FROM STUDENT
TO SYSTEMS
INTEGRATOR.
Before AWS and production deployments, there was a classroom in Cape Town. Life Choices combined professional life coaching with hands-on software development — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL.
The person in that classroom didn't know he'd be managing cloud infrastructure for global insurance platforms a few years later. He just knew he wasn't stopping.
The internship was the first time the work was real — real clients, real deadlines, real bugs. I learned Selenium, JIRA, TestRail. But more than tools, I learned what happens when you miss a defect.
This built the systematic thinking I carry into every deployment today.
Joining Equisoft as a Developer was the pivot point — Oracle OIPA, JSreports, Freemarker, REST APIs on enterprise insurance platforms serving clients across Africa and North America.
Now I own end-to-end infrastructure operations — AWS, Ansible, NGINX/Lua WAF, Grafana, Azure DevOps CI/CD on globally distributed insurance platforms.
When the senior engineer was away, I covered everything — investigated a production MuleSoft gateway failure, deployed services across all environments, received director recognition.
From a Cape Town classroom to enterprise cloud. That's the story.
