Pieter Mokoena

Overview

18 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Backed 52 founders at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 3 boards. Before that: FirstRand and Vodacom. Chess on lunch breaks.

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Experience

1. Angel Investor

   May 2024 - Present
   Independent · 2 yr 5 mo · Contract · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Led or co-led 14 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Sit on 2 boards.
2. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2022 - May 2024
   FirstRand · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 4.
3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
   Vodacom · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Principal Engineer

   Sep 2018 - Nov 2020
   Dangote Group · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Sit on 7 boards.
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
5. Software Engineer

   Aug 2015 - Sep 2018
   Moniepoint · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 38 a week to 1.
   • Shipped 19 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.

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Education

1. Lagos Business School

   MBA, Business Administration
   2009 - 2011
2. University of Cape Town

   BSc, Computer Science
   2004 - 2008