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Jessica Dlamini

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Director of Engineering at Crest Data · Web frontends · web performance, GraphQL

Works at
Crest Data
Location
Cape Town, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
Experience
15+ years experience
Education
Obafemi Awolowo University
Languages
English, Afrikaans, German
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

18 years in software engineering, the last 5 at Crest Data, where I lead the web team. Led the move of 116 screens to a shared React component library. Grew the web team from 4 to 18 engineers. Before that: Vodacom and Dangote Group. Most at home with Next.js and web performance.

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Skills
GraphQLweb performanceCSSNext.js
HiringHiring for a role
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Hiring a backend engineer for the web team - Cape Town

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$180k-$213k
Team
Web, 9 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with Next.js Production experience with GraphQL Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $196k-$306k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Cape Town, South Africagraphqlnext.jsweb performance
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Crest Data · 4 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 475ms to 102ms.
    • Built the experimentation framework 15 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2018 - Dec 2021
    Vodacom · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Reduced cloud spend on web by 28% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 5.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
    Dangote Group · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Wrote the GraphQL service that now handles 40 million requests a day.
  4. Senior Frontend Engineer
    Nov 2013 - Oct 2016
    Vodacom · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Reduced cloud spend on web by 27% in two quarters.
  5. Senior Frontend Engineer
    Jan 2012 - Nov 2013
    Takealot · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Cut the main bundle by 51% and got LCP under 2.6 seconds.

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Education

  1. Obafemi Awolowo University
    BSc, Information Technology
    2004 - 2008

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