J. Merwe, IoT Consultant

Experience

Flutter, AWS & IoT Contractor, JB&Kamp Technologies

May 2021 to present
Responsibilities:

• Flutter development
• Python development
• AWS, microservices architecting
• IoT implementation & electronic design
• Leading and management of development teams
• Product ownership & project management

Chief Technology Officer, App Developer Studio

Apr 2020 to Apr 2021
Responsibilities:

• Management of in-house as well as off-shore teams
• Management of project costs and identifying inefficiencies
• Implementation of QA and data protection processes
• Technical documentation i.e. architectural and client proposals
• Align technical strategy with business goals
• Supervise system infrastructure and create standardised, modular code
• Evaluating and implementing new systems and infrastructure, including a profitable hosting division
• Monitor KPI's and IT budgets to assess technological performance
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and stakeholders
• Upskilling team to grow companies' AWS Partner tier
• AWS, GCP, Azure, GitLab, GitLab Pipelines, Firebase (Analytics, Testlab), Microservice Architecture, Serverless, Flutter, Swift, Java, Transactional

Product Manager, FSK Electronics

Dec 2018 to Apr 2020
Responsibilities:

• Product owner of new mobile application
• Management of product lifecycle, interdepartmental cooperation, business development and external suppliers
• Develop iOS & Android applications (Flutter), DevOps Lifecycle (Azure), CI/CD Pipeline (Azure), Testing Strategy, Support Pipelines

Head of Development, ThinkBig Solutions

Mar 2016 to Feb 2019
Responsibilities:

• Innovation of our products and services
• Software development and architecting
• Developed a CAA approved application which is used for weight and balancing of aircrafts
• Setting up project plans and budgets
• Swift, Java, Python, Flutter, MySQL, AWS, REST, Microservices

Software Engineer, HVAC International

Jan 2015 to Mar 2016
Responsibilities:

• Developed a software system that monitor and diagnose servers deployed on multiple locations around South Africa
• C#, PHP, LaTeX

Co-Founder, Skygrid Solutions

Jan 2015 to Dec 2016
Responsibilities:

• SkyGrid focused on developing innovative smart grid solutions serving the domestic market
• With over 1,500 competing teams, our product and business model took us all the way to Denmark as one of the 50 finalists
• Arduino, Adafruit Fona, 2G/3G, Python, circuit design
• Assisting part-time to design a physical gyrocopter simulator
• Circuit design and implementation of microcontrollers and sensor inputs

Education

North-West University, B.Eng (Honours) in Computer Electronic Engineering

ACHIEVEMENTS

Google Student Ambassador

Finalists in University Startup World Cup

Finalists in Airbus BizLab

AEROmobility Competition

3rd place in Accenture's Hackathon