Gian Geyser
Cape Town
Summary
Lead Software Developer with proven track record in team leadership, technical excellence, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Expertise in managing complex development tasks, supporting team members, driving standardization for code quality and system reliability, and cultivating strong stakeholder relationships. Committed to enhancing developer efficiency through creation of tools, automation frameworks, and templates to streamline development processes and minimize obstacles.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Developer Lead
Agile Bridge (Abacus Mercedes-Benz)
07.2022 - Current
- Lead solution and feature design to deliver high-performance, scalable systems across multiple international markets.
- Drive system integrations with internal and external teams, ensuring alignment and seamless data flow.
- Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders, QA, and development teams to ensure requirements are met and expectations are managed.
- Mentor and onboard new developers, fostering team growth and maintaining technical standards.
- Championed testing frameworks and developer tools, reducing run support demand from 50% to 25% of team capacity.
- Refactored market seeding and core system logic, enhancing reliability, maintainability, and performance.
- Led successful launch and hyper-care of the Portuguese market, ensuring stability and stakeholder satisfaction post go-live.
Software Developer
Agile Bridge (MPW)
01.2022 - 06.2022
- System design and development for a part distributor integrating with motor insurance companies.
- Cloud administrator for Azure cloud environment.
- Developed a performant daily bulk import to pull in millions of rows of data, including validation and matching algorithms to align multiple suppliers in under 10min.
Software Developer
HealthCloud
01.2021 - 12.2021
- Maintaining a health scoring system for insurance integrations.
- Creating an integration application with various medical devices for on premises health check-ups for Discovery.
Education
BIT -
University of Pretoria
Pretoria01.2021
Skills
- Full-stack development
- Problem-solving
- Object-oriented programming
- Testing and debugging
- Code review and refactoring
- Test automation
- Microservices architecture
- RESTful services
- Code Generation Tools
- Programming languages: C#, net, Python, Javascript, Java
- Machine learning: Ollama, TensorFlow, LangChain, MCP servers, RAG
- Front-end frameworks: Angular, Blazor, Htmx
Certification
- Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft, 2023
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft, 2024
SPOKEN LANGUAGES
English - Fluent
Afrikaans - Fluent
Timeline
Software Developer Lead
Agile Bridge (Abacus Mercedes-Benz)
07.2022 - Current
Software Developer
Agile Bridge (MPW)
01.2022 - 06.2022
Software Developer
HealthCloud
01.2021 - 12.2021
BIT -
University of Pretoria
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