About
There is no substitute for hard work - Truly a statement I live by and something those I work with can attest to. Keeping that I mind, what does this statement mean exactly? For me, it is a drive to create, a drive to be faced with a challenge and finding the most creative and effective way to solve it. From the very start of my studies, I had a true interest and fascination in the field of information technology and I'm very happy to be finding myself in a market that is constantly changing, improving and innovating.
Technology Architect.
Currently working as an Architect and Senior developer, however I have other cross-cutting duties as well.
- Birthday: 1 April 1994
- Website: www.marnussteyn.co.za
- Availability: None (Employed)
- City: Cape Town, South Africa
- Age: 30
- Degree: BSc Honors
- Email: steynmarnus@yahoo.com
Get to know me: I find myself in an interesting dichotomy - The way the world works and the technical intricacies of the digital age fascinate me to no end. On the other end I also greatly enjoy the more subjective and artful things in life; Bit of an audiophile (lies, big audiophile), enjoy masterfully crafted films, Photography and stone masonry (the marble statues kind, like I swear those people are magicians) - All that to say, I have an appreciation for anyone that creates and crafts unapologetically.
Skills
Below is a high level overview of the skills I currently posses and practice on a regular basis
Programming Languages & Frameworks
Tools, Platforms and Cloud Services
Resume
I am currently employed at TriFour Health, a Med-Tech and HIS company servicing a wide range of healthcare organisations across Africa.
Professional Experience
Developer | Developer Team Lead
2024 - Present
TriFour Health, Cape Town
- Architect
- Senior Developer
- CI/CD
- R&D of new Technologies and methodologies for team
- Team Lead
Developer | Developer Team Lead
2018 - 2024
PayFast by Network(Formally PayGate), Cape Town
- Architect Promotion
- Development Team Lead Promotion
- Managing new internal company treasury project
- Certified ScrumMaster accredited from SCRUM ALLIANCE®
- Full Stack Mirco-Service Developer
- iOS/Android Mobile Developer
- Experience in Fin-Tech Topics like 3D-Secure, Auth/Settlement Processes etc
iOS Developer | .Net Back-End Developer
2017 - 2018
Digiata, Cape Town
- iOS Development of Timekeeping app with local storage and cloud sync
- Back-End Development of .Net enterprise application, focusing on test automation with Selenium
- Sales Force Developer Training
Junior Fullstack Developer
2016 - 2017
MicroZone, Bloemfontein
- Angular JS front-end developer
- .Net MVC back-end developer with experience in SignalR and MSSQL
- Ionic Hybrid Mobile Development
Education
Bachelor of Science Honors - Computer Science
2017 - 2018
University of the Free-Sate
I Completed my BSc Honours in Computer Science and Informatics at the University of the Free State and opted to complete it in one year where the option to do studies and year project over 2 years.
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
2013 - 2016
University of the Free-Sate
Completed my BSc Degree in Computer Science and Informatics at the University of the Free State. I Also participated at the CHPC Cluster Computing Competition in 2014.
Matric
2008 - 2012
Kimberley, Northern Cape
Received my matric certificate from Adamantia High School in Kimberley, Northern Cape. Even then I was enthusiastic about I.T and helped out int the computer literacy class.
Current Job Breakdown
I have worked for TriFour for just over 1 and a half year now. Since then I have been privileged to work with a very unique tech stack called Intersystems Iris.
It is a one-stop-shop product where WebServer, Database, Messaging, Flows, Data Warehouseing and everything in between lives on one platform.
When I joined I had to find my feet using this one of a kind platform, but have now settled into what is offers and yet continuing to learn about it everyday.
My day to day includes drawing up the technical documents to act as a foundation we iterate over with the larger technical team. I also support
the development teams on day to day technical impediments, learning and growth. I often develop the scaffolding of new applications for develpovers to use
as the jumping-off point for critical projects. I often R&D new ventures to see what is possible and viable from a technical perspective and weight up if buying or building
is our best option. I will also consult with our internal team and clients to establish what is possible and how to navigate navitage the solution's technical aspects.
Cloud Services - AWS
Below is a more detailed breakdown of the particular AWS Services I have worked with and get to use for my day to day development tasks.
AWS IAM
I use IAM to setup roles, permissions and policies for AWS resources to interact and talk to each other. The IAM experience I have relates to the rest of the services shown below.
AWS Lambda
A great portion of the work I do for the microservice system we built relies on lambdas. Setting them up and deploying to them is part of my daily tool belt.
AWS EC2
I have connected to many a EC2 server to test and use for beta environment purposes, but it's usually not my responsibility to maintain and set them up so there I have room to grow.
AWS RDS
Setting up basic RDS instances for use as a MySQL or MSSQL Server is something I've done quite a few times. I also know how to use the basic monitoring tools for the database instances.
AWS S3
At various points in the solutions we have built persistent file storage has been a requirement, and be it as part of a process for temp storage or for more permanent fiscal purposes, S3 is a service I come across often.
AWS SQS
SQS is a great interconnect for services in AWS without having to setup 3'rd party queue software - thus it is a great combination with lambdas for microservice processes. I have used it extensive in my projects.
AWS API Gateway
For any of our API needs, we have chosen to off load the web sever duties to API Gateway and focus out time on the actual logic, thus saving a lots of time. API Gateway still has all the means to manage everything from authentication to custom rules with no code required.
AWS ECS Fargate
For one of the new Scheme Tokenisation service we built, I used ECS Fargate in order to simplify the hosting and rapid scaling of the various applications driving the service. Simply having to dicdate rules and boundries and not have to worry about provisioning and scaling actions have proved to be of great benefit.
AWS Event Bridge
Automation and scheduling is a big part of what we do and Event Bridge made it easy for us to achieve just that with all the services we use, it just plugs in.
Contact
Like to chat or see what I'm up to career wise these days? Leave me a message below!
Location:
Cape Town, South Africa
Email:
steynmarnus@yahoo.com