Quest log
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Engineering Manager
Derivco, Cape TownJune 2024 to present
Leads the team responsible for the Ledger and Bonus systems in a highly-regulated, highly-available, high-demand environment.
- Joined as Senior SDET; promoted to Engineering Manager in May 2025
- Previously led the team responsible for the Player Account Management product
- Over 100 billion requests at 99.99% uptime every month
- Compliant with EU GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC1
- Keep the people motivated and the path clear
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Senior Software Engineer, Project Lead
Entelect, Cape TownApril 2022 to May 2024
Consulting arc. Technical expertise, leadership and stakeholder management for eBay Mexico, Adevinta, FNZ UK and MunichRe.
- Acting team lead for eBay Mexico, Adevinta and FNZ UK
- Project lead at MunichRe: team lead and senior engineer in one
- Four fifths of the time hands-on, mostly in insurance
Senior Software Developer, Technical Lead
Derivco, DurbanJanuary 2015 to March 2022
Act 1. Technical lead in the Quickfire BackOffice department: large-scale campaign creation and tracking tools, four teams of thirty people across four locations.
- Production tester, then developer, then technical lead
- Founded the Campaign Manager Design Board
- Wrote the strategies: branching, test-first automation, monitoring, feature flags
Managing Editor
EGMRFebruary 2011 to December 2015
The Prologue, the games-media arc. Reviews, columns, podcasts, press badges, and a newly discovered passion for writing, occasionally reignited through freelancing side-quests through the rest of the story.
