Tshepo VanDerMerwe

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Director of Engineering, Paystack - performance engineering · C++ · RocksDB

Paystack
Cape Town, South Africa
12+ years experience
University of Ghana
Open to work
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Overview

I lead distributed databases at Paystack in Cape Town. Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 49 million requests a day. Most at home with performance engineering and C++. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Skills
Rustperformance engineeringC++RocksDB
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 4 months

Next role: Software Engineer in payments, Cape Town or hybrid

12 years in distributed databases. Strongest at RocksDB and C++. Serving notice now.

Cape Town, South Africaperformance engineeringc++rust
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2022 - Present
    Paystack · 4 yr 1 mo · Cape Town, South Africa
  2. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
    EY · 1 yr 5 mo · Cape Town, South Africa
  3. Software Engineer
    Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
    Deloitte · 3 yr 3 mo · Cape Town, South Africa
  4. Software Engineer
    Dec 2014 - Jan 2018
    Microsoft · 3 yr 1 mo · Cape Town, South Africa

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Education

  1. University of Ghana
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2010 - 2014

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