external agencies. Built international networks for trade and investment across Africa, Europe, Asia, and the UK. https://www.linktr.ee/thysse-za
Delivered cloud, DevOps, and AI consulting services across multiple international clients in finance, logistics, retail, blockchain, and technology sectors. Designed and implemented automated testing, QA frameworks, and CI/CD, embedding reproducibility, performance validation, and security compliance into software delivery lifecycles. Built and managed containerized and cloud-native environments on AWS, Azure, and GCP, including Kubernetes-based deployments for scalable AI, blockchain, and data systems. Developed and optimized data pipelines, ETL processes, and analytics platforms, with measurable improvements in data accuracy, reporting reliability, and system performance. Acted as team lead and advisor for client engineering functions, establishing DevOps, SRE, and IaC practices, and coaching teams on modern cloud engineering standards. Partnered with C-level executives and stakeholders to define operability strategies, risk management processes, and reporting frameworks for AI and distributed systems. Conducted performance testing, infrastructure validation, and automated remediation, ensuring mission-critical services were deployment-ready and resilient. Authored technical documentation, governance reports, and architectural recommendations guiding enterprise adoption of AI, DevOps, and Blockchain platforms.
Built and configured AI prototype environments, enabling reproducible model testing and deployment readiness. Conducted QA-driven data accuracy assessment of Power BI reporting for Value Logistics; initiated 3 sprint cycles for remediation. Developed containerized test environments for AI recruitment platform, integrated automated deployments, orchestration, and unit testing. Authored comprehensive report with recommendations for improving AI system stability and environment management.
Placed at John Lewis Partnership, UK. Designed and executed Gatling performance tests for GCP migration, validating infrastructure readiness for AI/data workloads. Delivered Terraform IaC to automate reproducible test environments for various services. Embedded QA validation into Azure DevOps pipelines for cloud-hosted ML applications. Technologies: Java, Gatling, Python, GCP, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.
Integrated SpecFlow, Selenium, and Catalon into CI/CD pipelines for automated testing of data services. Led load, regression, and performance testing of hybrid cloud systems. Delivered automated deployment pipelines for data applications. Technologies: Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Gherkin, Cucumber, SpecFlow, TestRail, Postman, Kubernetes, MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
Applied TDD in modernizing on-prem LAMP stack to Azure Cloud, ensuring QA coverage of migrated data-driven applications. Responsible for information system environments and continuous delivery of cross platform applications to distributed teams leveraging cloud technologies and backed by modern multi-tiered development and support strategies which enable the reliable delivery of first class software to a multinational audience in a professional, efficient and continual manner. Systems development, support and documentation for a telecoms group using PHP / C# / Java technologies delivered by full stack, distributed development teams using Agile methodologies and Test Driven Development principles.
Lead back-end developer, working mostly in PHP, MySQL and jQuery while using AJAX and JSON for integration. Tasked with ERP consolidation, merging 13 regional ERP systems into one national platform. Validated API and database integrations during large-scale migration. Responsibilities included over-seeing API, CMS and framework development as well as graphic design and front-end development using Photoshop, HTML5, CSS3 & Bootstrap on public facing projects.
Lead PHP development and general web project management included delegation, quality control, monitoring and reporting on workload for other team members. Client Liaison, Interpretation of project briefs and guidance in compiling a brief. Technical web support. Plesk panel server management including domain & web-space creation, FTP account management, MYSQL database administration and development, setting up applications like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. Backing up of sites and source data. Interspire online marketing campaign creation and development. Flash Animation. SEO, Social Network Integration, eCommerce solutions, custom widget development, business facing web-based solutions.