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Yamkela Venfolo

Cape Town

Summary

Results-driven Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying high-performance, scalable, and secure applications across cloud-native and on-premises environments. Skilled in full-stack software development, cloud computing, and DevOps practices, with proven expertise in building distributed systems, designing APIs, and automating CI/CD pipelines. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, reliable, and business-aligned software solutions.


Recognized for strong problem-solving, leadership, and mentoring abilities, driving engineering excellence and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Experienced in working with modern technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, microservices architecture, and infrastructure as code. Passionate about leveraging technology to optimize performance, reduce costs, and deliver customer value at scale.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

FNB Ghana - Contract (Entelect)
01.2025 - Current
  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.
  • Drive infrastructure as code (IaC) with AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
  • Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment automation.
  • Design, deploy, and manage EKS.
  • Build standardized Helm chart and GitOps pipelines (Argo CD).

Senior Software Engineer

Standard Bank - Contract (Entelect)
11.2022 - 12.2024
  • Extend out-of-the-box code base configuration from Backbase.
  • Design and write customizable Java backend features on top of the Backbase platform.
  • Analyze and architecture new features from business.
  • Mentor junior developers from the team.
  • Deploy new features.
  • Technologies used: Java, YAML, Spring Framework (Maven), JUnit, Mockito, Log4J, XML, JSON, Docker

Intermediate Software Engineer

Vodacom - Contract (Entelect)
08.2020 - 11.2022
  • Write scalable Java backend code for our Vodapay app on top of Alibaba sister the company Ant group framework called Sofa Boot.
  • Analyze architecture and write PRDs additions for feature.
  • On-board new merchants being added to the platform.
  • Provide architecture design that the customer wants to implement.
  • Write specs to be developed by other developers.
  • Technologies used: Java, YAML, Spring Framework (Maven), JUnit, Mockito, Log4J, XML, JSON, Sofa Boot

Software Engineer

Electrum Payments
01.2019 - 07.2020
  • I am responsible for building enterprise payments technology to mobile network operators, retailers, and financial institutions.
  • I am a backend Software Engineer using Java to build high-performance platforms that enables our customers to process billions of transactions per year with 99 % availability.
  • Provide design for architecture that customer wants to implement.
  • Write specs to develop by other developers.
  • Technologies used: Java, YAML, Spring Framework (Maven), CircleCI, JUnit, Mockito, Log4J, XML, JSON

Graduate Software Engineer

Kurtosys System
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • Performed full stack development using technologies such as Rest API, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, NODE JS and React to design and build interactive UI
  • Performed Quality Assurance on the projects that have gone live.
  • Technologies used: Rest API, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, NODE JS and React Native

Intern Software Engineer

A2D24
11.2017 - 12.2017
  • I performed full stack development using a variety of different technologies.
  • Technologies used: Rest API, HTML, CSS, Python, Django framework, Angular JS and Django

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Cape Town
Cape Town
12-2018

Skills

  • Seven years of experience in Java
  • Five years of microservices and API experience
  • Seven years of experience in software development life cycle
  • Expertise in scalable software solutions
  • Four years of hands-on AWS experience
  • Docker proficiency
  • Jira project management
  • Experience with queuing technologies
  • Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript

Certification

  • Amazon Web Services Developer Engineer - Associate
  • Alipay -10x1000 Tech for Inclusion Program

Resume of Yamkela Venfolo

  • Gender: Male
  • Age: 30
  • Nationality: South African
  • ID Number: 9507315645080
  • EE Status: Black
  • Location: Tableview, Cape Town
  • Transport/Licence: Yes
  • Availability: 30 Days

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

FNB Ghana - Contract (Entelect)
01.2025 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Standard Bank - Contract (Entelect)
11.2022 - 12.2024

Intermediate Software Engineer

Vodacom - Contract (Entelect)
08.2020 - 11.2022

Software Engineer

Electrum Payments
01.2019 - 07.2020

Graduate Software Engineer

Kurtosys System
01.2018 - 12.2018

Intern Software Engineer

A2D24
11.2017 - 12.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Cape Town

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