payments / fintech · Nov 2025 – Present
Payments infrastructure for a vehicle-finance platform
- Django
- React
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- AWS ECS
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
The problem
A South African vehicle-finance platform was running on a single EC2 instance — no redundancy, no room to scale — with a delivery roadmap of new features stalling behind that infrastructure risk.
What I did
- Leading a team of 3 engineers, migrated the platform from single-instance EC2 to AWS ECS (Fargate), eliminating the single point of failure and enabling horizontal scaling.
- Extended and standardised CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions across UAT and production environments.
- Designed and specced 10+ new features forming the client’s delivery roadmap, working closely with them to translate manual back-office processes into platform features.
- Currently leading development of a Paystack → Sage Intacct integration to centralise customer payment and contract management.
Outcome
Infrastructure that scales horizontally instead of falling over, and a payments integration in flight that removes a manual reconciliation step between two systems that previously didn’t talk to each other.