Gauteng, South Africa
4 years Full Stack developer

CebolenkosiShezi.

Associate Software Developer.
From financial systems to mobile experiences.

I build full-stack software with a focus on performance, reliability and the details that make it a pleasure to use.

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// A little about the developer
const developer = {
  name: "Cebolenkosi Shezi",
  role: "Software Developer",
  yearsExperience: 4,
  focus: [
   "Fintech",
   "Full-stack development",
   "Performance"
  ],
  mindset: "Keep improving"
};
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IN MY TOOLKITTypeScript/Angular/React Native/C++/SQL/Docker
01 / Selected work

Systems with a purpose.

Explore GitHub ↗
02 /Professional work: Fraud Risk Management

Tazama Monitoring Service

Checking the stability of Tazama and making dropped cases visible through detection and reporting.

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Project notes

Developed as part of the Tazama product work, the monitoring service checks system stability, identifies cases that were dropped and reports them for investigation.

03 /Professional work: Open-source contribution

Tazama

Fraud detection where reliability matters. Contributing to a fraud-risk engine that processes ISO-standard financial messages.

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Project notes

My contribution spans feature development, maintenance, benchmarking and reliability improvements, working alongside the open-source community through my role at Sybrin.

04 /Professional work: Hyper-Automation

Enterprise rule management

Making complex business rules easier to navigate, edit and maintain through a unified application.

AngularFinancial WorkflowsSQLSybrin
Project notes

Recent work includes schema-aware editors, workflow navigation, search, validation and concurrency checks over existing rule configurations. Internal implementation details remain private.

05 /Professional work: Hyper-Automation

Integrated Workflows

Bank based solution for workflow of every day bank operations like Account opening, Remittances and RTLoans .

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Project notes

Banking workflows covering account opening, remittances and RTLoans, with a focus on everyday operations and client support.

06 /Private: In development

Orbit

A mobile social experience, from everyday feeds to live conversations. Built with Expo, Supabase and real-time media.

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Project notes

A side project covering profiles, photo and video posts, feeds, live lobbies and broadcast rooms. Recent development focuses on Android builds, map integration and the mobile experience.

Off the clock / On the screen

Built out of curiosity.

Four passion projects. A closer look at the journeys inside each app.

Also building / Venu — a private project focused on maintainability and developer experience.

02 / Experience

Built through real work.

Sybrin

APR 2023 — PRESENT

Software Developer Associate

Contributing to Tazama and its productization as the Fraud Management System, alongside operational monitoring and internal applications.

  • Contribute features and maintenance to the Tazama open-source fraud engine.
  • Build fraud-report analysis and workflows to dispute or confirm risk assessments in the Fraud Management System.
  • Support configuration management through Rule Manager.
  • Work on the Tazama Monitoring Service to check stability and identify and report dropped cases.
  • Deliver frontend and backend capabilities alongside the product team.
  • Profile bottlenecks, build benchmarks and validate improvements.
  • Support containerised services, CI/CD workflows and Kubernetes manifests.

ICEP

JAN 2022 — JAN 2023

Software Developer Intern

Built Angular and Node.js web features with relational data stores, connected backend services to frontend flows, and developed testing and software delivery skills within a team.

03 / About & toolkit

Curious by default.
Practical by design.

01 / Development

TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, React Native, Node.js and C++.

02 / Data & performance

SQL Server, PostgreSQL, ArangoDB, Redis and Valkey. Profiling and repeatable benchmarks.

03 / Delivery & testing

Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Git, Postman, Newman and Bruno.

A foundation in software.
Always learning from the build.

My work moves between enterprise systems and personal products. I care about maintainable code, measurable performance and an experience that feels considered.

National Diploma in Information Technology
Software Development
Tshwane University of Technology · 2022

AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
AWS Academy Graduate · 2022

English / isiZulu / Sepedi

04 / Get in touch

Let’s build something useful.

For engineering opportunities and project conversations.

Download my resume ↓

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