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Sicelinhlanhla Vilakazi

Intermediate Software Engineer
Midrand

Summary

Driven by results, I leveraged my expertise in API Integration and fostered a culture of continuous learning at Liberty, enhancing product capabilities and workflow efficiency. My background includes implementing Docker and Azure solutions, significantly reducing system downtime, and championing agile methodologies, showcasing my technical guidance and innovative problem-solving skills.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Intermediate Software Engineer

Liberty
07.2024 - Current
  • Provided technical guidance to junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning within the team.
  • Stayed up-to-date with emerging technologies, implementing innovative solutions to enhance product capabilities.
  • Championed agile methodologies within the team to improve workflow efficiency and adaptability in response to changing priorities or requirements.
  • Implemented automated testing tools for increased efficiency in detecting bugs and other errors during development cycles.
  • Reduced system downtime with proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of issues.
  • Participated in regular sprint planning sessions, ensuring alignment between project goals and engineering resources available.
  • Conducted thorough code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.

Intermediate Software Engineer

DVT
07.2024 - Current
  • Contributed to a positive work environment by actively participating in team-building activities and fostering open communication channels among colleagues.
  • Provided technical guidance to junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning within the team.
  • Stayed up-to-date with emerging technologies, implementing innovative solutions to enhance product capabilities.
  • Championed agile methodologies within the team to improve workflow efficiency and adaptability in response to changing priorities or requirements.
  • Implemented automated testing tools for increased efficiency in detecting bugs and other errors during development cycles.

Junior Software Developer

Liberty (pty) Ltd
08.2023 - 06.2024

created and improved logical functionality to enable users to follow up on their savings on the stash by liberty app. bug fxing and app maintanance. unit and automation testing.

Junior Software Engineer

DVT
02.2022 - 06.2024
  • Work in an agile scrum team delivering sprint-based solutions from sprint ceremonies including sprint planning, tech sessions, demos, and retrospection
  • Development of web APIs projects using .net 6
  • Development of MVC applications
  • Implementing CQRS and Domain Driven Development
  • Development of Blazor WASM application
  • Development of Blazor Server application using an existing API
  • Implementation and understanding of CORS for Blazor
  • Building of a complete working API with JWT security added
  • Building of a complete Front-end application using Blazor
  • Being comfortable to participate in team working initiatives such as knowledge sharing, presentations and paired programming
  • Utilized azure Services like Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Azure SignalR, Azure Redis Cache, Azure AD, Azure DevOps, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines. Application Insights

Junior Software Engineer

Ecentric Solutions
08.2022 - 08.2023

Worked on an automation testing project using a framework called WebdriverIO, project used JavaScript to read from an excel sheet and perform testing on the hosted payment page (HPP) which simulated online payment transactions for existing or new cards. this was a 2 man team project to perform such tasks. created postman collection scripts for API endpoint testing which included writing tests to determine if a task was completed successfully or there is an issue that needs attention, worked on minor bug fxing for API responses (touching on .net WCF source node projects). New additional features for using a different online payment method which involved creation of new database tables, stored procedures and database functions, proxy generation for accessing database stored procedures using data stores, creation of source node projects including WCF methods generally called via postman collections( these are called workers) minor stored procedure testing using stored procedures as unit tests.

Junior Software Developer

Astel Systems
01.2020 - 02.2022
  • API development and testing using Soap.UI and postman.
  • .Net Framework development.
  • .Net Core development.
  • Fixing bugs from the testing team.
  • Design work for new product features (screen designs and database structures).
  • Development of new product features.
  • TSQL development.
  • Building and designing reports using SSRS.
  • Ensuring effcient project performance, by doing Asynchronous programming.

Junior Software Developer

Allentec Pty LTD
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Develop in house projects using C#, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript.
  • Database Design work.
  • Design work for new projects from clients.
  • Web designs using HTML, CSS, and bootstrap.
  • Web designs using WordPress.

Education

Diploma in ICT in Applications Development - Information Technology

Durban University of Technology
Durban
04.2001 -

Skills

API Integration

Code Review Expertise

Machine learning basics

System Architecture

Docker

C#

ASP Net

Blazor

SQL

Azure

HTML

JavaScript

Angular

Timeline

Intermediate Software Engineer

Liberty
07.2024 - Current

Intermediate Software Engineer

DVT
07.2024 - Current

Junior Software Developer

Liberty (pty) Ltd
08.2023 - 06.2024

Junior Software Engineer

Ecentric Solutions
08.2022 - 08.2023

Junior Software Engineer

DVT
02.2022 - 06.2024

Junior Software Developer

Astel Systems
01.2020 - 02.2022

Junior Software Developer

Allentec Pty LTD
01.2019 - 01.2020

Diploma in ICT in Applications Development - Information Technology

Durban University of Technology
04.2001 -
Sicelinhlanhla VilakaziIntermediate Software Engineer