Palesa Pretorius

Software Engineer at Everline Software · C++, RocksDB

Everline Software

Johannesburg, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)

3+ years experience

University of Cape Town

English, Afrikaans, French

Open to work

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Overview

Software Engineer at Everline Software, focused on distributed databases. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 39 a week to 2. Before that: FirstRand and Andela. Most at home with performance engineering and Rust. Learning to draw.

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Roles in distributed databases
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Skills

RocksDBC++performance engineeringconsensusRust

Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Senior Software Engineer roles in public sector tech - Johannesburg or remote

Target roles: Senior Software Engineer
Level: Senior
Industries: AI infrastructure, Fintech
Work mode: Hybrid
Available: Immediately
Work authorization: Authorized to work in South Africa
What I'm looking for: Hands-on work on consensus with room to mentor.
Not interested in: Crypto

3 years in distributed databases. Strongest at Rust and C++. Can start in about six weeks.

Johannesburg, South Africarustrocksdbc++

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Experience

Software Engineer
Nov 2025 - Present
Everline Software · 11 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
- Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 17 million requests a day.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 4.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 20 a week to 2.
Software Engineer
Jun 2024 - Sep 2025
FirstRand · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
- Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 861ms to 112ms.
Software Engineer
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
Andela · 8 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
- Moved 63% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine

2022

Built with performance engineering and RocksDB. 3792 people used it last year.

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Education

University of Cape Town
BSc, Electronics and Communication
2019 - 2023

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