Staff Software Engineer / Core Engineer
📍 Pretoria, South Africa
Software engineer with 12+ years of experience across distributed systems, protocol engineering, blockchain infrastructure, and full-stack development. Core engineer on Snowbridge, a fully trustless cross-chain bridge securing ~$180M TVL. Polkadot Technical Fellowship member (Rank II). Works across on-chain Rust/Substrate, off-chain Go relayers, and React frontends.
Salary
USD 150,000 – 200,000
Snowfork
Jan 2022 — Present
Core engineer on Snowbridge, a fully trustless bridge between Polkadot and Ethereum securing ~$180M TVL. Responsibilities span on-chain protocol development (Rust/Substrate), off-chain Go relayer infrastructure, dApp development (React/TypeScript), and on-call operations. Polkadot Technical Fellowship member (Rank II) since June 2024. Shipped Electra and Fusaka hard-fork upgrades. Halved AWS compute costs. Uses AI-assisted development workflow with Claude and AI agents for security analysis.
GoDaddy (formerly Over)
Aug 2019 — Jan 2022
Key contributor to GoDaddy Studio, a cross-platform design tool. Designed and built backend services handling ~1,000 requests/minute (Go, Kotlin, Spring Boot). Owned deployment, monitoring, and scaling across GCP and AWS (Kubernetes). Contributed to React web app and Angular internal CMS. Joined via GoDaddy's acquisition of Over in 2020 and was promoted twice.
Globetom
Jul 2013 — Jul 2019
Grew from intern to principal engineer over six years at a telecoms software consultancy. Introduced test automation and REST API adoption, led implementation projects with a partner team in Melbourne, managed an outsourced development team. Consulted on API architecture for enterprise clients, contributed to TM Forum Open API program, owned product roadmap for Revenue Weaver billing platform. Mentored engineers on code quality and best practices.
B.IT · Computer Science, Informatics, Information Science (majoring in Computer Science)
2010 – 2013