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Work Experience

• Mobile Development Lead (Consultant), African Giant Consulting (Client: Delivery.com)

  Sep, 2024 - Present

  Lead mobile engineer for a high-volume delivery platform, focusing on stability and architecture.

  • Led the critical migration of the core mobile framework, successfully upgrading React Native from 0.69.8 to 0.79.1, ensuring compatibility and future-proofing the application.

  • Diagnosed and resolved critical stability issues, achieving an 8% reduction in iOS crash rates through deep-dive debugging and performance tuning.

  • Managed feature implementation and release cycles across both Android and iOS platforms, ensuring seamless OTA updates and store compliance, utilizing OTA tool experience with CodePush.

• Owner & Lead Consultant, Datawave Solutions

  Nov, 2025 - Present

  Founded a software consultancy. Directing technical strategy and proposal development for medium to large-scale projects.

• Senior Software Engineer, ShopriteX

  Nov, 2021 - Aug, 20242 years 10 months

  Led technical teams for the Sixty60 product, an award-winning on-demand grocery delivery app.

  • Investigated production issues and delegated tasks across backend, frontend, and mobile teams to ensure high availability.

  • Researched and implemented new features and solutions to optimize mobile clients for scale.

  • Successfully integrated Firebase Analytics for Mobile.

  • Key tools utilized: React-Native, Android SDK, and iOS framework.

• Product Engineering Specialist, Absa Group

  Mar, 2021 - Nov, 20219 months

  Served as a Senior Android Engineer on a feature-rich digital insurance product.

  • Built secure, real-time banking features using a native Android tech stack (Java, Kotlin, XML, JSON).

  • Collaborated within an agile team to deliver motor, building, and all-risk cover solutions.

• Full Stack Engineer / Mobile Engineer, Platform45

  Nov, 2019 - Feb, 20211 year 4 months

  I was a full stack engineer and mobile engineer at Platform45.

  • Created mobile clients (iOS and Android) using Flutter, delivering efficient training experiences for a client based on the edX platform.

  • Developed a treasury and billing system for a major ticketing company using Ruby on Rails.

• Android Team Lead, Zapper South Africa

  Mar, 2016 - Oct, 20193 years 8 months

  Led the Android team for the Zapper Mobile Wallet, a digital payment product used in Europe, LATAM, and the UK.

  • Oversaw research and development, third-party integrations, and production support.

  • Managed Play Store deployments and monitored crash analytics via Fabric/Firebase.

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