The Forge
Capability proven, not claimed.
Every spark, a chapter.
The Augmented Engineer
Senior Software Developer
Coolblue
Rotterdam, Netherlands
At one of the Benelux’s largest e-commerce companies I build customer-facing systems in Node and Next.js — as a fully AI-augmented engineer. Claude, GPT, Gemini, Glean and Copilot are part of my daily toolchain, from architecture and code to reviews, docs, and admin.
- Build and scale customer-facing commerce systems in Node.js & Next.js
- Pioneered an AI-augmented workflow spanning the entire development lifecycle
- Use AI end to end — architecture, code generation, refactoring, review, tests, debugging & docs
- Lean on Glean for instant org-wide knowledge retrieval and LLMs to automate admin & reporting
- Treat AI copilots as pair-programmers, not crutches — shipping faster and cleaner
The Architect
Senior Software Engineer
MRI Software
Cape Town, South Africa
My architect era. At a global property-tech leader I directed software projects, set the architecture, and led a team delivering high-priority systems on time — mentoring a generation of junior engineers into the craft along the way.
- Directed high-priority software projects end to end, delivering on aggressive timelines
- Owned software design & architecture for mission-critical property-tech systems
- Led and mentored a team of engineers, levelling juniors up into confident seniors
- Made automation, accurate estimation & Cypress test coverage a team-wide discipline
- Shipped on .NET, Node & Django with Angular/React on Azure
Into the Deep End
Senior Backend Developer
SYW.io
Cape Town, South Africa
A focused backend chapter in Cape Town. I went deep on data — designing optimised databases, building efficient modules, and wiring resilient storage and integration layers the front-end teams could build on without friction.
- Engineered high-performance backend modules and database-optimised services
- Designed resilient data-storage & integration layers consumed by every front-end team
- Cut endpoint and query latency through relentless database optimisation
- Delivered across PHP, Django & Node with GraphQL APIs
Commerce & Armour
Software Engineer
Orca Deco
Lusaka, Zambia
I owned the technical health of the company’s e-commerce platforms and point-of-sale systems end to end — commissioning, optimisation, and security — and became the bridge between engineering, business, and QA.
- Led technical operations for the e-commerce and POS platforms end to end
- Hardened platform security to best-practice standards on every release
- Served as the single technical contact across engineering, functional & test teams
- Delivered polyglot systems — PHP, Java/Kotlin & C# — on Google Cloud + Kubernetes
The First Forge
Senior Software Developer
Xquizit Media
Lusaka, Zambia
Where the craft was forged. Across four years I went from shipping features to orchestrating large-scale deployments and building the engineering team that carried the company — learning every layer from PHP to Python, Angular to React.
- Orchestrated efficient, large-scale software deployments across the product suite
- Built and led a standout team of engineers that boosted the whole organisation’s output
- Authored the troubleshooting playbook & knowledge base the support org still runs on
- Shipped full-stack — PHP (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter), Python, Node, Angular & React
Where the hammer falls hardest.
25 tools, one craftsman.
Languages, runtimes, and platforms reached for over eleven years — chosen for the job, never for the hype.
AI copilots — in daily rotation
At Coolblue I work as an AI-augmented engineer — from architecture, code, refactoring, reviews and tests to docs, knowledge retrieval, and admin. AI is a force-multiplier on everything I ship, not a crutch.
B.Eng. · Computer Engineering
DMI-St. Eugene University
Lusaka, Zambia · Jan 2016 – Dec 2019
Diploma · Computer Systems Engineering
Evelyn Hone College
Lusaka, Zambia · Dec 2012 – Dec 2014
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