Software Engineer

Building reliable systems that scale

Full-stack developer specializing in payments, fintech, and platform engineering. From monoliths to microservices, banking integrations to AI agents — I turn complex requirements into production-ready code.

5+
Years Experience
3
Industries
PCI
DSS Compliant
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Projects

R Sam Tina Mo 3/12 plots planted
NGO Platform

Neighbourhood Farms

Donation platform for an NGO with a gamified "plant a plot" experience. Donors select plots on a visual grid, pay, and see their name appear once payment confirms.

  • Visual plot selection grid
  • Payment-linked progress tracking
  • Donor name display on confirmed plots
  • Donation goal visualisation
Donations Gamification Payments
What are you doing? Select... Meeting Project X 💰 Timesheet 1.5h 2.0h 0.5h Total: 4.0h Kotlin Compose
Desktop App

WUD (What you doing?)

Time tracking app that prompts you at set intervals to log what you're working on. Tag entries by project, role, or billable status, then generate filtered timesheets.

  • Interval-based prompts
  • Flexible tagging system
  • Timesheet generation with filters
  • Migrated from MongoDB Realm to AWS Lambda
Kotlin Compose Multiplatform AWS Lambda
Buyly milk 🥛 Full Cream 2L Checkers R25 🥛 Full Cream 2L Pick n Pay R22 🥛 Full Cream 2L Woolworths R28 Best Price! 🛒 1 🥛 React Native Algolia
Mobile App

Buyly

Grocery tracking app with smart product search and price comparison. Create shopping lists and find the best prices across different stores.

  • Algolia semantic product search
  • Price comparison via web scraping
  • Cross-store best price highlighting
  • iOS and Android support
React Native Kotlin Spring Boot Algolia
Loan Dashboard Payment Schedule Jan Feb Mar Apr May R Aged Analysis Current 30 days 60 days 90+ days Risk Low Export to Xero xero
Web Platform

Loan Accounting

Platform for tracking SME loans — schedule payments, handle early or partial payments, and export reports for accounting systems like Xero.

  • Flexible payment tracking (scheduled + ad-hoc)
  • CSV exports for Xero integration
  • Aged analysis visualisation
  • Risk assessment dashboard
Loan Management CSV Export Xero Integration
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Work Experience

Quote? Provider A R1,250 Provider B R980 Provider C R1,100 ✓ Best Price Recommended: Provider B Save R270/month
2024 — Present

Finist

Head of Product
InsureTech
Kt
🍃
AWS
M
  • Building an InsureTech platform for medical aid and health insurance quoting
  • Integrated multi-provider quoting across different insurance carriers
  • Quote-to-PDF email functionality for broker workflows
  • AI agent integration for answering questions via chat and email
Pay Now 45 min 10 min
2021 — 2024

Lipa Payments

Integration & Delivery Lead
Payments / FinTech
Kt
🍃
AWS
TF
K8s
K
  • White labelling system — reduced setup from 45 to 10 minutes
  • Monolith to microservices migration
  • Multi-tenant database with hard data separation
  • PCI DSS compliance & zero trust network controls
  • Android SDK — reduced integration points from 13 to 3
FNB Banking ⚡ Buy Electricity Prepaid Power 100 ✓ Power Purchased! 100 units added
2020 — 2021

Electrum Payments

Junior Software Engineer
Payments
J
🐳
SQL
  • EasyPay VAS — airtime and electricity via banking apps
  • Capitec Send Cash extended to wallet solution
  • Generic voucher system with reconciliation
  • YAML-based configurable report generation
  • Introduced tech debt programme and weekly demos
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About

I'm an engineer who enjoys the full arc of product development — from whiteboarding architecture with a customer, to writing the Kotlin that makes it work, to watching the dashboards after it ships.

My career has been rooted in payments and fintech. At Electrum I learned how money actually moves in South Africa. At Lipa I helped build a platform from scratch — multi-tenancy, white labelling, PCI compliance, the works. Now at Finist I'm applying that foundation to insurance, combining quote engines with AI agents.

I gravitate toward problems that sit at the intersection of technical complexity and business impact: API design that's secure but developer-friendly, config-driven systems that reduce code changes, integrations that just work.

Education
BSc Hons. Computer Science, UCT
GitHub
LinkedIn
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Technologies

⚙️
Backend
Kotlin Java Spring Boot Node.js Hibernate
🎨
Frontend & Mobile
React Vue.js React Native Android Compose Multiplatform
🗄️
Data
MongoDB PostgreSQL MSSQL MySQL Kafka ELK Stack
☁️
Cloud & DevOps
AWS Azure Docker Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions
🔐
Security
HashiCorp Vault AWS KMS Cognito MS Entra PCI DSS
🔧
Tools & Other
Gradle Helm Harness Firebase Algolia BLE / NFC
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Contact

Let's talk

Whether it's a technical challenge, product strategy, or just a conversation about payments and fintech — I'm always happy to connect.

info@skadush.co.za