Andile Nkosi

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Software Engineer at Interswitch · Developer tools · CLI design, compilers

Interswitch
Johannesburg, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
1+ years experience
Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans
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Overview

Currently at Interswitch, where I work on developer tools. Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 32 million requests a day. Most at home with VS Code extensions and Rust. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Skills
compilersCLI designVS Code extensionsRust

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Interswitch · 1 yr · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Moved 90% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 16 a week to 4.

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Education

  1. Stellenbosch University
    BEng, Information Technology
    2021 - 2025

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