Sipho Hlophe

Midrand, Gauteng, ZA
  • I am a passionate software engineering professional with over a decade of experience in developing robust MVPs and scalable enterprise-grade software solutions. My expertise spans various aspects of software engineering, and I am dedicated to mentoring and coaching the next generation of engineers through graduate programs. I strive to cultivate a culture of responsibility and leadership among aspiring engineers, ensuring they become honest and proud professionals in the field.
  • I am deeply passionate about technology and dedicate my spare time to learning new technologies. Skilled in implementing processes for technical delivery and serving as an agile coach within my team. Additionally, I chair and lead the Dotnet Community of Practice within my department, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement among my peers.

Experience

Capitec Business Bank

Technical Lead
  • Responsibilities
  • I coach and guide my team on the Agile framework and ceremonies and software development best practices.
  • I facilitate sprint planning and reviews, so we always hit our deliverables efficiently.
  • I remove blockers
Jul 2025 - On going

Standard Bank Group

Software Engineer
  • Responsibilities
  • I mentor and coach team members and graduates.
  • I translate complex business requirements into simplified technical specifications easy enough for business and engineers to understand and execute.
  • I coach and guide my team on the Agile framework and ceremonies and software development best practices.
  • I facilitate sprint planning and reviews, so we always hit our deliverables efficiently.
  • Cloud Migration Lead
  • - facilitate the cloud migration and operations for payments workflow system.
  • - solution roadmap orchestrator
  • Fullstack software engineer
  • - fontend (C#, Blazor Server, MudBlazor)
  • - backend (C#, dotnet 8, Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection, Redis, SignalR, Mediator, OpenAPI with FastEndpoints, EFCore)
  • - data (MSSQL, Oracle DB, IBM MQ)
  • - testing (XUnit, NSubstitute, Bogus, TestContainers, PlayWrite)
  • DevSecOps
  • - Git with GitLab
  • - Windows GitLab Runners for build and deploy
  • - AWS
  • - docker (Seq, IBM MQ, MSSQL, mailhog, Redis)
Jan 2022 - Jun 2025

BetterLife Group LTD

Senior Web Developer
  • Financial sector fullstack developer
  • frontend (Angular, Xamarin, Flutter)
  • backend (C#, .Net Core)
  • testing (XUnit, Moq, SpecFlow)
  • IoC (Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection)
  • data (RavenDB, MSSQL)
  • devOps (Git with GitHub, goCI, OctopusDeploy)
  • docker (RabbitMQ, RavenDB, MSSQL)
  • coaching dev teams on tools, techniques and processes
  • Side Projects
  • - Lead Relations (Blazor, dotnet 5, GraphQL, Neo4J, Docker)
  • - Lead Manager Client (Blazor, dotnet 5)
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021

iPlatform Global

Senior Web Developer | Technical Lead
  • Insurance sector fullstack developer
  • frontend (KnockoutJS, RAZOR3, JavaScript ES5)
  • backend (C#, ASP.Net MVC 4, NHibernate, .Net Core 2, Topshelf Apps)
  • testing (XUnit, Moq)
  • data (MSSQL, TSQL, XML, JSON)
  • devOps (Git with BitBucket, TeamCity, OctopusDeploy)
  • docker (RabbitMQ, MSSQL)
  • technical lead
  • coaching dev teams with tools, techniques and processes
  • release manager, orchestrating Sprint builds from Staging to Production
  • Side Projects
  • - Entity Relation Manager (ReactJS, GraphQL, Apollo, NodeJS, Neo4J [cypher], Google API, pm2, Node_alpine multi-stage docker builds)
  • - Entity Relation Manager Rev 2 (Python, GraphQL, Neo4J [cypher], Google API)
  • - Quality Control Manager (Angular, ngxs, GraphQL, Apollo, Strapi [SQLite])
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

Derivco

Web Developer
  • Fullstack developer at an online entertainment sector
  • frontend (AngularJS, Angular 2, NodeJS, TypeScript, JavaScript ES6)
  • backend (C#, WebAPI, ASP.Net MVC 3, EF6-CodeFirst)
  • testing (NUnit, NSubstitute)
  • data (MSSQL, TSQL, JSON, XML)
  • devOps (Git with GitLab, TeamCity, OctopusDeploy)
  • coaching dev with tools, techniques and processes (mostly through Confluence)
  • side quests: Content Streaming Client (NodeJS, express, Angular 4, TypeScript, pm2, NGINX)
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017

Hollywoodbets

Web Developer
  • Fullstack developer at a sportbook and betting sector
  • frontend (JQuery, KnockoutJS, AngularJS, JavaScript ES5)
  • backend (ASP.Net, ASMX, C#, NHibernate)
  • data (MSSQL, TSQL)
  • devOps (Git with Mercurial)
Mar 2013 - Jun 2015

Nedgroup Life

Support Developer
  • Fullstack developer at the insurance sector
  • frontend (Teleforms, OnBase)
  • backend (C#, VB, Mapper-BIS)
  • data (Business Information Server[BIS])
  • Perform Disaster Recovery procedures of Nedgroup Life during DR test sessions
Jan 2009 - Feb 2013

Nedbank

Desktop Support Engineer
  • Help end-users in the organization with their computer related issues as soon as possible
  • Install new workstations for the end-users in the organization
  • Troubleshooting network issues for users
? 2009 - ? 2009

Education

MANCOSA

Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology Management
    2024 - 2024

    Durban University of Technology

    National Diploma in Information Technology
    • Information Systems
    • Development Software
    2005 - 2007

    Bytes Technology Group

    National Certificate
    • Server Administration
    • Network Administration
    • Security
    • Desktop Support
    2008 - 2008

    Skills

    Workflow
    • Agile Development & Scrum
    • Code First API Design & Development
    • Working with Cross Functional Teams
    • Documentation & Developer Testing
    • Good Knowledge of JIRA & Confluence
    • Good Knowledge of General DevOps
    • Good Knowledge of AWS
    • Load & Performance Testing using Artillery.io
    • Docker Developer Experience
    Programming Languages & Tools
    Visual Studio
    Visual Studio Code
    HTML5
    CSS3
    TypeScript
    GraphQL
    dotnet
    C#
    Blazor
    MSSQL Server
    Postgres
    Redis
    Rabbit MQ
    Kafka
    Postman
    Auth0
    GitLab
    GitHub
    Git
    JIRA
    Confluence
    Docker
    IIS
    Netlify
    Azure DevOps
    Github Actions
    Octopus Deploy

    Interests

    Software Passion
    Software Passion

    I love to tinker latest tech trends and frameworks. I'm very fond of Blazor.

    Motorsport Passion
    Motorsport Passion

    Formula 1 (#LH44), GT World Challenge (GT3), WEC 24hr Spa, 24hr Le Mans

    PCMR
    PCMR

    #1440pGaming #RYZEN Custom Built Computer Rigs... I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, Aorus X570 Pro, XFX Radeon RX6800XT Black, G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32GiB DDR4 @ 3700MHz

    Future Plans

    dotnet + C#
    70%

    To specialize dotnet lts and C#.net, by creating more pet projects solving various questions, currently working on a lead solution.

    Blazor
    80%

    To specialize in writing clean and performant Blazor apps, still a long way to go.