Gamuchirai Christopher Chaita
Lead Software Engineer
Germiston,LP
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Product Engineer
ABSA Group Limited
11.2015 - Current
- Designed, implemented and maintained new and existing applications saving the business user up to 5 hours a week and the operations user up to 10 hours a week
- Improved code quality by performing code reviews and testing applications with unit, integration, performance and other tests reducing bugs reported by 70%
- Optimized applications achieving speed improvements of up to 99.9%
- Spearheaded the modernisation and migration 3 projects to new technologies using containers on Kubernetes achieving cost savings of more than 50%
- Persuaded to learn and mentored junior team members, leading to an improvement in their technical skills and productivity saving them up to 1 day a week
- Implemented authentication to enforce confidentiality and limit access in applications to reduce unauthorized access and data leakage to 0
- Improved future resolutions of issues by up to 1 day by documenting problems and their resolution
- Conferred with users to gain their understanding of new implementations and changes to code to suit their needs.
Senior Software Developer
Multichoice
08.2013 - 11.2015
- Built new solutions, integrations and performance improvements and documented processes for new box-office service and implemented them in 7 countries bringing in R20 million in revenue.
Senior Software Developer
CyberPro Consulting
01.2013 - 08.2013
- Implemented reporting generation from Excel/Word template and XML data and created documentation for use in reducing report-creation time from 1 day to under 10 minutes
- Analysed, monitored and improved commercial insurance reports saving more than 25 minutes.
Test Automation Engineer
Multichoice
12.2011 - 12.2012
- Customised and optimised testing third party application improving testing speed by up to 5 days.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer
The i5 Group/PwC Exordia
06.2008 - 12.2011
- Customised by custom libraries and plugins and maintained and created required documentation for Microsoft CRM technologies helping to bring in R10 million in revenue for clients
- Maintained SLA targets for application availability of 4 hours.
Software Developer
DevAesir Pty Ltd
07.2007 - 06.2008
- Built new features, enhancements, documentation and reports for Internet and SMS-based document filing helping reduce the time to submit returns to 1 day and fewer people visiting the offices.
Trainee and Senior Developer
Afrosoft Corporation
05.2002 - 08.2005
- Gathered user requirements, and built and maintained code, documentation and reports for up to 20 existing and new clients.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics (Honours) - Engineering
08.1999 - 05.2004
Certified Developer Associate - AWS
02.2023 - undefined
Certified Solutions Architect Associate - AWS
12.2021 - undefined
Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundation - AWS
12.2021 - undefined
Skills
Object-Oriented Programmingundefined
Timeline
Certified Developer Associate - AWS
02.2023 - undefined
Certified Solutions Architect Associate - AWS
12.2021 - undefined
Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundation - AWS
12.2021 - undefined
Lead Product Engineer
ABSA Group Limited
11.2015 - Current
Senior Software Developer
Multichoice
08.2013 - 11.2015
Senior Software Developer
CyberPro Consulting
01.2013 - 08.2013
Test Automation Engineer
Multichoice
12.2011 - 12.2012
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer
The i5 Group/PwC Exordia
06.2008 - 12.2011
Software Developer
DevAesir Pty Ltd
07.2007 - 06.2008
Trainee and Senior Developer
Afrosoft Corporation
05.2002 - 08.2005
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics (Honours) - Engineering
08.1999 - 05.2004
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