Eleven years, on the record.
Eleven years, five chapters, three countries. The same record as the PDF — but alive, and told the way a smith would tell it.
Every spark, a chapter.
The Augmented Engineer
Senior Software Developer
Coolblue
Rotterdam, Netherlands
At one of the Benelux’s largest e-commerce companies I build customer-facing systems in Node and Next.js — as a fully AI-augmented engineer. Claude, GPT, Gemini, Glean and Copilot are part of my daily toolchain, from architecture and code to reviews, docs, and admin.
- Build and scale customer-facing commerce systems in Node.js & Next.js
- Pioneered an AI-augmented workflow spanning the entire development lifecycle
- Use AI end to end — architecture, code generation, refactoring, review, tests, debugging & docs
- Lean on Glean for instant org-wide knowledge retrieval and LLMs to automate admin & reporting
- Treat AI copilots as pair-programmers, not crutches — shipping faster and cleaner
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The Architect
Senior Software Engineer
MRI Software
Cape Town, South Africa
My architect era. At a global property-tech leader I directed software projects, set the architecture, and led a team delivering high-priority systems on time — mentoring a generation of junior engineers into the craft along the way.
- Directed high-priority software projects end to end, delivering on aggressive timelines
- Owned software design & architecture for mission-critical property-tech systems
- Led and mentored a team of engineers, levelling juniors up into confident seniors
- Made automation, accurate estimation & Cypress test coverage a team-wide discipline
- Shipped on .NET, Node & Django with Angular/React on Azure
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Into the Deep End
Senior Backend Developer
SYW.io
Cape Town, South Africa
A focused backend chapter in Cape Town. I went deep on data — designing optimised databases, building efficient modules, and wiring resilient storage and integration layers the front-end teams could build on without friction.
- Engineered high-performance backend modules and database-optimised services
- Designed resilient data-storage & integration layers consumed by every front-end team
- Cut endpoint and query latency through relentless database optimisation
- Delivered across PHP, Django & Node with GraphQL APIs
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Commerce & Armour
Software Engineer
Orca Deco
Lusaka, Zambia
I owned the technical health of the company’s e-commerce platforms and point-of-sale systems end to end — commissioning, optimisation, and security — and became the bridge between engineering, business, and QA.
- Led technical operations for the e-commerce and POS platforms end to end
- Hardened platform security to best-practice standards on every release
- Served as the single technical contact across engineering, functional & test teams
- Delivered polyglot systems — PHP, Java/Kotlin & C# — on Google Cloud + Kubernetes
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The First Forge
Senior Software Developer
Xquizit Media
Lusaka, Zambia
Where the craft was forged. Across four years I went from shipping features to orchestrating large-scale deployments and building the engineering team that carried the company — learning every layer from PHP to Python, Angular to React.
- Orchestrated efficient, large-scale software deployments across the product suite
- Built and led a standout team of engineers that boosted the whole organisation’s output
- Authored the troubleshooting playbook & knowledge base the support org still runs on
- Shipped full-stack — PHP (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter), Python, Node, Angular & React
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Education
B.Eng. · Computer Engineering
DMI-St. Eugene University
Lusaka, Zambia
Diploma · Computer Systems Engineering
Evelyn Hone College
Lusaka, Zambia
The record is open. So is the door.
Senior full-stack engineering, AI-augmented, shipped across three countries and eleven years. If your team is building something worth forging, the anvil is warm.