Snr Web Dev

July 2023 - December 2023

Focused on building intuitive Vue and Vanilla components at Metabolic. Working with their exceptional UX team, transforming creative concepts into functional and engaging user interfaces. Implementing third-party libraries and ensuring any additional web components were fast and efficient.

"Adaptable" - Logan Grimsley
  Frontend Architect @Metabolic

Snr Web Dev

June 2022 - April 2023

Contributed to modernising the frontend of Inside Guide, with a focus on mobile web performance metrics, specifically Core Web Vitals. Smaller projects included various feature enhancements to ooba, an acccommodation portal and frontend maintenance.

"Versatile" - Joshua Adonis
  Lead Developer @Signpost

Snr Web Dev

Jan 2022 - June 2022

LightSpeed is a team of remote developers overseeing an impressive list of clients. I focused on upgrades, feature enhancements and maintenance on the frontend incorporating Sass and modern build tooling. The team focused exclusively on Wordpress and it's associated ecosystems.

"Dependable" - Warwick Booth
  Lead Developer @LightSpeed

Snr Web Dev + Dsgn

June 2020 - June 2021

Design and development of high-fidelity prototypes for Media Monkeys. Proposing UX and UI enhancements for one of their clients, we proposed a series of static screens which morphed into a semi-functional PWA. Technical Documentation, Maintenance, Mentoring and DevOps formed part of the domain of responsibilities.

"Indispensible" - Ighsaan Robinson
  Owner @MediaMonkeys

Snr Web Dev

March 2020 - May 2020

Improving the overall cohesiveness of the UX/UI of SMS Portal's core client-facing application, powered by a JAM'ish stack, based on MDB's Vue implementation. Focused on developing high-fidelity prototypes to demo improvements as well as continual system maintenance.

"Blown Away" - Brett Skinner
  Dev Lead @SMSPortal

Snr Web Dev

June 2018 - December 2018

Retrofitting uniformity to the user experience & underlying interface of CMA's market analysis application. Tasked with modernizing the Frontend experience and spent a huge chunk of time developing working prototypes to showcase potential UX or UI enhancements.

"Resourceful" - Owen Chakauya
  Developer @CMA

Snr Web Dev

January 2018 - June 2018

A mixture of custom Javascript and Wordpress templates for Imagemakers. Developed using Vue/NUXT and talking to a headless Wordpress CMS. Using analytics and user feedback as a guide, work began on prototyping fully functional layouts, forms, navigational elements & menus as the starting point. Once stress-tested and approved, the components were composed into templates and retrofitted with the overall visual strategy.

via - Anton Spaun
 Owner @Imagemakers

Lecturer

September 2017 - December 2018

Contracted by CodeSpace to Lecture at Life Choices. The opportunity to shape young, tech-savvy minds is something that pays in bucketloads. When you stop selling the industry and start sharing insights, you get a chance to equip eager minds not only with skills for software development, but also the soft skills missing from many development environments across the planet.

"Positive & Knowledgeable" - Stefan Louw
  Founder @CodeSpace

Snr Web Dev

June 2016 - June 2017

Frontend maintenance of Sanlam's Online Investing portal. Updating style guides and providing customisation for the white-labelled version of their application. CSS & JS support for Augmento, running their own custom Ruby on Rails application. Unboxed Cape Town is a production house managed from London.

"Adaptable" - Carlo Kruger
  Development Manager @Unboxed

Snr Web Dev + Dsgn

January 2016 - May 2016

Still boasting a modern feel after many years. Completely coded from scratch, this custom design and development for Project One Love feels almost timeless.

Snr Web Dev

August 2014 - December 2015

Improving the UX of client websites and responsible for anything and everything on the Frontend. Lightspeed is a Wordpress house that operate as a distributed team, working mainly within the hospitality industry.

"Team Player" - Ashley Shaw
  Owner @Lightspeed