Who Am I?
Before that I built and ran the crawling and processing platform at Ringier South Africa — user-configurable pipelines that scrape, process and distribute market intelligence in near real time, in C#, Python, Vue and React on AWS.
I started out in industrial software: a refinery modernisation that replaced a dozen standalone tools with one platform wired to scales, label printers and PLCs, and a safety and operational-intelligence suite deployed to twelve mining sites that won the 2018 Health and Safety Software Award.
I am a full-stack developer by training (.NET, SQL, TypeScript) who now spends most of the day in data: pipelines, extraction quality, and the unglamorous work of making a crawl dependable at scale.
Currently Senior .NET Full Stack Developer at Ringier South Africa, based in Flic en Flac, Mauritius. The projects page is the short version of all of this.
Location
Flic en Flac, Black River, MauritiusHome Language
English (Strong/Fluent: Reading, Written, Spoken – Business Level)Other Languages
Afrikaans (Native: Reading, Written, Spoken – Business Level)Tertiary: MCSD
2013 to 2015 at WW.IT-IQ Training & SolutionsHigh School: Matric (Grade 12)
2008 to 2012 at High School LydenburgSenior .NET Full Stack Developer
2022 to present · Ringier South AfricaOwner of the crawling and processing platform behind Ringier's marketplaces data: user-configurable pipelines that scrape, process and distribute market intelligence in near real time (C#, Python, AWS, Vue, React, Scrapy). Since 2026, an LLM-powered crawling system inside Palantir Foundry — identification, extraction and pagination across up to 5,000 company websites a day, on Foundry Pipelines, Datasets and Workshop applications.
.NET Full Stack Software Developer
From 2015 till 2022 at BlueMonday PTY (LTD)While working at Blue Monday, I worked on various business solutions for clients and internal tools and systems. I gained experience in various web technologies including Angular, Ionic, Blazor.NET and backend technologies like ASP.NET Web API, WCF and NodeJS.
Student Developer
From 2013 till 2015 at WW.IT-IQ Training & SolutionsWhile studying, I worked on programs assigned to me by my lecturers and other programs I thought businesses/people could or would like to use, as well as projects commissioned by clients.
- MCSD – Microsoft® Certified Solutions Developer – Web Applications, including HTML5, ASP.Net MVC, Windows Azure (Cloud Development)
- MCSD - Microsoft® Certified Solutions Developer – App Builder
- Microsoft® Certified SQL Specialist
- Microsoft® Certified Professional
- Microsoft® Certified Technology Associate – Networking Fundamentals
- Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist – Accessing Data
- Microsoft® Certified Specialist – C# & HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript
- Go - The Complete Guide - Udemy
- The Complete Python Developer - Udemy
- The Complete Prompt Engineering for AI Bootcamp (2025) - Udemy
- .NET
- C#
- ASP.NET
- Blazor
- Python
- Go (GoLang)
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- SQL
- MongoDB
- ElasticSearch
- Redis
- Angular
- Vue
- React
- Node.js
- Palantir Foundry
- Foundry Pipelines & Datasets
- LLM Extraction & Prompting
- Web Scraping (Scrapy, Playwright, Puppeteer)
- Distributed Systems
- Data Modelling
- Docker
- CI/CD
- AWS
- Azure
- Linux
- Architecture
